Lowry

Lowry  29/02/2012

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Lowry was very inspirational to my work as he painted many townscapes which is what I have been focusing on. Here is some information on Lowry.

Laurence Stephen Lowry did not just paint northern scenes. He visited the south coast looking for ships and ferry s to paint. On one of these trips he visited Winchester where he observed a bearded lady pushing a perambulator. Lowry started to sketch the woman who strongly objected and used all sorts of foul language to let Lowry know it! Lowry recalled this moment and he was even more amazed that this happened in Winchester of all places!

Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Rusholme, Manchester, in November 1887, the only child of Irish-born R S Lowry and Elizabeth Lowry (née Hobson). He attended a local school in Victoria Park, but took private lessons from William Fitz, before starting work as a clerk for a firm of chartered accountants in 1904.

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My Plans!

My Plans!  29/02/2012

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This will be going into my portfolio but you can have a read...

I have learnt through using various methods, how to adapt the style of art I produce. I have found that using various media, like graphite pencil more shading and variation of colour, or not has come into my artwork. Experimenting with different media has also given me more of a versatile base to my skills. I have found that it has helped having my blog(www.clairesartyworld.blogspot.com) where I can use the comments gained from there to help me develop my own style. What I will continue to do is carry on experimenting with different media and improving my paintings and drawings with the help of other peoples constructive criticism. Throughout my portfolio I will include examples of this continued work which will also be viewable on my blog(link above).

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Tonal Sketches

During the time I have spent on this part I have been working on a series of london sketches. I chose to work on London as there are a lot of landmarks that I can sketch and they would look good as sketches. In my. collection so far I have done ; St Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben and Tower of London. There will be more sketches to follow.

Artistic Licence

Artistic licence is where you have the ability to change or adapt part of a readymade picture from a magazine or photo to make it your own. This could include changing positions of particular features of the picture. You might also change the colour of the sky in addition. Doing this it could enable you to be looser in your style of drawing or painting creating a possibly better image.

Equipment for Watercolour Painting

You will need:
Paper- Whatever feels the best to you like I mentioned in the last post.
Paints- A recognised name like windsor and Newton is preferable. If you are just starting out then I would recommend off of eBay "Essentials" it's 15 tubes of paint and 2 free brushes. The quality isn't as good as some but it's decent enough to get you started. The brand for those is Royal and Langnickel.
Brushes- If you don't get the set I have recommended then I would recommend getting 3 brushes from the stands you see in the likes of HobbyCraft or the Range. You should get a wash brush, round brush and a rigger brush.(Those will be defined tommorow!)
Palette- Of course you could use a dinner plate but any palette from a craft shop will cost you well under two pounds.
Pen- I would say to get a waterproof black very fine pen would be useful for pen and ink drawings

HB pencil and rubber

Types of Watercolour Paper

You can get many types of watercolour paper to suit your individual ability. When you are just playing around with watercolours you may just choose to go with very thin cartridge paper or possibly even standard printer paper. This is all perfectly fine although the quality of your painting will be very limited. As you get more experienced with watercolour painting you can get thicker paper, this could start from around 90lbs to what professional artists use - 140lbs. Brands are up to you but I would recommend Windsor and Newton. One other brand you could go for is Royal and Langnickel.

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St Paul's Cathedral

Here is my latest sketch of St Pauls Cathedral. This is a tonal sketch using various shades of pencil.

"Base Tones"

When sketching and in most cases painting you always add a base tone to areas of your drawing then add extra shadows.

Cross hatching

A technique useful in sketching is cross hatching it is a way of filling space without many hard lines.

Update on my Latest Sketch

This is continuing on Twitter but still

Step by Step St Pauls Cathedral

Check out my Twitter Feed @claire_12heart for a step on St Paul's Cathedral which when it's finished I will be uploading to my blog if you have missed it!

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