Rose Wheeler

I loved looking through your blog posts as your drawings have a lot of technical skill and are quite detailed, I can see that you took time to focus on the textures of the things you were drawing from. The ‘Talking Colour’ task was really exciting to look through as you used lots of different mediums to draw with and so your outcomes are all very different to each other. I loved the painting of the lotus seedpod most, as the colours you used work together in combination really well and you have shown the different shapes and line inside the seedpod in detail. For the second task I thought your drawing of cracks in marker and hook line pen was really beautiful with all the different types of line and mark making. The style you used to create the mountains you were drawing is really interesting and abstract, and could translate really well onto fabric. You could develop these drawings into a 3D form by working with clay or something similar as I feel like you would be able to show the depth and appearance of the surface of the mountain well this way. For your ‘Ways of Seeing’ task you have used a good range of materials and techniques, although you could also experiment with colour more so that you have a more varied colour palette. You have been really productive in both the tasks as you have produced a range of high quality drawings that look at items and still lives from different points of perspective which will be good practice for developing you drawings in future projects.

For this task I used my drawings from ‘Talking Colours’ to help me create and develop patterns, I focused in on areas that I thought had interesting shapes or line movement and separated them out using Photoshop. I do like my outcomes from this task but I feel I could of taken my drawings further, and chosen to do more work that wasn’t digital. Although I never usually use a computer to create work, and so this task was definitely beneficial to my drawing as I now have some knowledge and experience of using Photoshop. I like the colour palette I was working with; I know I could have taken myself out of my comfort zone and gone further with my colour choices but as I was focusing more on pattern I felt I had more freedom with colour to pick shades I wanted, compared to the first task where I concentrated on narrating the colour in more detail. The task ‘Ways of Seeing/Talking Pattern’ helped me to look at the drawings I had already made in a new and different way, I saw the second task as a continuation and development of what I had already produced. I think I could have challenged myself more by drawing from new subject matter or drawing the same items as before but in new styles such as blind and continuous line drawing, this way I could have got a more diverse range of mark making.

The task ‘Talking Colours’ allowed me to concentrate on documenting colour which I really enjoyed and I tried to view the objects and sceneries, I was drawing as blocks of colour combinations. For the first few weeks I didn’t have many art materials with me and so I felt quite limited, I was worried all my drawings would end up looking similar, especially as the task was about experimenting and finding new ways to document what you can see. I focused on drawing objects around me and tried to use my drawings as a way to narrate my first weeks in London although as we went into lockdown what I was able to draw from became more mundane and I wish I had made more drawings from outside of my room. I prefer the drawings that have more detailed, sketched outlines over the more simplistic drawings I did that concentrate on narrating colour because I think they would translate better to fabric. If I had the opportunity to do the project again I would try to be much more experimental and creative with drawing tools and also make larger scale drawings so that I could have more aspects of work that I could collate and develop ideas from.