Tate Modern Course: Painting, print and memory

Next Monday will be the last week of an art course at Tate Modern I have participating in for the last four weeks. The course has been created to coincide with the fantastic Marlene Dumas Image as Burden exhibition.

The first session was spent viewing the Dumas exhibition with an hour spent drawing her work using a limited range of media. Here are my sketches:

The following week we were asked to bring portraits of iconic people and family / friends. I selected Vivienne Westwood and an image of Jim Henson (who bears a striking resembles to my dad).

We used watercolours, inks and resist techniques to capture the portraits with the added challenge of having to paint the image whilst upside down! It was hard but lots of fun. I managed two portraits in the time.

Watercolour, masking fluid, wax and ink

Watercolour and ink

I have been practising my watercolour techniques since the course started and really enjoying it. Here are a few I have created in my own time. The first is another version of Vivienne Westwood, the second is my interpretation of Natasha Khan and the third Anne Frank. I have limited the colour palette and used a water-spray to add movement and energy to the watercolours. I spent a maximum of about 40 minutes on each painting.

Watercolour, wax crayon and ink

Watercolour and ink 

Watercolour

The next session is on Monday where the course attendees get the chance to display three pieces of work in an exhibition at the Cloire Studio at Tate Modern! Pretty cool. I have some mono-prints to include too but haven't photographed yet.

Which three pieces do you think I should display?