III. Assignment three – initial ideas
December 20, 2012 Leave a comment
Task: Select a view from a window or an open door. Try to find a view that includes some natural objects and that shows your understanding of perspective (areal or linear), i.e. it needs to have depth. A3 paper. Your choice of medium. about 2h for final drawing.
Before the final piece: Do composition sketches, broad brush sketches for colour decisions, try out different media
A view through a gate is like a door… so that should qualify. This abandoned factory building is so fascinating. I am not sure if I can last 2 hours in that location though. Last time I was there with Chris (also at OCA) we got attacked by mosquitos, stray dogs and on top of that we got gassed by a 3 km long queue of lorries that kept their idling engines running while waiting to get into the harbour zone. It was like “choose your death” and we asked if we could have all of the above. But boy, is this an attractive view. All sorts of stairs, gaping windows, texture. Lovely.
It’s a bit of a stretch but maybe the view through the massive porch could be interesting and would still qualify for this assignment if I went closer and included more “view”? The rendering above tries to capture the whole building, so that part of looking out through some gate/window/door/tunnel is not there yet. I would have to explore this building a bit more. A shame you cannot get in there… there are all these semiwild dogs – or maybe they are protecting the property? They seemed quite effective in doing this since Chris and I decided to keep a distance.
A different place I love is the Academy of Visual Arts building in Chung Hoi. It’s such a beautiful place, a colonial building with large trees on a hill among housing estates. This certainly qualifies as a “proper window view”, looking from the outside walkways towards the high tower blocks. The sunlight and shade there is majestic with the balustrade and columns framing the view. It would need to be in a coloured medium as the pinks and blues of the housing estate blocks are must more friendly than it appears in my pencil sketch above.
Decision time…