Victoria & Albert and Charles Emes project.
During my visit to the Victoria&Albert museum I looked at light, exploring tone and how the texture of the surface influences the light.
Images of V&A.
Quick 2-min sketches, keeping my eye on the form in front of me, not lifting my pencil/fine-liner off the page, focusing on the form of the sculptures.
Exploring tone with quick sketches, filling in with grey tone then shading in areas that are darker and then using a rubber removing pigment where there are highlights, bringing the texture of the surface out.
Exploring using charcoal & willow charcoal and white ink against a grey background. I used the material I collected from my visit to the Victoria & Albert.
Experimentation with ink. In the image on the right i used wax to show the light tone, unlike the previous technique I used, I
Images of hallway (Not at the V&A).
In these pieces I looked at tone, as i had explored at the V&A. I experimented with frotage and still life drawing, looking at how frotage has the opposite effect to what the eye picks up, the eye picks up lighter tones from objects closest to us and darker tones from whats further away from us. Contrary to what the eye does, frotage picks up darker tones from whats closest to us and imprints it onto a surface.
Here I explored the use of pressure to create tone.
Frotage from the hallway, i painted a brick pattern onto the image on the right to demonstrate the layering or textures.
I used sand on the wet paint to add texture and create depth similar to frotage, although the colour of the sand is darker than the paint, it stands out.
In the image on the left you can see the Charles Emes bird and round form taken from a wire object in the hall way. i quickly sketched the two, focusing more on the form rather than tone.
Here I experimented with negative space looking at how we can use this to create depth, without shading to create tone.
Following the concept of darker and lighter tones being used to create depth I experimented using colour.
I created cut outs using the darker and lighter shades. The on on the right is of a sculpture i saw at the V&A, using colour, the left is the angle I saw and sketched at the museum where i used the sheets of frotage i had made to create it.
