jamie o'meara

a collection of life drawings including the still life model drawings from sylvias class on thursday

Life drawings from Thursday

a collection of life portraits from over the course of the week, from various spots around the college and the city.

I was recommended to look at the glassine ink and oil paint drawings by Eric Fischl, who would layer different drawings over eachother to create the composition. I'm really interested in the collage-like visual effect of his works.

This week I was interested in continuing the theme of life ink drawing from last week. I created ink drawings of the objects we have been using for this project so far, aswell as a life drawing session out in peoples park.

On Thursday afternoon we created life drawing portraits using charcoal and ink. I drew the poses quickly so I tried experimenting with line and shape as I redrew them over and over, getting more abstract as it developed.

The painting exercise was to capture the composition of our chosen thumbnail through the basic shapes and colours of it rather than the detail.

I did not have much difficulty bridging my three elective areas as I primarily worked in 2D so my initial drawings and sketches were relevant throughout the entire project. I did discover that I enjoyed different elements of the electives I was not expecting to.

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a swiss-german painter highly influenced by expressionism and surrealism. i was suggested to look at several artists and found i was most interested in Klee's work because of his use of colour and thin lined illustration contrasted with his patchwork style colours.

the first and third painting were inspired by the imagery of the folded boot, while the second was a more abstract piece trying to resemble foot prints and track marks.

I was recommended to research this artist and I was particularly interested in his use of thick brushstrokes to depict light and dark contrasting tones in the composition of his pieces.

I also took part in the life painting exercise on Thursday morning. I struggled alot with the time limitations because it made it difficult to capture the form of the model properly but I think the finished piece came out decent enough.

This is my work from the second week of print, including my wood block prints. We missed a day of work due to the bank holiday, so I only managed to make one woodblock print this week, unfortunately. It was inspired by a drawing I created during my fashion elective which featured lots of different lines that translated interestingly into the print.

This is my first week of print work. We used a process called electro-etching to create the prints. I further developed my initial drawings of the shoe I used in my fashion elective to create print designs.

My completed work for the 2 week fashion elective, including illustration boards with my primary research and drawings, a mood board with secondary research and inspiration images, a textile of pvc fabric sewn into ruffles aswell as my 3 final designs in colour.

https://moi-meme-moitie.com/