Adventurous Drawing and Colour with Mark Cazalet

I feel blessed to have spent the bank holiday weekend drawing in the beautiful landscapes around West Dean in  glorious sunshine. Mark Cazalet was an excellent tutor, I signed up for this course hoping to come away using colour in a more considered way and he did not disappoint. He set us a number of exercises over the 3 days including using cool colours on warm grounds (papers) and vice versa, exploring the effects of black versus cream grounds and seeing the colours around us in a much less literal way.

The first drawing was made in the gardens, Mark suggested I redraw it from my original drawing without looking at the source.

 

It is interesting how the colours are so much more vibrant…

 

This one was a 10 minute sketch, playing with different colours to give and impression of depth, light and shade:

 

This drawing was exploring the combination of warm and cool colours together on a neutral ground:

 

I had 10 minutes before we were expected to pack up and return to the studio so I did this one just for fun:

We were asked to create some sketches of abstract forms  from what we saw in the gardens, from those I repeated the same design several times on different coloured grounds, it is curious how the colour of the paper has such a an impact on the feel and tone of the drawing.

 

 

These last two drawings are my least favourite but it was an interesting exercise, the first was warm colours on a cool ground:

And cool colours on a warm ground:

 

Now it is back to work for me! Enrolment for the new online felted bag class closes on the 22nd and the class starts in earnest on the 25th, I am still doing the final edits on the tutorials while trying to prepare for the Surrey Open Studios event beginning on June 2nd it is going to be a busy few weeks but both are projects I am really excited to be taking part in, if you would like to join in the fun please follow these links:

Felted bags online class: link

Surrey Open Studios: link

 

6 thoughts on “Adventurous Drawing and Colour with Mark Cazalet

    1. Teri Post author

      Thank you ladies, it was a brilliant course and I would highly recommend Mark Cazalet for anyone wanting to achieve a deeper understanding of colour, looking through my drawings I can see a definite development over the 3 days.

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  1. Ruth Lane

    Thanks for sharing this over on FNFS. And I appreciate the information about the pastels. I have some really, really cheap ones that don’t work very well. Will have to find some that are mid range.

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    1. Teri Post author

      My pleasure Ruth, thank you for inviting me to guest post on FFS 🙂
      Before you consign your pastels to the bin, have you tried them on different papers? Some papers have a plasticky coating on them that seems to repel the pastel, have you tried them with more textured papers? Ideally some pastel paper?

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