Assignment 7.2 - Perspective Collage

 I decided to address one and two point perspective in my collage drawing through a room-type layout and an emerging cylindrical shape. I went for an industrial feel to the landscape and used old book pages (for the yellowing) and black and white images of people to give the piece and aged feel. 

Post update (April 6th):

    I’ve thought more about this piece and I think that it has something to do with the movement of time and industry. It has an old feel to it with the black and white photographs, aged book pages, and train tracks. Yet, the city is in colour, adding a more modern edge. The flowers growing out of the ladies head, the train tracks, and the telephone poles all have to do with movement (growth and travel). In this way the piece is talking about the change in industry and technology over time but in a nostalgic attitude towards the past.

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24” x 18” canvas

Collage using book pages, magazine cut outs, a round canvas, acrylic paint, sharpie, white gel pen, black construction paper, and washi tape.

Close ups:

Process:

Assignment 7.1 - Perspective studies

 One,two, and three point perspective:

One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

Three-Point perspective

Room drawings:

Room 1 - no straight edge

One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

Room 2 - with a straight edge

One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

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Assignment 6 - Ink Wash 50 drawings

Ink wash on 9” x 12” newsprint.

My first archive of portraits is referenced from old family photographs. I decided to compliment these with a second archive consisting of vintage clocks to represent the passage of time since the drawings are of my family and their friends from fairly long ago. I went with vintage clocks instead of modern clocks because they better fit the time frame that the family photos would have been taken. Each portrait has an associated clock that for one reason or another I felt suited the person I was drawing. I matched the backgrounds of these pairs. At the end I bound the drawings into a book in the order presented. All of the portraits were done before the clocks (the exception being portrait 1 and 12 since I chose to redo these ones at the end of all of the drawings) and then all the clocks were drawn in the order following the portraits.

Torn up pieces of newsprint white glued into ground.

Background done first. I used one of my back sheets, tore it up, and white glued it onto another sheet of newsprint.

Background drawn first, a light wash with some drips.

Background drawn first. Burnt holes in paper with lighter.

Background drawn first. I used one of the sheets that I had been placing underneath all my other drawings while working for this drawing.

These next ten are done on better quality drawing paper.

At the end I binded all of the drawings into a book using the 4-hole Japanese book binding technique. I made a front and back cover for the book out of the nicer drawing paper.

Front cover

Back cover

Side view

Reject collage in the style of Marlene Dumas (using first attempts at portraits 1 and 12)