Doreen Florance

Exercise: Visual distortion

For this exercise I need to draw a cat or dog using any source for reference. Susie Hamilton paints two life pictures of her beloved dogs from Hospital Rooms (digital Art school) YouTube. It is lovely watching her paint with such gusto and confidence. She is painting a Welsh Terrier (she refers to as herContinue reading “Exercise: Visual distortion”

Exercise: A tattoo

This exercise is designing a tattoo for a male friend based on the word “Mum”. This design also needs to be suitable as a greeting card for Mothering Sunday. As directed I am researching the history and conventions of tattoos and body art in terms of the past and other cultures (as well as lookingContinue reading “Exercise: A tattoo”

Exercise: A menu card

The purpose of this exercise it to produce an illustration for a menu card of a sophisticated quality fish restaurant – modern, bright and contemporary in design. The image is also to be intended as a logo so it needs to be straight forward and clear. An example of the logo needs to be 40Continue reading “Exercise: A menu card”

Exercise: A children’s book cover

This exercise is to produce a cover illustration for a natural history book for children (age 7-11) entitled Animals from Around the World. The image is to be used as a full colour front jacket to encourage children to choose this book from the library shelf. The aim is produce at least three ideas asContinue reading “Exercise: A children’s book cover”

Exercise: Museum posters

Reflections on Course Three feedback

Coursework Three feedback is so good to receive, especially as OCA Tutor could see how much progress has been made in this part of the course and the responsiveness to feedback. OCA Tutor feedback is invaluable in being so comprehensive and thorough. I have taken a while to carefully read through the report and highlightContinue reading “Reflections on Course Three feedback”

Exercise: Identifying tools and materials

This is about researching illustrators’ work in terms of style, content and use of medium eg whether pencil, water colour, paint, gauche, collage, pen & ink or application of technology – in terms of digital drawing/photography & painting. Or use of a variety of mediums. To work through this exercise I am referring to theContinue reading “Exercise: Identifying tools and materials”

Sketches

Here are a few of my sketches during the coursework (June 2020_ :- Some doodles:- More sketches:- Birds on trees at a distance:- House plant:- People out and about:- Home grown hydrangeas in crayon:-

Digital Art School

Digital art school came to my attention through circulated NHS email. It is an open digital art event for hospitals however also open to the general public. I consider it a good opportunity to learn different art techniques and meet professional artists via zoom With permission I am able to time my lunch-break to joinContinue reading “Digital Art School”

Assignment three: A poster

This time it feels different approaching Assignment three, than for the previous assignment. I feel more prepared and ready to respond to the brief which is to design an illustration for a music event. There is a choice of events and I am choosing “A Jazz evening”. I can recall a brilliant Jazz evening atContinue reading “Assignment three: A poster”