Clay Models

During one of our life drawing session i tried doing a study of the life model using clay. I don't think that the studies went very well at all as i haven't got much of the form of the figure at all. But i also don't thank that the models are that bad to say that it was my first time, most of the time i spent trying to get the hang of it as i had worked with clay before but never in this way.

Life Drawing 09/01/15

When doing life drawing this week we introduced material and other object to make it more interesting. Having the fabric made it hard as it hid parts of the body and created lot of shadows and different tones. I found that my studies didn't go very well, i think that this is partly because it is the first week back and i haven't done life drawing in a few weeks. 

Life Drawing 19/12/14

Life Drawing 12/12/14

This was a new technique that i tried were you use straight lines to cross reference different parts of the body. This is to make it easier to get the proportions, angles and the form of the figure right, i found that using this technique made it a lot harder to draw the figure as you have to pay a  lot more attention to where you are drawing your lines.

Hoodening

Hoodening or Hodening is and east Kent tradition, but related traditions also take place in other parts of the UK and dates back to the 18th century. The play centers around a ploughing team at a farm in the Thanet although groups exist in the Deal. A common feature with in all the plays is a wooden horse, which consists of a head mounted on top of a wooden pole with fabric attached to hide the wearer, the head also has a hinged jaw that would snap shut with a crack.

Life drawing 05/12/14

The Derby Tup

The Derby Tup is also known as Old Tup or the Derby Ram and is a mumming play associated with house visiting customs around Christmas time in the Sheffield area. The Tup is similar to the Hooden Horse in construction – a head on a pole with snapping jaws and rams horns, held by an operator covered by a cloth to represent the body. The play is accompanied by the singing of the widespread old folk song “The Derby Ram” and is the story of how the ram is butchered and made into useful and desirable items for the local people to use. Other characters include his keeper and Beelzebub and Little Devil Doubt who solicit for donations with menaces.