Class: Imaginative Composition [2022]

Winter Term 21/22

10 weeks, learning different compositional techniques

Taught by Carl Randall, the course covered multiple techniques to pieces together, prepare and hone a composition ready for painting.

Techniques included:

• using maquettes (creating sets/models)

• using film stills (and playing with perspective via ratios)

• collage

• use of shapes and layered paper cuttings to symbolise key elements

• creating shapes and directional focus with the positioning of figures

• sketching from life, to a brief

• exaggerating and realigning angles

• ‘zooming in and out’ by iterating sketches on specific areas of a composition and on a whole composition to generate multiple options for selection