Life drawing sessions

This is a life drawing session that I did starting with quick short poses leading up to a longer 1 hour pose as seen on the top left.

50 Found drawings

These are some sketches done recently based on the project from the start of the year. The drawings are about editing information to suggest space through lines, creating simple, suggestive images.  

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst  has been obsessed with death from a early age.

Japanese artist Hokusai and Hiroshige

Hokusai printed his 36 views as part of the travel boom that hit Japan and as art of a personal obsession with mout Fuji. Hokusai known for his ‘great wave’  print first name was Shunro by his first master. He published his first prints under this name. He printed a series of pictures of kabuki

Experimentation with mixed media

I have returned to mixed media to create more original work. I am interested in the overlapping of paper between figurative and abstract art. Using different textures to create contrast between rough and smooth.

Life drawing in Cardiff, St Mary’s st

 

Bristol museum exhibit of Japanese woodblock prints

Dry point workshop

This was the first dry point workshop that I did. It has been interesting to trace over sketches and see the outcomes of the ink on the paper. I quite like the rough and ready element of the pattern created on card. In the future I would like to create a larger image of multiple

Study of a woodland

This is a life drawing of a woodland in the Forest of Dean. I have used soft pencils to create a figurative drawing of the landscape. This is a sketch that I may use for printing over to create a new dynamic to the image.

Bristol Templemeads

This is a life drawing study of Bristol Templemeads train station. I like the parts of the picture in which the trains come together. I started off the picture by doing a continuous line drawing of the people in the foreground.