Surreal interior perspective

This is a challenge to work on our skills with perspective.

My first attempt, the advice was to make it larger, and give more detail to the object on the table. Also that the pear needed to have foreground to appear to be visually in the interior

Although these appear to be the same size, the print below is actually more that twice the size of the first sketch..

A topography of detail

We were set a challenge of completing a hugely magnified drawing.  I do hope that you can see the pistachios in this drawing/painting.

Mark making

The set up for this exercise was a still life with a light underneath a jumble of items, stools, lamp stands, chairs, an old vacuum cleaner.  Our challenge was to examine the negative spaces and use short marks to create tonal variations.

A still life abstraction

Our challenge - the problem that we had to solve, was to pick 3 to 5 elements of a jumbled, huge still life, and create new imagined textures for the surfaces in an abstraction.

Some print work - lino cuts

My apologies for the quality of the photos - I need to figure out a better process.

This was my first attempt at printing, "Grasslands".  Really I was experimenting with different types of cuts.

This is a "suicide print" cutting the lino after making the first print of grey ink.  Our theme this term is botany - how we can use botany in learning art processes. Further, the challenge for this print was to convey inside and outside.  The title, "Inside/Outside Pine Needles".