Kate Mellor

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A4 Sketchbook

Using a pencil i started to draw one of the photos i took of my mum. I plan to use black ballpoint pen to further develop this piece.

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Experimentation

This was an experiment as i had the idea but wasn’t sure if it was going to be a good one or not 🤣 I still have mixed opinions on this piece as when i held it upto the light i really like it but the piece as it is isn’t what i had in mind.

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Drawing onto a tissue box

This semester I wanted to use recycled materials. This wouldn’t just help the environment but also i was making use of the materials i had at home with me.

I kept this tissue box as i knew i could take it apart and use the inside.

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A4 biro drawing

I decided to add blue and red ink to this biro drawing as i wanted to create a contrast between hot and cold whilst also adding colour, tones and shadows to the piece.

I sort of drew this on at random but used the placements of colour where it felt right too.

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I used a cheap white acrylic paint as i knew it wouldn’t be thick. I wanted the paint to be watery so I could create a foggy effect over the drawing.

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A4 biro drawing

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10.5 cm x 13.5 cm mixed media

I drew out each portrait individually making each one different. I used small lines and sketches using biro pen and added watercolour paint to create colour and tone.

I wanted to create small studies of the face experimenting with different colours. I wanted to use different colours to add colour to my work as i felt like my work was very dark.

Experimenting with different colours allowed me to play with colours that complimented eachother and colours that didn’t go together.

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Jenny Saville

Jennifer Anne Saville born 7th May 1970 is a contemporary British painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.

I really like Savilles use of colour in her portraits. I would like to use this colour palette in some of my own work.

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A3 Mixed Media mini series

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A3 mixed media

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A3 mixed media

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A3 mixed media

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Textures

Source : https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-resource/exam-help/texture

Texture refers to surface characteristics and appearance of an object given by the size, shape, density, arrangement, proportion of its elementary parts. A texture is usually described as smooth or rough, soft or hard, coarse of fine, matt or glossy, and etc.

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A4 Biro Drawing

Using blue and red biro i created this drawing. This wasn’t successful as it didn’t have the outcome i wanted.

What i did thing was successful was the print that was left underneath the drawing.

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A3 Biro Drawing

I wanted to create a biro drawing that looked like a screen print. As i didn’t get chance to do any screenprinting i wanted to create work that mimicked the screen print process.

Using black and red biro i created this over lapping portrait. i wanted to use these colours as they contrast really well and they create the overlapping process well. This piece is one of my most successful pieces because i really like the overall outcome. When looking at this piece i want the viewer to feel the movement that i created in the image.

When i finished the drawing i got this on the piece of paper behind

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In my garden shed at home I found an old kitchen tile that was going to get thrown away so i decided to keep not really knowing what to do with it. I painted it white so it was just like a normal canvas.

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/1483261?seq=1

Sixteenth century Italian mannerist paintings, characterized by juxtaposed figures in angular poses with limbos and torsos flattened in the