Kindred Long – Way of Seeing & Talking Pattern
Cactus that sells on the shop. Markers, Fineliner Pen and Acrylic Paint Marker
Collage with doodling. Magazine, Fineliner Pen and Marker
Reflective Writing:
For my first assignment, I was initially struggling with what to draw, but then I realized I was overcomplicating things, so I started with the existing photos on my phone. I usually like to use my phone to record my life, so as a newcomer to London I naturally took many photos. I took a lot of photos of London, including street scenes, food and goods. Taking photos can capture the moment, but painting through photos can extract the most interesting parts and express them through personal preference. For example, in the case of the percy pig, instead of sketching the outline and then filling in the color like a normal painting, I made all the lines and color blocks round. I created some three-dimensionality by overlaying different shades of circles. At the same time, because of all the round lines, percy pig looks more round and lovely.
Since I had the first task as a warm-up, I tried some interesting ways of painting in the second task. For example, I added detergent to the watercolor, and then rolled up plastic paper as a straw and dip it into the mixture of watercolor to blow bubbles on the paper. In addition, I also used the straw as a brush and scraped it on the paper. The pattern formed by the bubble explosion was fantastic and interesting. To enrich the picture, I added two specimens of butterflies I saw at the horniman museum with crayons. The whole painting process was very relaxed, I didn’t think of what I wanted to draw in advance, but drew and matched randomly. However, I didn’t pay attention to the front and back of the straw during the drawing process, and put the side with detergent in my mouth by mistake.
Overall, my first assignment at UAL was a good “appetizer”. Because there was no specific theme and no specific way to make it, it was a good way to observe the different things surround me and pay attention to their different perspectives and details. At the same time, it also allowed me to experiment with different ways of painting. However, I think my overall painting is still a bit similar and monotonous. In the future, I will try some more daring and bold ways of drawing and also test different color combinations.
7th November 2022 @ 6:06 pm
First of all, I’m really appreciate of your drawing skill. You are very good at drawing detail and using colour. You finished both tasks very well. Each of your picture looks very interesting. In the talking colour you use pour painting to make drawings, which I think is very creative. It makes me feel like landscape painting, and it’s texture almost looks like oil painting. I really like to know about how you did that. You are really skilled at drawing realistic stuff, I like the sunset view of Oxford street, you show a very warm and soft sunset glow. The strawberry cake and macarons look really delicious. On drawing pattern, each of your pictures showing abundant details. You drawing one item in different point of view, and use different material to draw. For example the first two pictures, the kiwi and pumpkin, you draw the whole thing but you also draw they got cut in half. You use many different colour in one picture, but it looks harmony. You have a lot of creativity and the courage to try new things out. From your comments I’m really surprised at you mixed detergent with watercolour and use straw to blow bubbles on paper, it looks amazing with the butterflies draw in crayons. Gives me a feeling of this is a scene in dreamy fairy tale. I really want to see more of your work!