Failed drawing
We had a critique in life drawing today, on a homework assignment in which I was entirely frustrated of my results. I chose a paper that was too dark for it to make sense, and the picture I was doing was entirely uninteresting in the way that I was doing it. The assignment was to find a master drawing or painting of a well-known artist and copy it, altering it in some way. I chose Watts' "Hope" and decided to mess with the colors. The way I approached the whole thing was far too literal, there are so many more interesting things I could have tried that I just didn't think of at the time.....
However, it was late last night and I didn't have the heart to start over, so I just went with it, trying to push the colors -- but it just ended up looking like I did them wrong instead of actually making them different... and it just ended up falling short on so many levels.
I made a few adjustments after the critique,
i.e. I scribbled the black charcoal lines and red chalk lines all over it. 9_9
And now that I have my camera and its pictures next to the computer where I can actually load them....
This was just one flat of about 7 flats of tiles. These are tiles that have already been cut from slabs (clearly) and have had some time to dry so that they're closer to the leather-hard stage. They form cool patterns when stacked on the boards.
Finished with one flat, after a hard night's work. Each tiles had to be beveled on all four sides, (top and bottom) -- I used one of those fake credit cards that you get in the mail... they have the perfect flexibility for this kind of thing -- and have their flat side smoothed (which only took like 2 swipes). Then I drilled 3/16" holes (probably 50% are off center, haha) and used a countersink drill bit to create the bevel around the holes.
The tiles made a pretty neat effect on the canvas-covered tables: the dark patches are where a rolled slab of clay was laid out, (moisture from the clay dampened the canvas slightly) and the grid-like lines are where I cut the tiles, leaving a ghost of where they used to be.
All of the tiles are cut, beveled and drilled now - I just have to dip them all in terra sigillata and fire them.
However, it was late last night and I didn't have the heart to start over, so I just went with it, trying to push the colors -- but it just ended up looking like I did them wrong instead of actually making them different... and it just ended up falling short on so many levels.
I made a few adjustments after the critique,
i.e. I scribbled the black charcoal lines and red chalk lines all over it. 9_9
And now that I have my camera and its pictures next to the computer where I can actually load them....
This was just one flat of about 7 flats of tiles. These are tiles that have already been cut from slabs (clearly) and have had some time to dry so that they're closer to the leather-hard stage. They form cool patterns when stacked on the boards.
Finished with one flat, after a hard night's work. Each tiles had to be beveled on all four sides, (top and bottom) -- I used one of those fake credit cards that you get in the mail... they have the perfect flexibility for this kind of thing -- and have their flat side smoothed (which only took like 2 swipes). Then I drilled 3/16" holes (probably 50% are off center, haha) and used a countersink drill bit to create the bevel around the holes.
The tiles made a pretty neat effect on the canvas-covered tables: the dark patches are where a rolled slab of clay was laid out, (moisture from the clay dampened the canvas slightly) and the grid-like lines are where I cut the tiles, leaving a ghost of where they used to be.
All of the tiles are cut, beveled and drilled now - I just have to dip them all in terra sigillata and fire them.