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In
keeping with the narrative, this figure strains against the rain with flapping
coat and bent legs. Interestingly, the umbrella retains a sedate vertical alignment!
The majority of the space of the print is given over to randomised rain gestures
and there is little attempt to develop detail or refine the figure. Although there
are three kinds of mark making used, the fine lines on the figure are almost lost
in relation to the heavy border and similar marks in the rain. Pressure of the
mark making tools has been explored but not used very extensively for varied effects. |
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Finger
prints and bold crayon marks have successfully been employed to produce this happy
family group with umbrellas. The impact of bad weather is not reflected in the
figures' posture or clothing, with the possible exception of gumboots. There is
little differentiation between the figures. The picture has been elaborated by
repeating a symbolic figure rather than developing the context of the story. There
is evidence of control of the media to produce a crisp bold image. |
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A
smiling figure walks sedately forward while his hair blows vertically and umbrella
inverts in response to swirling up-drafts. The context is explored with guttering,
drains, footpaths and an adjoining building. Heavy rain textures create an evenly
spaced diagonal pattern. A weakness in the handling of the media is that all marks
are given equal emphasis and produced with heavy pressure from a crayon. The drawing
becomes lost in detailed patterning with insufficient contrast to provide dramatic
focus. There is considerable thought in the selection of schema and textures appropriate
to the narrative. |
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This
is an immaculately produced print with one main type of crisp line and contrasting
heavy border. The print includes all the elements of the narrative without the
drama. By selecting schema carefully aligned to the vertical or horizontal, there
is no feeling of movement possible. The symmetry of frontal organisation makes
the static quality even more emphatic. The more random graphic effects of print-making
have been avoided possibly because they felt messy. The student is in control
of the media, although the potential of the process is not fully explored. |
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Huddled
rain-coated figures shelter under a shared umbrella. The figures are differentiated
from each other. The rain pelts in strongly contrasting gestures that do not compete
with the crisp line of the umbrella and figures. The strong central organisation
prevents further exploration of the context or establishing drama or direction.
There is little attempt to elaborate the narrative or forms. |
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Hair
blows, the figure bends, while rooted to the ground dressed in x-ray gumboots.
The rain falls in three well-formed vertical droplets while an umbrella tugs in
yet another direction. The variety of directions tends to create a charming interest
at the expense of a coherent narrative, as if each part of the drawing has its
own independent world. There is a variety of mark-making for both pattern and
form which shows control and exploration of the media. |
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