Cambridge

DRAWING IN CAMBRIDGE

We thought that as we studied art and were students that it would be perfect to spend the day drawing Cambridge as a nice day trip for my uni friend who came to visit.

 It is quite daunting choosing something to draw when you are on a really busy street. We sat on the wall outside Kings College and I decided to draw the shop front because I wanted to capture how twee it all is and the really beautiful railings. To actually start I thought the best way to get stuck in would be to do a continuous line drawing. I also realised that it was okay to interpret things and translate them to paper in means that aren't realistic. I could chose which windows from the row of houses that I wanted to illustrate but also that I could draw textures through patterns.

 I really like the prints by Ruth Allen and her line drawings so thought this would be something to try. Her work is a lot looser than my drawings and also seems like a finished image due to the fact that it fits the frame so well, rather than being cropped to fit. I also like her use of one background colour.

This is of the entrance to Kings College. I really enjoy doing drawings which focus on line and I feel that I am developing a visual language and my drawings are recognisable as mine. They are almost realistic but have character due to the lines not being straight and the details almost being a pattern.

 This isn't in perspective but I quite like it. There are gestural lines to represent the bricks and the flowers are also gestural and the for-ground of the grass isn't in perspective.

 This I feel has too many straight lines and is quite busy but I wanted to capture for-ground, middle-ground and back-ground in my drawings. I wanted to capture the contrast between the different buildings in Cambridge.