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Swept under the carpet" is the current exhibition (till September) - servants in London households, 1600-2000. This is a 1630 hall on washing day - men would leave the house to escape the chaos, lucky them. "So home" wrote Samuel Pepys in the 1660s, "the house full with the washing and quite out of order."
I started with the basket and knew the first drawing didn't have things in the right place, so tried again -
And then I noticed the upturned stools in the gloom under the table -
The negative space beckoned, but drawing them seemed impossible, so I got out the ipad and "explored" -
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| A photo layer and a drawing layer (tracing round the edges) |
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| Photo layer disappears |
What the camera does to the perspective is interesting.
Elsewhere ...
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| The fantasy mural, by Jonathan Early, 1992 |
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| Janet has found a horse! but what a strange one... |
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| Janet's large vase |
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| Carol drew the vase too - and used colour sparingly |
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Joyce combined elements from house and garden
(rather like the mural does, I thought) |
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| Also in the garden, Jo caught the shadows of leaves between gusts of wind |
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| Sue found birdfeeders and pots of tulips |
The gardens are done in rooms according to designs from different centuries, as are the rooms inside the museum -
3 comments:
Which app are you using on your iPad? And do you use a stylus? I've not yet managed to trace an image as accurately as this.
The app is Brushes Redux, but I think the way forward with accurate tracing in any app is to expand the area you're working on and do the tracing a bit at a time, rather than try to swoop from one side of the screen to the other in one go!
I use my finger - and the Undo tool. The eraser gets a lot of use at the joins, if I want to be really accurate.
I love your play with the iPad - and I agree with Linda B - so accurate!
Another thought, I wonder what would happen if you filled some of the negative spaces with colour ...?!
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