I was inspired by the talk about drawing and materiality that Lucy gave at the beginning of the week, and I was intrigued by the work of Claude Heath. His uncompromised blind drawings of objects show the direct relationship between thinking and drawing. The use of different colours over the top of one another allows us to see the ‘journey’ that he has made around the object as his viewpoint has changed. In response to his work I decided to create a pair of drawings; one with my left hand and one with my right with each sheet of paper being attached to either side of a wall. Standing abreast of the wall I could then proceed to draw what I saw but with the response being from both hands at the same time. What I found really challenging was trying to direct my left hand, as it had the tendency of wanting to push the charcoal into and ‘through’ the wall whilst following curves. What surprised me were the similarities between both drawings. I thought that the right handed drawing would have dominated the marks made by the left hand, but this was not the case. Looking at the long exposure photographs I had taken yesterday, I also had the idea of filming the sculpture moving and then perhaps drawing what I saw; taking a line for a walk around the sculpture itself. Despite having the film in front of me to watch over as many times as I wanted, I found it difficult to make out the details of the sculpture on the screen. So instead I stood next to the sculpture and turned it myself as I was following different lines of interest around the piece. I translated this into a map-like drawing which spans a long thin piece of paper. I am really pleased with this drawing, something about its composition and the simplicity of the lines makes it very appealing to the eye. A resource that has really inspired me this week is a book called ‘Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing’ By Mick Maslen and Jack Southern. I hope that I can try out more of the exercises in this book aside from the few that we had already done with Glad, if not now then certainly later on in the term.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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