About Carol Dewart
Born – Scotland 1957, BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting, Glasgow School of Art, 1981. Winner of Emmy Sachs award / received a John and Mabel Craig Award. Postgraduate year, Drawing and Painting, Glasgow School of Art, 1982. Awarded Travelling Scholarship. During my time at Glasgow School of Art, I also studied Embroidery and Weaving for one year under the guidance of Chrissie White and Hannah Frew Patterson. This has had a major influence on my work and, by integrating the use of various mediums, textiles and stitch work; my paintings strive to give a more textural observation of the landscape. After Graduation, I stopped working for a time to raise a family, but I have now returned to full-time painting in Cardross, Argyll and Bute. In 1998, I was commissioned by Dumbarton District Council to create a wall hanging and related paintings for the refurbishment of the Denny Civic Theatre, Dumbarton. Member of the Paisley Art Institute and winner of the Concept Art Prize (Paisley Art Institute 2012).
Although this was a painting demonstration, I’ve included I’m including it in my Drawing blog because I was impressed by her sketchbooks, and the painting she did demonstrated good composition.
She had a square canvas, which she had already painted with black acrylic. To this she added strips of masking tape for the tree trunks. She then tore strips of newspaper which she taped to the canvas horizontally and used this so as to have a random uneven edge. She was using Liquetix Acrylics because she likes the colours, but uses most makes. Her colours were very bold; mauves, light green, light yellow, not natural to a landscape. She added patches of pinks and turquoise. She then removed the masking tape on the tree trunks and used the edge of a credit card mixed with 3 colours to add texture to them. She said she was using the black background for demonstration purposes only because of the time restraints and normally she would spend a long time working up a back ground. She worked on the whole of the painting. Any colour added would be balanced by adding to another area on the canvas.
My sketch of Carol’s painting
I was even more impressed with Carol’s sketchbooks. They were full of colour and texture. There was fabric, thread and wire, and I wondered if this was influenced by her studies in Textiles at Art college. She said she uses felt tip pens a lot in her sketchbook for speed and convenience and this is something I would like to try myself.
References
My drawing2 blog 