One of his works called 'drawing restraint' inspired our tasks for this session. Barney uses mechanical workings to draw his pictures, sometimes being harnessed from the ceiling, using rods with pencils on the end to create sketches.
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We took inspiration from this technique and created our own smaller version of this set up in the picture here. Using a small wooden rod, we attached a pencil to the end and this was our material to draw with.With the paper layed out on the floor, in Barney style, we sketched easels in front of us. Then using a shorter rod we did the same thing to see the outcome of using different lengthed rods. I found this technique quite hard as you couldn't be very accurate and it seemed like I didn't have much control over the pencil. I used the same technique and created another drawing on top of the pencil one of the easel and used a felt tip pen this time.
My own drawings
This was the outcome of using this pencil/pen on a rod technique. I am pleased with this. I think using thr feltip pen makes the shapes of the easel stand out more and they look quite like technical drawings.
In the next part of the session, we used a plant in a pot as out object to draw. I used a biro pen first and then pencil second. Then for the final drawing, we used two contrasting coloured pencils and created a drawing using both our left and right hands. this was quite hard to do, looking at the page then looking back to the plant.
These are all my own drawings and these are the final outcomes. I didn't really find the tasks this week very helpful, I don't think I would know how to relate this back to fashion that much. But however I do think it is good to always be learning new techniques and look at different artists not in my area of study to see what else is out there.
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