Sean MacDonald: Sean MacDonald - First ARCH1101 Blog

Sean MacDonald - First ARCH1101 Blog

This piece was done for a year 11 Visual Arts project. At this time in the course we’d been studying the Surrealism form of art and focused on the Australian artist James Gleeson. The aim of the project was to make figures from real life landscapes that existed on the school grounds and use these figures in a Surrealist artwork. Drawn using pastel crayons on an A2 drawing paper, the idea is that emotion can flood a person’s world.

The Powder Tower (Left in image) in Prague is a Gothic building that exists in the old town area of this absolute masterpiece of a European city. The tower was built as a city gate in the Middle Ages and fashioned after the Old Town Bridge Tower on the Charles Bridge. The reason for my fondness of the Powder Tower is that while being influenced by an architectural landmark of Prague, surrounded by buildings of varying architectural periods such as the Municipal House from the Art Nouveau period, reflecting the rich history and architecture of Prague.

This photograph is from the ski resort of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada. The view from the top of the mountain on a clear day reveals the mountain ranges with the beautiful nature of the snow, rocks, trees and mountain peaks. This photo was on a cloudy day with a layer of clouds above the mountain peaks and another layer of clouds halfway down the ski slope. The moment this was taken was towards the end of the day as the sun is near setting beyond the valley and a few hundred meters down the run until visibility goes from kilometres of marvellous beauty to a few metres of white out.