Primary and secondary research exercise

PRIMARY RESEARCH

Obserwation studies - Accurately capturing a subject in a drawing or painting is the goal of observational art. The image must be created from real life, not from a photograph or the artist's imagination. One of the subjects may be a still life, figure model, portrait, or landscape.

Today, instead of sitting in the classroom, we went outside. We should think about our Project sign off and the visual/concept research. For this task we had to make observations of the terrain, nature; make sketches of the forms and shapes created by nature, observed in my case. We also had to take pictures to capture the most interesting observations  and quick 5 sketches (see pictures below). 

Lauren advised me to focus on shapes, organic forms and textures. I drew the ones with the most bizarre shapes and those that remind me of marine organisms. For example, a tree with a semicircular crown is visually similar to a jellyfish, and undeveloped fern leaves are a bit like a seahorse. All shrubs can be compared to sea anemones, sea sponges or corals.

I took pictures of trees, bushes, leaves, flowers that have such amazingly shaped branches, leaves or petals because when I look at each of them I can imagine something completely different. For example, tree branches remind me of octopus arms and tulip petals remind me of shells. Each of these strange and unusual shapes and forms will help me design my sculptures.

SECONDARY RESEARCH

In the second part of the excersise, we went to the library to find and borrow books for research on our sign off artists. Sam suggested to me two artists who create abstract sculptures Henry Moor and Barbara Hepworth. Their work, materials are they used can help me with my project. 

Reference:

Gale, A. (2023) How to create an excellent observational drawing: 11 tips for high school art students, STUDENT ART GUIDE. Available at: https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/realistic-observational-drawings (Accessed: April 26, 2023).