Using reference

I sourced my reference from the internet, google images and blogs. I think it is not that easy as many searches bring up pictures that are not really from the Fifties, or are from the present but 'copies' of the past.  Found nothing at all in my local libraries, didn't like the 50's enough to buy a book on the subject. I spent weeks on this, although the subject was not exciting me very much. In the end I gave up and had to go back to it months later. I also found that in my local museum, a whole room is set up like a kichen in the 1950's. Unfortunately, I can't find my pictures and will have to add them later...

Some useful links:

 

 Much info about 1950's interiors and influences, with references

Fashion and style of the 1950's, also cars, tvs

Vintage photos to a trip to Europe 1959

A cover illustration for Le Grand Henderson's 1953 novel HOME IS UPRIVER

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html

 

that's how I feel about this exercise!

An objective drawing

I looked at hats for this exercise: I believe the one that I found most interesting as an object, the canadian tribal hat, is the one that was most accurate and shown well with watercolours. This was a hat that I painted from a picture found on the internet.

Exploring drawing and painting

Third time lucky? I have lost my first two posts today....

Here is the selection that I kept after making a book, then cutting it out and gluing it in a sketchbook so I wouldn't lose it...

I have tried my best to do the exercise : "Exploring drawing and painting"
Have I learnt anything new? I don't think so, except for my collage effort. To do this, I followed a technique I put together for teaching primary school children how to do a quilt: I did my design, used transparent paper and traced each part which was then cut and pinned on paper (I chose paper that looked like fabric since I had no fabric). The apple was then put together like a puzzle, and I added 'stitches' drawn over the top.

I tried bleach and it didn't work at all on the paper I had.


Perhaps I could be more adventurous, but I have lost some enthusiasm. It was a bit of a surprise as in general I am the first one to mix different media. I made a collage with flour as well as paper about 30 years ago, and it has survived very well with just a clip frame protecting it!

Perhaps I'm more conservative that I thought I was?