This past week’s visit to the Sir John Soane’s Museum showed many different aspects on how light and placement of objects and furniture can skew a room to look alluring. With this museum consisting of 3 residential homes that united, it made the experience more “intimate” and you were face to face with these sculptures, taking in all of the beauty, talent, and story that came within.

Each room that was walked into gave off a different energy with endless knowledge to explore on the art pieces shown, the window light to room effect, and inspiration for creating a unique interior setting. The visual connection that was made seeing how different window designs and placement on the wall reflecting onto the objects made me re-interpret my project and shift the gears to make the contemplation space be more of an inspirational aura for my client as opposed to a reserved space. To have a space with multiple different sized and colored windows that manipulate the inside space positively and open up a whole creative side that was once not known.

Guiffre, J., 2022. Sir John Soane’s Museum. [image].

Palimpsest Drawing

A task we had to complete while visiting the museum was to draw a palimpsest style drawing. I have never done that type of artwork before, so I looked into artists and different techniques used. Layered works of art used through a variety of mediums is a new style that I found to be very interesting. You get to play with your subject and different textures in one’s art. Jane Couroussopulos and Julie Mehretu are two artists that excel in this type of art. Different styles but excellent executions, they use color and layers to make you feel embodied within the art.

With this being my first time doing so, I stuck to one type of material- and did it graphically. In the future, I would love to play with oil painting and manipulating space with different uses of materials. Drawing this style based on the Sir John Soane Museum was very interesting. With a range of art, colors, patterns, sculptures, and lighting that were presented to us through the museum- utilizing all of them to create one painting made this experience all of the more thought provoking.