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Plan of action
This is the plan I am going to take, I am going to do more drawings of the animals from the museums I am going to figure out where the animals are going to go on my painting once I […]
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Inspirational quote
There is a quote that I found by Henry David Thoreau; The world is but a canvas to our imagination even though this quote is about life, it inspires my work, my art is the world in this sense. I […]
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I need to think about…
I have been working on more drawings for my painting, I am still not sure where all the animals are going to go but i have a few ideas on where to put some. The parrot and the peacock I’ve […]
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Materials
I thought I would make a post about the materials I use within my work and why. DRAWINGS: I use coloured pencils on A4 paper. The coloured pencils I use are by Faber Castell as they blend well together and […]
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Untitled blog post from "Art, Museums and everything in between"
When I was talking with my tutor, we discussed doing a coloured pencil drawing of my final idea as I have already drawn the animals in coloured pencil, she said it was worth thinking about, which I did and have […]
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Final Painting Part 2…
I decided to paint on a canvas size of 60″ x 45″ I wanted to work larger then i have done before but not to big that you wouldn’t be able to see all the different elements within the painting. […]
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Final Painting…
I’m now about to start my final painting yet I’ve still got a few things to decide, mainly the size of it. I know I want to do a large painting but I’m not sure how big, I’m going to […]
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Ideas
From looking at the artist and my drawings i decided i wanted to progress from how i did my work before, in my previous project i only painted animals but this time i wanted to add scenery to my paintings […]
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Drawings
When I first start a new project I start with doing a few drawings of my main subjects, in this case animals, as I wont yet know how the final outcome will look but the animals i draw i know […]
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Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau i have come to realise is a big inspiration for me, i have looked at his work for years now, back when i was doing my GCSE’s i used one of his paintings in my work as i […]
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Naive Art
My work has been called naive which at first I thought was a bad thing as I had never heard the term before but the more I looked into it I realised that it wasn’t and I had heard of […]
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
I discovered the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto who is a photgrapher. His photos of the dioramas from the Natural History Museum in New York, inspired me. I Love the way the animals look alive and even though i like working in colour, […]