VIS220: Project one drawings + more photos
Some charcoal, pencil and pen drawings exploring trees that used to be (full resolution images here). I love the starkness of the light in the charcoal drawings... the intensity of the blacks and the whites... the simplicity of the sharp shadow lines. I tried on a few things... figures bowing... the crow... Cavalry Hill... I was having some trouble really getting into the spirit of exploration until the idea of halos emerged. For this project, I wasn't really enjoying the looseness of the charcoal and I wanted something more controlled. The pen drawing is simple below but I think it's the direction I want to go in now (similar to the Springbrook poster I did a while ago). I guess with art (and possibly anything worthwhile doing) you've got to go down a few rabbit holes to know what it is you don't want and to pave the way for new ideas to come.
I have a sense of the final project now - a finished pen, pencil and charcoal drawing (A3 size) combining a memorial (flowers piled up, teddy bears, photographs of the tree that used to be) and a sacred object with a halo like medieval painters used around their saints :)
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I have a sense of the final project now - a finished pen, pencil and charcoal drawing (A3 size) combining a memorial (flowers piled up, teddy bears, photographs of the tree that used to be) and a sacred object with a halo like medieval painters used around their saints :)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxKLLXD5CnUwuz02OquZ0JY4zvC5bxbe7OT5rZSoCXMI9rTB8TopK_RuDkOMBeB4ikd7JA_qQ_DQPaImMhzKOyMLrhZdYW6Ws-j8BHgfskUdc5mOwqzC81oALM8cr81r0Zp1LG5yhnsE/s1600/IMG_0965.jpg)
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A few more photographs...
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