Starting last week with making my small installation I loosely considered composition, line and shapes when putting it together however didn’t want to overthink it to much. Then after taking some sketches of my own installation I quickly wanted to start looking at others installations and focus on which ones drew my attention and why.
From all the installations i think i took the most inspiration from the ones which included plants and larger curved forms such as the bananas and water bottle. These are my first sketches where i spent a couple of seconds to up-to 30mins on each of the drawings sticking to using a limited range of materials.
After my small crit and discussing what drawing I liked and felt were more successful I moved on to the next part of the task and used agin a limited use of materials and tried to think more about composition tone and texture.
I really look a liking to using the blue ink as i’m really drawn to colour and i think its a big part of my practice and how i like to communicate themes as well as for visual purposes. Despite this i think the most successful drawing from these is where is used a combination of charcoal and h2 pencil as i feel it created the best contrast in texture and side by side i think compliment each other. I have also discovered that i like having a one single larger line to create the overall shape and lead your eye around the paper.
At the end of the week for Environmental Drawing I took my sketchbook and drew more loose quick sketches up Carlton hill and walking up and down my streets as I enjoy working quite quick just using pencils and pen. I wanted to just get a sense of positive and negative space focusing mostly on my uses of line and how much I could communicate about the space in such a short amount of time. I think moving forward I want to experiment more with the surfaces i am working on and the type of media i’m using. I also want to scale up my drawings as i think the sense of movement is communicated better when i’m using my whole arm and body.
CHARLEY MILLAR ART 