Friday, 14 November 2014

Museum Visit and Exhibition in Leeds University Library


Task 2 (museum group work): Identify unexpected/ useful outcomes of combining your drawings with other group members and having a focused task to achieve in a short time. 


Seeing other peoples styles and ways of working and interpreting the same museum exhibitions. Time restrictions also made us produce more work in a quicker time which meant the results were more trying to capture the essence and feel of the object/animal we were drawing than getting a perfect representation with loads of detail. Although I still tried to do this a bit in my work! The time restraints generally meant we could loosen up a bit, and I chose to use coloured pencils to do this so that I could record the colour without taking too long to draw all the individual feathers for example.

Comment on how Task 2 led you to repond to the gallery/museum. If this was different to previous visits, how and why?

It was similar to other school art trips where we have gone to look at a specific exhibition and drawn lots of different parts of it and displays. However compared to a leisurely trip to a museum this way meant we spent a lot more time scanning the displays for the best choices to draw from and spent a far longer amount of time in front of that specific thing rather than just walking around. I looked at each subject that I was drawing in depth aesthetically rather than its history and context which you would usually be reading and finding out about.

Task 1 (reportage): evaluate how the task has been approached in the time given.

I used coloured pencils to quickly capture the colours on the animals I was drawing and the whole team managed to come back with a similar amount of various sketches. I think we approached it well in the time given and we created a display on the window with all our sketches on. We decided to put them on the window because they were all drawn onto tracing paper which meant the light could come through and they could overlap effectively without masking out the image behind.

How could the practical aspect of CoP2 be extended to challenge your image-making further and enhance your essay line of enquiry?

  • Do observational drawing relating to my theme - historical and social (boys/war/social groups/ war letters… did they sound like the lads today?)
  • Try to do quicker and looser drawing- get ideas down and experiment!
  • Take sketch books with me. 
  • Visit the library.
  • Try different media.
  • Explore in my Sketchbook more.



Collaborative Group Work



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