It was Elizabeth and Jane who met up this time, as you will see. If anyone else has some work to send in and would like comments on, please do!
ELIZABETH said :- "I think both Jane and I enjoyed drawing together in Wimbledon although it was difficult but interesting as we went to Debenhams’s café and it has large windows with reflections and views over Wimbledon so had something interesting for us both. I continued my theme of people and also reflections. However the Daffodils and swan were done as an experiment with the thought of experimenting with light against dark and dark against light."
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| Elizabeth 1 daffodils & swan |
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| Elizabeth 2 Daffodils & Swan |
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| Elizabeth Station Waiting Room |
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| Elizabeth Wimbledon Reflections |
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| Elizabeth Mother & Child |
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| Elizabeth Wimbledon Vies |
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| Wimbledon |
What a super set, Elizabeth. Unfortunately, some of them are a bit bleached out - I've tried to boost the delicate pencil lines as much as possible. Just looking at the window/reflections ones first, I particularly like the Station Waiting room drawing.
That piece is lovely also, because of the story it implies. There's the conversation going on between the two silhouetted figures, and that's contrasted against the isolation of the figure reading. It's a great study in body language, and the human condition. MORE PLEASE! I think you really need to use your skills - drawn and compositional - to tell these stories now, so we become a fly on the wall to your groups of people.
Then, your daffodil and swan pictures are an interesting exploration. I don't know whether the contrasting pair in no. 1 were intended to remain together as one piece, or were 2 paintings done on the same piece of paper, but I think they work really well as a whole unit, especially as the horizontal lines follow through.
As ever Elizabeth, you have triumphed. see what you can do by way of development of these drawings?
Then we have a submission from JANE :- "Elisabeth chose the venue, because she thought I would like the structures, which if course I did.
It was an interesting venue and I would like to go there for our next visit on 5th April. It has great possibilities for me. Though I am finding it difficult to work on my recent drawings while I am printing the Wellcome Institute prints and other happenings keep cropping up!"
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| Jane 2 - reflections in and out |
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| Jane 4 - inside, but missed a panel! |
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| Jane 5 - trying out ideas |
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| Jane 6 - last drawing of inside |
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| Jane 3 - inside and out |
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| Jane 1 reflection inside looking out |
Yes Jane, very difficult to open up new possibilities when your head is still full of the current work!! However, you've ended up with a very strong set here, which will wait patiently until you're ready!
I like them all, and they have a great strength as a set. Lots of exploring and trying things out.
Your BIG challenge here is going to be what you do about the immense amount of perspective. You could not have chosen a more tricky subject from that point of view!
Originally we explored the possibilities of flattening the perspective, so that you could maximise the abstract possibilities. However, you showed us all another way, with your Wellcome drawings. That was to include a certain amount of perspective, but skew it. Your stairs became a sort of flattened ribbon, and yet the actual steps were solid. Your tiled floor had an overly steep perspective, which played with our sense of where we were in relation to the space. So.......... those are the sort of games you want to try and play. Acknowledge that it is a 3D space, but then squidge it and squash, and twist it, and flatten or over-emphasise it - and create a new reality.
Phew - good luck to you!! It's a difficult game to play, but has great possibilities.
