2020

Level 5 Kingston School of Art                                 

Reportage



CONTEXT 

Reportage drawing or location drawing is an essential way of developing your own mark and visual language. This session is a way to cement a link between the process in the life room with the outside world, it’s a nudge out the door so to speak, to get you motoring and not think about what you do ‘’out there’’ to be separate to what you do ‘’in here’’. We will be attempting to look at a landscape in the same we look at a model in the life room. 


Reportage illustration usually entails portraying a specific location to illustrate an aspect of that place, which is requires explaining by the brief – from a map for a tourist guide to an illustration about climate change it is an expansive area of work for illustrators.           


BRIEF 

The aim of this class is to capture with drawing, a location and the qualities that help to form a sense of place. This includes the inhabitants, their movement and their surroundings, figure and background; Secondly to try to record an idea of the illusory pictorial space that the place you are drawing occupies.
You will approach these visual and sensory problems in a plethora of ways including: 

  • • Expanded/constructed drawings 
  • • Building images over time 
  • • Possible accidental Narratives 

Throughout the workshop you will, along with Josh, assess the mark making and observational techniques you are producing. 

Do not be late, the class will begin without you. Dress appropriately for the weather and bring a drink and snack in case you get hungry. 


Aims

The primary aim is to capture the expansive space of a whole landscape in a drawing – that is not focusing in on sporadic details but trying to get the entire thing down.


Secondly we will be looking in particular at the marks we use to do this – how do we use the marks we make to describe the topology of the landscape; a flat field, a valley, trees etc.


Referenced artists in the class

Hurvin Anderson

Van Gogh

JWM Turner

Indian opaque watercolours V&A collection

Per Adolfsen

Bobby Fermie

Edvard Munch

Claude Monet

Assyrian reliefs British Museum

Eleanor Taylor

Yoshida Hiroshi




Hurvin Anderson



                                 

Bobbye Fermie

                 

Bobbye Fermie



Amy Bennett


Edward Hopper

JWM Turner, Landscape with Trees and a Castle 1828?, Tate Collection

Yoshida Hiroshi

Van Gogh


 Van Gogh






Series of paintings, Unknown Artists, in opaque watercolour on paper, V&A museum London




Danny Markey




Emile Nolde




Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Lake Keitele

Edvard Munch


Per Adolfsen

 
Per Adolfsen

Claude Monet, Poplars. 



 Van Gogh

Assyrian relief of a fisherman, British Museum

 Eleanor Taylor

 
Eleanor Taylor



George Shaw


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