A video made to celebrate being at LMU - I'm in there somewhere...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLdp0bYKNxo
On show at C4RD /
My sculptural drawing, Doodle 3, is on display as part of 'Hanging together' at the Centre for Recent Drawing. Curated by Janette Parris, LMU fine art students share the walls and floors with drawing students from Camberwell, with interesting takes on the question, 'What is a drawing?'.
As I view the surrounding drawings, I recognise the work of fellow Morley foundation student Fungai Benhari. His style takes me back to my primary school days when I used crayon to cover a piece of paper with random splotches of colour, paint over it in black poster paint, wait for it to dry, then scrape a drawing to reveal the colours underneath. Unlike my arbitrary colouring, Fungai makes considered decisions about how he wants his colours to appear and uses small implements, usually cocktail sticks, to inscribe tiny marks that result in an intricate and complex image.
Doodle 3
Fungai Benhari
LMU Fine Art and Camberwell Drawing students, hang together at C4RD
Stop the press - forthcoming exhibition /
I’m showing a piece of work at the exhibition, ‘Hanging Together’, at C4RD - Centre for Recent Drawing - in Highbury & Islington this week:
Where: C4RD, 2-4 Highbury Station Road, London N1 1SB.
When: Private view 6-8pm, Thursday 8 March, then 1-6pm on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 March.
Hope to see you there, too!
Hit the headlines! /
The Hackney Post's review* of Different Strokes is online now - fame at last!
Above: Stretch, at The Castle; right: Doodle 4
Forthcoming pop-up show, Different Strokes /
My fellow students and I have organised and will bestowing some of our work at The Castle bar, Commercial Road, London, for one night only on 14 March 2017, 5pm-8pm. Hope to see you there!
'Mike D, 3 February 2017' /
2017
Blue card, yellow card, black card, PVA, cartridge pen
Life drawing, LMU /
Fellow part-time student Joanne has set up a life drawing class, which the course does not provide. We got a great model, who gave us some interesting poses.
It's odd that life drawing isn't part of the Fine Art curriculum. You can ask a tutor and they will always turn the question back on you. But I know why I appreciate it - it trains the eye; improves the ability to see and compose, and increases technical ability. All these odd lines, planes, shades and tones - and your style can be representative or abstract, 'perfect representative' or as loose and as 'rough' as you like. Even a 10 mins session that can be fitted in a lunchtime, or as a warm-up first thing in the morning would keep the eye and hand in practice, and kick-start the day's creativity. You don't even need to pay for a model to come in - students can take it in turns to pose, nude or fully clothed.
So, tutors, why not?
A mix of quickie sketches and longer poses
'Stupot, 14 January 2017' /
Birthday card for Stupot.
Red card, green card, PVA
