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The Art of Expression

June 27, 2020
Art, Commedia dell'Arte, Design training, Drawing, education, Mask Making, OutMask, Performance Skills, Sculpture
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Today I have been making cartoonish drawings of Primary Emotions.

IMG_4076 A Neutral Face

 

IMG_4077 Sad and HappyIMG_4078 Angry and DisgustedIMG_4079 Surprised and Fearful

These I intend to  use next week for some online teaching, as I give a demo on mask-making to prop. making students.    I would like to get them active and not just give a     one sided lecture. I use these ideas when teaching mask performance skills so why not for makers.  I hope it will make it more personal for them as they  examine their own faces and feel what muscles they use to make these extreme expressions.

Getting down to the bare bones of the Willow Pattern

October 5, 2018
Drawing, OutMask
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Keeping on with the drawing.                             Layer upon layer.                         Week Three.

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An Archeology of drawing. Memories, Histories, Stories, Journeys and Formalities.

How am I thinking and seeing ?

Human Bones And Names Names Of All The Bones In The Skeletal System Human Skeleton All – ANATOMY BODY DIAGRAM

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Painting Project

September 30, 2018
Design training, Drawing, Mask Making, OutMask, Sculpture
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I do love painting. The Finishing of masks is just about my favourite part of the mask making process. Therefore, now I am setting myself this challenge, to paint for the sake of painting.  I shall use this 3D triptych as the blank ground for painting. I just don’t know what it will be, certainly not decorative and not my familiar mask technique of exaggerating the underlying  form.  So lets see.  I have always been particularly impressed by the way in which ceramic artists are able to paint/draw directly onto a 3D surface. And of course, cave painters did the same, on bare rock AND in the dark.

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Werthachat Hall

April 6, 2016
OutMask, Uncategorized
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On Friday 18th March, Lady Werthachat held a Gala Event  of entertainments in order to raise funds for ‘The Guilding of the Moat’ in honour of her late husband, Sir Bluster de Werthachat who sadly drowned in the lake whilst pruning his roses. We see here Werthachat hall before the guilding and an architects impression of the final effect. We also see portraits of Sir Loverly de Werthachat by Nicholas Hillyup (1585 )and Lady Simper de Werthachat by Thomas Gainsborow (1773)

Rehearsals for Commedia Show

March 17, 2016
OutMask, Performance Skills, Theatre Workshop
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As part of “OutMask’, Prosopon are exploring and rehearing for a Commedia Dell ‘Arte inspired ‘Cabaret’ style show. Mentored by Didi Hopkins we have now taken our experience and skills into the devising  of ‘Lady WerthaChat’s Quadrille’ or ‘For every Master, a Servant’.

To be premiered at City Arts, Nottingham, friday 18th March 2012.    In the spirit of Commedia this will be a rough-hewn entertainment, full of topical and local jokes.

Theatre of the people and for the people.

Re-learning wood carving

February 25, 2016
Design training, Mask Making, OutMask, Sculpture
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After two weeks of short  and frustratingly unsatisfying bursts of just a hour or so here and there, today I spent 6 hours on the job, in honour of International Commedia Dell ‘Arte Day. I think I have cracked it. Not finished but feel like my hands and eyes understand what they are doing now. Loads more practice needed but happily on the way. Have a real sense of 3D in the wood.

I should get to leather next week.