LFGSS Art Club.

Gazelle-fowl, grazing

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Love these; was this in person or over Zoom?

Thank you :)

In person, in a local bar. It's just started up. I really hope the new lockdown measures don't scupper it.

I've done a few Zoom drawing sessions in lockdown but in person is much better. The POV doesn't change with Zoom, but those slight changes in POV when you are really in the room are both a challenge and part of what makes the drawing live (IMO)

Today’s effort.

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I like that

Nice!

@brokenbetty nice stuff
@Light_EDDed hands are so hard to draw thus is great
@AlexD really nice. I've been lazy recently and need to get a sketch book back up and running

Evening walk

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Some more hands

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nice work! Bottom right is especially good.

I bought an art anatomy book. And have been working through it.

The really break through was buying the black fine liners

Yeah, there's something to be said for building crosshatching and general shading skills with a pen, where you have less control with pressure. You'll go back to pencils and have better technique, giving you a broader palette of marks and tone that you can create.

I spent a lot of my degree using stupid stuff like twigs and glue guns to make drawings with, hoping that when I used a more traditional stylus i'd be shit hot at it. Having said that, i don't know how successful that was but it's a lot of fun stabbing at a large bit of paper with a leafy branch thats dripping with indian ink.

Is that a Fine Art degree? I spent mine making installations of out of found objects and at times just projections. The nearest I got to actual making stuff was making plinths! (Not quite true but very close). So when I join drawing classes I never mention I have an art degree, just that I used to do drawing at school.

I started out doing a degree called ‘drawing and applied arts’. It was pretty loose and the tutors were awful so I transferred to the illustration degree, which was great and I suddenly started actually learning things I wouldn’t have just learnt on my own anyway.

I do remember my time on DAA fondly though as I got to piss about so much more.

I had friends on the fine art course. Their output varied wildly, from amazing technically skilled painting and drawing, to upturned yoghurt pots on the floor and someone standing outside the campus canteen screaming.

Edit: I’m comfortable with seeing value in all of those examples of art, by the way! I seem to remember it was a Ski yoghurt. The most profound and symbolic of all yoghurts.

I had friends on the fine art course. Their output varied wildly, from amazing technically skilled painting and drawing, to upturned yoghurt pots on the floor and someone standing outside the campus canteen screaming.

I was totally in the second group :) It was the mid 90s, height of YBA and no one was doing actual skilled drawing and painting stuff (well, except in Scotland)

Things I did included:
a wardrobe lined with purple feathers and a breathing fan at the bottom
hanging bags of water over a goalpost for local footballers to burst
flooding my cubicle with salt water over the Easter break to grow salt crystals on wedding dresses
a 7 foot tall corridor of overlapping water bags. The best bags were Kwik Save ones so I got them to "sponsor" me by giving me free bags
a cast brick wall across an alcove in a warehouse with perspex bricks with swimmers projected into them. Cine film loops because LCD screens and video projectors were at least £thousands, probably 10s of thousands. After uni I had a "job" doing projections in nightclubs that were also cine film - I spent every saturday in fear in case they jammed and caught fire.
tape loops hidden in the drains outside uni buildings. Magnetic tapes and personal stereos, no MP3 players back then either!

And my degree show was doll house furniture that was not made by me.

Sounds awesome! I’d especially liked to have seen the salt crystal wedding dresses and the corridor.

I think the most conceptual I got was making an ice lolly (out of clear tinted resin) that was filled with dead wasps, or making a latex cast of a cows heart that I tried (and failed) to make a balloon with.

really like these.

I used to work in my dads bakery and we once made some breakfast and left the eggs in for too long. Threw them in a box of yeast we were using as a bin, the a cup broke. Three that in.

Then sent it to the tate modern. With some blurb about take away breakfasts being the downfall of society.

Never heard anything back.

Cow's heart balloon sounds intriguing! Even as a failed balloon it would have something I think. Do you have a picture?

We had one guy who spent a year making fetish art out of vegetables - pierced carrots and suchlike.

The bag/wall thing was one of the best things I did. Two curved L shapes to make a wall with an opening into a narrowing corridor so the bags kind of closed in on you. Very body-ish. It was actually v2, v1 collapsed on me when the 1" iron bar frame gave out. Turns out water is HEAVY! V2 frame was made out of old scaffolding. So that's one skill I did gain - I can weld.

Never heard anything back.

Their loss , clearly!

"Hello, it's me, that was a great gallery show.
Your cow wallpaper and your floating silver pillows.
I wish I'd paid more attention when they laughed at you."

:)

Just discovered this thread, good stuff!

Today’s

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Last night

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