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Even though the shoe exercise was difficult it heightened my awareness of shape and edges. Made this exercise much easier! I am pleased with how it turned out except for the two ink blobs :-)
In the heart of a brick kiln, where childhood is often buried under the weight of labor, a small group of children sit before a makeshift blackboard. Surrounded by stacks of bricks and smoke from the chimney, they cling to the fragile promise of education. This moment is not just a class—it is resistance, hope, and the dream of a future beyond the kiln.
sketch from building photos provided for this exercise
setup lines done in graphite then final lines in pen using Pitt Artist Pen in small and medium point
After 'Marriage a la Mode' by Hogarth
Lessons (1999)
By Paula Rego
Rego made this work for the National Gallery's group exhibition Encounters, eight years after her residency. She was asked to produce a piece that responded to a work in the gallery's collection. Rego chose British artist William Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode c.1743. Hogarth's cycle of paintings is a morality tale of arranged marriage, betrayal and death. Rego reworks Hogarth's story, updates it and set it in Portugal. In her first panel, two mothers arrange their children's marriage. In the second, the girl learns to perform 'womanhood' from her future mother-in-law. Finally, the now grown-up husband returns destitute from Brazil, in need of his betrayed wife's support.
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Paula Rego
(July – October 2021)
The UK's largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Paula Rego’s work to date.
Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented.
This exhibition tells the story of this artist’s extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It also reveals the artist’s broad range of references, from comic strips to history painting.
It features over 100 works, including collage, paintings, large-scale pastels, ink and pencil drawings and etchings. These include early works from the 1950s in which Rego first explored personal as well as social struggle, her large pastels of single figures from the acclaimed Dog Women and Abortion series and her richly layered, staged scenes from the 2000-10s.
This is a unique opportunity to survey, in the city that Rego has lived in and called home for most of her life, the full range of her work.
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Taken in Tate Britain
Another important lesson I learned while sketching around the house, that in every painting it has to be a main focal point to grab the eye interest. The bark is the main thing and the the rest is the background (banana leafs tree, foliage, etc you name it). Yay! Eureka...
Since 2013, Ben Heine's Pencil Vs Camera concept has become popular in primary and secondary schools worldwide. Heine was quickly contacted by art teachers and schools requesting to use and teach his techniques to their students. They are showing them Heine's creative process through pedagogical worksheets and ask students to do similar images to stimulate their imagination, train their drawing and photography skills, encourage them to use new technologies and motivate them to share ideas and communicate. Heine's work also allows teachers to discuss the differences between observational and imaginative drawing with the art class. The students either create their own artworks from scratch or use Heine's images with the sketch removed to have something to start with
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