Week 2 - The Artful Bird

I think this week's assignment was hard but I think useful.  I just kept working on everything until my time ran out. I'm about to get on a plane to visit my mom in Philadelphia so I have to get this assignment turned in.  I'm not sure I still really understand everything that's going on inside the bird. But I'm trying to learn.

My line work is a bit shaky.  I need a more confident line.  I remember when drawing the human skeleton the teacher said to exaggerate the joints and make them darker and stronger lines.  I think I could work on that some more.  I'd like to make the bones feel more volumetric and less flat.  I'll keep practicing.  I 

On Friday I took a quick linoleum block printing workshop and I made a design from one of the swallows from last week.

I'm going to redo it when I have more time.  I was rushing in the workshop to get it carved and printed before the workshop was over.  When I redo it I'm going to make the moon white instead of black and the air behind the branches black instead of white.

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Week One - The Artful Bird

 I'm working through the courses at the RISD Extension Natural Science Illustration Program.  Here's week one homework.

Priest's Cove

Outside of Brisons Veor, the cottage I am staying in is Priest Cove (Cornish: Porth Ust, meaning St Just's Cove) or Priest's Cove.  The name is from the Cornish Porth Ust, the port or cove of St Just, which was shortened to Por’ Ust. The apostrophised name "Priest’s" is a spelling mistake and the site has no connection with the clergy.

This seal was hanging out there.

There are a lot of lobster traps there. But I didn't see anyone selling lobster in Cornwall.

Font

This beautiful baptismal font is in the parish church in St. Just-in-Penwith.  I want to do some artwork around it but I haven't done anything yet.

Is this the apple from the garden of Eden?

I'm not sure what this is.

What type of leaf is this supposed to be? I wonder what story it is. 

Noah's ark.

More grapes. 

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.  

John 15:1-5

 

Walk to St. Helen's Oratory

". . . the most superb coastal scenery in the Kingdom is that which is presented by granite wall and metamorphic rocks of West Penwith, from Clodgy Point in the north round to Carn Du in the south." 

p. 41, Unknown Cornwall

There's a great walk from Brisons Veor to the top of the Cape and then down and around a build field where you can explore St. Helen's Oratory.

Here's the trial from Brisons Veor up to the chimney.

As you walk up the will you get to the coast guard station. The coast guard parks their car by my cottage every morning.

The chimney is a beautiful marker on the top of Cape Cornwall

I'm up there with Sarah and Michael.

Tim joins us for this selfie.

Sarah and I.

She's showing me something.

Views north.

Looking at the Brisons

Looking at Priest's Cove.

Someone had left these yellow roses in remembrance of the departed. Yellow is definitely the color of Penwith.  Yellow flowers were also in Owen's Doyle's stainedglass windows.

"The remains of St. Helen's Oratory, which date back as far as Roman times according to one observer, is a tiny early Christian chapel located in a field at Cape Cornwall.

An ancient cross with a chi-rho monogram was discovered on the site in the mid-19th Century, but was sadly lost. The current cross on the chapel is one that was found nearby." 

www.saintsandstones.net

If it wasn't colder than all get out I would have done some sketches.  But I was too cold to work outdoors. 

This is the most beautiful of all the photos.

 

When we went inside it was quite small.

This headstone has the name Payne which is a name in my family.