Last night's class turned out fine eventually. I couldn't really get into it at the beginning. We have a temporary tutor for the next two weeks and perhaps this felt like an interruption to the flow of last week. I had a chat with him and although he thought I could be developing work from last week, there was a still life to work on - similar to last week and for me it was good because it was also structural - I was happy trying something different to make sure I have a larger body of research to work on.
The lighting was very different and there were more objects to concentrate on - if we wanted to. I started sketching in pastel, for no particular reason other than that I hadn't used pastels for a while. The result was ok but nothing special. I wanted to concentrate more on the scale and proportion but the tutor asked whether that was important to me. I suppose it isn't really.
We then went on to do some printing and I liked the effect I got. I used ink and oilbar on newsprint and the tutor liked the different textures I'd obtained. I then went on to do a very quick oilbar sketch on card. I liked it but he felt the background was too busy. I am quite happy with progress so far this term. I've done a bit more research on Frank Auerback and Mel Bochner (I wasn't keen on his work really but the other tutor suggested him to me). This tutor suggested Franz Klein, whom I quite like but perhaps feel some works are too primitive, and Giacommeti's sketches - I can see the link in this sketch.
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