Today's task at Morley was drawing dried out buddleia flowers, using three different methods of drawing - outline with pencil, shape with small circular movements of the pencil, using ink and a brush. I was Ok with the results of the pencil drawings, less happy with the ink and brush.
Pencil
Ink and brush
I restored my artistic sanity with a visit to the Grayson Perry exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. I thoroughly enjoyed this and the pieces seemed very familiar having watched the first two episodes of his current series on Channel 4. I particularly liked the way the pieces are placed on a path through the existing collection in the National Portrait Gallery, rather than all placed together in one exhibition room. This made me look at some of the permanent collection in a different way, particularly the collection of black busts in room 21, the display of suffragette photographs and articles in room 31, and the portrait of the Bronte sisters. As ever, I did ponder who does the embroidery on Grayson Perry's hand-embroidered pieces. In this exhibition, the number of French knots on the piece about the Ulster loyalists, " Britain is Best" is mind-boggling, and I don't think these can be done by machine. The Scottish pedant in me couldn't help but notice the mis-spelling of Hogmanay on the tapestry " Comfort Blanket", but perhaps this is deliberate. On until 15th March 2015 and, perhaps because the pieces are distributed throughout several galleries, not too crowded, and it is completely free.
Must go! I'm a devoted GP fan, which he'd probably hate, but it really do rate him as an artist and a person. He'd be a guest at my dream dinner party.
ReplyDeleteShould have also said I think those drawings are fab.
ReplyDeleteMy phone won't let me see those sketches any bigger than thumbnail but they look great to me
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of doing the outline drawing first. no matter what you think of your drawings (and I think they are wonderful), better to have done them than not to have.
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