Video: Sunga Park (Part 2)

﻿Hi and welcome to architecture, understanding the world around us. This is lesson 4 of 16 and this is lesson two of two lessons that we're going to be looking at the artist, Sunga Park. In lesson one, we looked at who Sunga Park is. How her artwork can influence our own artwork and what skills we need to create a Sunga Park inspired piece of artwork. This lesson we're going to be looking at which types of media Sunga Park uses. How we can develop our own artwork in the style of Sunga Park and what skills we need to complete a Sunga Park inspired piece of artwork. This is an artwork by Sunga Park. She has used watercolour in this piece of work. And she's allowed the watercolour to drip down the page. Pause the video and complete this task. What effect do the drips and bleeds have on the artwork? Why do you think the artist has chosen to do this? In this artwork by Sunga Park, the artist has chosen to select small architectural features to draw. I'd like you to pause the video and consider why you think she has chosen to do this and why you think she's chosen to only draw some of the architectural details. How does this affect the work? We did cover this a little bit in lesson one. So I'm just going to let you recap your knowledge. So now we have considered Sunga Park's style, we can begin to make our Sunga Park artwork. So we're going to continue artwork inspired by the techniques of Sunga Park, using watercolour and adding fine details. Remember, you need to take your time in creating your artwork. It's not a case of getting it done, but a case of doing it to the best of your ability. If you need to practise, then do so, 'cause this is about developing your skills to create something new and original. If you need to pause the video and watch the video again, then please do, because this is about making something you're really proud of. So, resources. Today, you're going to need the artwork that you started in lesson one. A felt-tip pen, or some ink or watercolour paints and if you don't have art materials, then coffee will do too. A paintbrush, some water, a fineliner pen, or a ballpoint pen, preferably black. And the same image of you of a building from lesson one. So pause the video and go and collect your resources. So this is my demonstration, I've got the outline of my drawing ready that we did in lesson one. And now I'm going over the details with a pen. I'm using like a fineliner pen, so it's like a felt-tip pen with a really small edge. A ballpoint point pen won't work for this, because the ink won't smudge and blend as easy when you add water. So what I'm doing is I'm just adding the ink, I'm scribbling it in and I'm not being too precise, because as you can see now, I'm putting water over the top of the ink and that's allowing it to blend into the page. It doesn't blend to perfectly. So you'll see in a moment that I do something else that can help me make more kind of a washy effect and it allows me to change the tone a little bit, by adding more water for a lighter tone and less water for a darker tone. So what I'm doing is I've got a piece of plastic, it's just the wrapper for my ruler. And I'm drawing on that plastic just to deposits and ink onto the plastic. So then I can pick up that ink with my paintbrush and I can almost use the ink like watercolour paints by adding less water for a darker colour and more water for a lighter colour. I'm just going in and I'm adding shading, how I can see it in the picture. Remember you always want the pictures that you're drawing to be next to you, so you're not guessing, you're drawing from observation rather than from imagination. 'Cause you don't want to be drawing from imagination, 'cause if you do, it never quite looks right and we want it to be as accurate as possible. I'm adding in all the details that I can think of that are quite important with my fineliner pen. And then again, I could go over this with the water and the paint to blend it out and smudge it, or I can leave it as a fine crisp line, either way. When you're doing your own work, you can decide how you'd like to leave that. And if we pause now, you can complete this part of the task, where you just going to go around the outlines and you're going to add some shading with the water and then come back and we'll continue to the next part. So this is the next part. As you can see, I've added all my details and now I'm adding some drips and shades and tones. I've got some black ink, that I have a pot of ink, so I've used that. But you can use, like I said, coffee. A really, really strong coffee, it wouldn't be black, it would be dark brown, but that's fine. And you can have a very similar effect. You can try and deposit more ink from a pen, if that works for you, or you can use watercolour paints. And if you flip back to the previous lessons, there we've used charcoal as in barbecue coal and we've managed to use that as watercolour, by picking it up directly from the coal to the paintbrush. So what other materials you've got that you can use, you use that. So what you can see I'm doing here is I'm using the ink and I'm kind of making these dark patches and I'm taking lots of water. And so right here, I'm filling my page with lots of water and I'm just depositing little parts of ink to make it darker in areas to add that shading, to add that tone. I am looking at my drawing to see where the light is picking up, where the light is hitting on the wall and on the page. And I'm just trying to get some tone and shading. What you can also do, is you can put loads of water on the page and just drop the ink and you can see it disperse. So that's how you get the drips and dribbles, but you need to pick it up and give it a shake, so you can get that drip. Otherwise it'll just be flat on the page and that'll make the page quite soggy. And you don't want the page to be too wet, you want to be careful of the kind of paper you use. Ideally you want a thicker cartridge paper or a watercolour paper. If you don't have that, then printer paper is fine, but you just need to bear in mind how much water you put on the page, because you don't want it to drip and dribble and tear the page. You can see here that I'm adding more water and I'm considering my light source and now I'm going in and putting the sky in. So it's just water that's going on and then I'm going to dip my paintbrush into the ink and you'll be able to watch it dispersed, there we go. And now see how it just disperses, 'cause the ink reacts to the water and it flows where the water is. If the page was dry, it wouldn't do that, it'll just stay put. So I'm now blending out the ink. I don't want to add more ink, I just want it to blend out, so it gets to the full background. So the building can really stand out behind that sky. I think this is where I should have stopped. I think I got a bit carried away here and kept adding some more and it's quite hard when you're doing it, when you're working, it's quite hard to know when to stop. I probably should have stopped here, 'cause I think I'm losing some of the details, but I'll keep going. And I'll remember for next time that I can stop a bit sooner and maybe add a bit less tone and dark details. But I really like these drips and dribbles, so I'm going to add a few more of them. And so I've got a bit more control. I drew the dribbles in and then let them drop down, rather than be kind of crazy and free with it, so it can just sit at the bottom. If I go to the next slide, I'm going to explain what I think I've done well and what I think could be done better. So I think I've made some good tonal observations. I think the edge of the bay window is very nice, where I've got some shading. So you can see where the sun is hitting the house, kind of like from the front angle-ish. You can see that because of where the light hits. You can see that the bay is a curve, because I've got the darker ink on either side. But I think I should have planned my ink wash a bit more carefully because it is slightly overworked. So I should have considered where to stop. The problem is with ink is, you can't take it away once it's done. So you should put a bit of planning into it, before you just go ahead and potentially overwork your work. So pause this video and complete your task. Once you've done your task, share it with the Oak National, because I'd love to see them. And remember to take time at the end of the lesson to complete the quiz. Thank you and have a good day.

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In today's lesson we are going to be looking at the artist Sunga Park and completing our ink and wash drawing.

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