I have been developing my ideas over the weekend. So many idea's, so little time! I have been working on my double page spread in my A2 book - last Tuesday afternoon, Kath had asked us to create a composition of shell drawings or anything else we wanted to draw relating to World of Water that would fill a double page spread of our A2 sketchbooks, including any wording or media we liked. The only stipulation was that the drawings were from observation, not imagination or photo's. I started with a shell in soft pastel that filled half of one page: I am happy with the textures I created, but it needs fattening up a bit - the proportions aren't quite right. I then continued to add a further 3 shells, each approximately half a page in size, overlapping each other in a little group: I needed a background to pull them together - my thoughts included a collage of paper images representing sand, I looked at magnified sand and thought I might draw in enlarged grains ...
As I have decided my Museum Project piece will be based on The Swimming Pool by Thomas Rathmell, today I have been researching other artists who have painted the subject. The obvious swimming pool painter is of course David Hockney, but many other artists revel in the challenge of painting the human body submerged in water - Samantha French and Scout Cuomo are a couple of my favourites, but today I have found other wonderful, inspirational art and artists working along this theme. Samantha French Samantha French "Rise Up" I have followed Samantha French on Instagram for a while - her work is stunning. She lives in New York with her partner, another painter I admire, Aaron Hauck and their very cute dog. Aaron Hauck Her artist statement says: "My current body of work is focused on swimmers underwater and above. Using vague yet consuming memories from my childhood summers spent immersed in the tepid lakes of northern Minnesota, I attempt to recreate the qu...
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