{"id":680,"date":"2026-04-27T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaelle-artstudio.com\/plog2026\/?p=680"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:37:19","slug":"exercise-3-6-a-gathering-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaelle-artstudio.com\/plog2026\/exercise-3-6-a-gathering-of-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise 3.6 \u2022A Gathering of Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Aim\nFor your final exercise in this project, you will first of all look through all the work you have produced so far. What subject matter did you find the most interesting and challenging - and at this stage, what would you like to develop further?\nWorking with still life, landscape or interiors, this is your opportunity to dig a little deeper, with subject matter and with materials. But remember you are still at the gathering stage, so exploring ideas and ways of interpreting a subject, rather than trying to make highly finished work. Allow yourself to take experimental risks along the way.\nFor landscape studies you can refer to earlier sketches and your own photographs. If you decide to work with interiors or still life you can work from life.\nMethod\nMake some very quick preliminary studies in your sketchbook to experiment with different compositions.\nWorking with your choice of media and on any scale, make a series of between 4 - 8 studies. You might decide to work relatively quickly on one or two pieces - perhaps 20 - 30 mins, keeping the mark making fluid and gestural. Other studies might take longer and have a little more detail and definition in places - vary your approach.\nYou are looking at different ways of working with the same subject, but that doesn\u2019t have to mean the same arrangement of forms e.g. if you choose landscape each of your compositions might have very different elements. Or if you are working with still life you can describe different objects.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
Initial reflections on subject matter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n