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The starting point for this brief was looking at the work of French artist Henri Matisse. On this first sketchbook spread, I have studied the work of Matisse in his paintings done of open windows. I have used acrylics and watercolour paint to recreate these paintings in my sketchbook. I took inspirations in these pieces for the rest of the brief, as I explore different compositions and colours.
These are a few of the pictures of the Matisse paintings I looked at for this brief -
I looked at areas of the house where I could see interesting lines, and where I could see a geometrical pattern of some sort. I looked at the window frame upstairs and a piece of glass art I made a few years ago that is on the window sill. I also drew with watercolour paint a part of our kitchen, one in ordinary colours, and the other in more eccentric and unnatural colours.
Here I have continued to look at compositions and a geometrical pattern in the door into the kitchen, which I have made pink in this drawing. I have also experimented with colour and also a lack of colour in what you can see through the windows in the door. I also drew an observational composition of what I can see from my workspace upstairs in the house.
This is another piece of Matisse's which I looked at, called 'the music lesson'. I loved the compositions of the figures sitting indoors with the view through the window behind them.
On the left page of the spread in my sketchbook, I have made a copy of Matisse's 'music lesson' with watercolours, and then, on the right, I have made a painting with watercolours of my sister and Mum sitting in the kitchen with the patio door in the background in the style of Mattisse. I then went on to edit this picture on my phone, as well as my study of the music lesson, so I could see it in different colours.
After looking at the Matisse paintings (including the ones I have printed from the internet in the sketchbook page on the right), I was reminded of another artist who uses windows as an essential part of her compositions, Song Kang. I saw her art in a youtube video a few months ago where she discusses her compositions (a few of which I have printed off the internet at the bottom of the right page).
I did a study of one of her pieces in which you can see coronavirus particles through the window on the left side of the sketchbook spread, in fineliners.
For this page I did two versions of one composition in my house, mainly inspired by the piece I studied by Song Kang, with a chair next to the window. For the Song Kang version, I also included coronavirus particles in the window of patio door, as Kang did in her piece, while in the Matisse version, I included the real view that can be seen through the patio door, which aligns more with Matisse's style.
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