Reflection - Fluid and Thoughts Work Shop

Overall i found this workshop quite enjoyable and fun, whilst i also learnt some good techniques and skills. I Feel like i am now a better drawer and sketcher. I have learn't how to build up a drawing to make it harder or faster or stronger and overall much better. These techniques will be very usefull in future works to help me communicate my thoughts with myself and others by getting things like perspective and rendering correct.

Collaborations

These are my final collaborative works for the fluid and thoughts workshop. Here we were meant to work in groups of two, but somehow my group ended up with four people in it, don’t ask me how because I don’t know, but I think it only helped to improve our work. We were to do three different collaborative projects, an interpretation of instructions given by our partner to help us in recreating a new picture; a group drawing, where we all got together and worked on the one drawing; and a n exquisite corpse where each new drawing was based on the previous drawing.
My interpretation drawing was based on the instructions of two lines meeting at a point with another two lines joining underneath it, set on stairs. So I interpreted and decided to come up with a new shaped building/monument that I created. I then rendered it and the background, to make it look three dimensional, and it look like it was night time. I quite like it and think that it turned out quite well.
For our collaborative drawing we decided to go abstract with our interpretation of the opera house, we focused on the repetition of the shape of the sales in the drawing. we created the opera house out of these repeated curves as well as its reflection in the harbour bellow it, and also used the shape In the sky above it. This drawing was quite large we used 3 A1 sheets stuck together, so we used charcoal to easilier cover the large area, and make the drawing more dominant.
For the final collaboration our work took a narrative direction where the image of the sails transformed to a mountainous landscape to a stream with rocks and to a forest. It was quite impressive that by just communicating through drawings we were able to come up with something with as much meaning as it.

Opera House

These are the drawings that I composed during and after our trip to the Opera House. The first is a drawing of one of the sails, from when we were sitting on the front stairs. I liked this view because I was able to see through the glass sail into the restaurant, and I attempted to show this in the drawing.
The second drawing is from the back of the Opera House on the Harbour side. With this I tried draw it like a quick sketch, I used a light pencil (F), and used very quick lines to make it look like a faster drawing.
The next drawing is from the same location, but I used a different medium this time in felt tip pen, here I built the drawing up a lot more to make it bolder and stronger. I also focused on the symmetry of the two sails.
My last drawing is a more abstract one of the facade of the Opera House. Here I focused on the dominant lines of building and extended them beyond where they finished. I then proceeded to build up the drawing by darkening selective areas to make it harder and stronger.

Drawings

These are two homework drawings that we were required to do prior to our trip to the Opera House, to practice our skills in observation and sketching. I chose to sketch the Scientia building on upper campus, because it is a building that interested me. It turned out it was quite difficult to sketch because of how the light reflected off the building, and also the building has a lot of glass elements.
The other building I chose to sketch was the Birdsnest stadium in Beijing because at the time the Olympics were on and this stadium was absolutely amazing, so I decided to sketch in chaercoal.

these are two graphite drawings by artist doug fluckiger. the top is titled january 14, whilst the bootom is june 16. he is inspired by nature and he creates intimate draeings by using tone to create depth. the diffrence in tone shows deth whilst the linework manages to shows space. june 16 is of a forest floor at dawn, with fog after a fire. the diffrences in tone really hghlight the depth and shadow, helping to show where the light is coming frm, whilst the blending of the tones in the background creates the fog he was trying to shw.

these are some artworks by modern artist graham matthews, his top drawing is part of a set of drawings of similar graphite drawings, it manages to show depth by the difeence in line work. the ay he has built up the lines in the middle make them appear closer than the thinner lines behind. the second is a painting of an iceberg, it relates to jorn utzon's opera house by showing the light reflecting of the ice berg, where jorn was influenced by the snow covered mountains of his danish homeland, where the soft powdersnow didnt glisten as much as the harder more icy snow, and he tried to recreate on the shells by having shiny glaze tiles, and dull matte tiles.

these are two images by the artist giacomo balla, a futurist. the top drawing is called mercury passing in front of the sun, and the bootom one is called the speed of a motorcycle. balla's abstract drawings show speed of movement and light by his use of fast linework and layering of images. his drawings are almost chaotic but convey the message of speed and movement.

this is an architects drawing that interested me. its of one of the most infamous buildings right now the watercube, by australian architects PTW. this image interested me by the way depth is created on the bubles by th use of tone, transparcy is created by line work. also their is an abstract element to the drawing with the giant fish, which gives a suggestion to the use of the building.