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PEncil - Henry lambHenry Lamb is a British painter who was born in Adelaide, Australia and raised in Manchester, England. Lamb was also a member on the Camden town group in 1911 as well as the London group in 1911.
During his time of studying he was pressured to study Medicine by his parents but later decided to become an artist as he moved to London and enrolled into the Chelsea School of Art. He decided to go back to finishing his studies within medicine which took place at the outbreak of WW1. He was appointed the title of Official War Artist until it was the end of WW2 in 1945. We have been assigned to try and replicate the techniques Lamb uses within his pencil drawings which mainly consist of cross hatching and trying to show the depth within each pencil stroke. I have managed to find both pencil drawings as well as some oil paints he has created to show the variety in his work. |
Henry Lamb
(1883 - 1960)
PEncil experiment
With my pencil experiment I began with trying out the different sizes and the depth they would create for me with simple sketches of the outlined face as well as cross hatchings. With this i figured which ones I would use most and where I would need - I used mainly all of the pencils but the 6B most until I found the B pencil which gave me a much darker depth (although unsure as the B pencil was a different type of pencil compared to my original 4 pencils). I later moved onto using these pencils with some warm up sketches just from eye and mainly to see where I should be adding in more depth.
Final Pencil Forgery
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Pen and ink - mervyne peakeMervyn Peake was born on July 9th in the hill town of Kuling, Kian-Hsi province, China in 1911. He was brought up by parents in the medical field and came to England around the age of 12. Treasure Island has been his favourite book as a child when he was in China and would let him imagine the scenarios.
At an early age he began to paint and write stories in which his first book of poems has been published in 1941 called 'shapes and sounds'. He had been awarded the W.H. Heinemann Foundation prize by the Royal Society of Literature (1950). He attended the Eltham College and Croydon School of Art (1929-1933). During 1922 - 1935 he had joined the artist's colony on Sark which began his teachings at the Westminster school of art in 1936. With his illustration for 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' he used a similar cross-hatching style which would later be used for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' & 'Through the Looking Glass'. During WW2 he became a War Artist for serving in the army and was the first person to enter one of Belsen's concentration camps in 1945. This affect had him start to create more distressful paintings and writing. We have a task to try and use ink to recreate Peake's drawing which has a few cross hatchings as well as stipples with thin lineart, I have tried to show a range of his work below with some colour but a lot of ink's. |
Mervyn Peake
(1911 - 1968)
ink EXPERIMENT
For my experiments I had to work with a fountain pen and ink as I did not have a dip pen, I started off with doing some ink tests with some objects and random lines. For my next small test I tried to do parts of the body I was trying to figure out how I would make it work and decided to try out the smallest brush I had to see if it would still give me the same effect which it didn't.
Final Pen and Ink Forgery
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Scraperboard- clare leightonClare Leighton was a English/American artist who focused on illustration and writing and is best known for her wood engravings. She was born in London on the 12th April and was brought up by authors who encouraged her to express her artistic freedom.
In 1915 she began formal studies at Brighton College of Art and later on trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts where she began to study wood engravings under Noel Rooke. From the 1920s to 1930s, the world was going through some changes which had impacted her work drastically. This has made her to start writing books that praise the countryside and those who worked the land as she wanted to show the positive effects of their lifestyle. In 1945 she emigrated to the US where she had made a name for herself- the first woman to have a wood engraved book which published. Although Leighton uses wood, we where told to use scraperboard as an alternative as it is similar to how she works. But before I show off my work, I did not manage to have any spare scraperboard to try experimenting with and had to go straight in which was slightly hard as I have never used this medium before. I also made a few mistakes to see where i should be taking out but went over with ink to try and fix these mistakes to the best that I could. |
Clare Leighton
(1858 - 1934)
Final Scraperboard Forgery
(Original Left - Forgery Right)
Comparison
Overall all my final Images seem to have not really turned out well.
Pencil - I can clearly see where I have made the image different - I did manage to get the overall shape slightly correct but there's a few parts of the face that are pretty different.
Ink - I worked with a fountain pen to get the outlines but I was also rushing through it so I used a normal paint brush which makes the image really look different with it's thicker strokes.
Scraperboard - I only had one attempt at this but it was really hard to work with, I inked up some areas I wasn't supposed to cut or just needed fixing.
Pencil - I can clearly see where I have made the image different - I did manage to get the overall shape slightly correct but there's a few parts of the face that are pretty different.
Ink - I worked with a fountain pen to get the outlines but I was also rushing through it so I used a normal paint brush which makes the image really look different with it's thicker strokes.
Scraperboard - I only had one attempt at this but it was really hard to work with, I inked up some areas I wasn't supposed to cut or just needed fixing.