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| These are a few of my favourite drawings from a cluster of 40 drawings done in different mediums. They were drawn from my own images taken on my trip to the Natural History museum. The most common mediums I used were pen, pencil, acrylic paint, chalk, charcoal, watercolours and liquid ink. |
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| Our first group installation was inspired by our trip to the Liverpool docks. It was a drawing installation of which we used many different mediums such as acrylic paints, pencil, chalk charcoal and used cardboard and different papers to make it appear more three dimensional. I personally worked on the door, painted bricks and a broken window, focusing on a realism effect. I used shadows and highlights to create a 3-D look on a 2-D surface. |
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| We added broken boxes, bags and litter to the installation to reflect the urban theme. Paint splatters were added on the walls for further effects. |
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| Our very first project was to create a mythical creature puppet. During the summer, I visited Kenya so my inspiration was African mythology. One of the myths I came across was of the 'Tokoloshe'; a small, gremlin-like creature said to terrorise school children. I designed my own interpretation of the creature and created a plush puppet out of hand-batik cotton. I hand painted his features in acrylic and added earrings for a more tribal effect. I dyed the material with tea and coffee after passing many plantations in Kenya and also chose batik as it's a traditional Kenyan technique. |
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| I was highly interested in looking at the structure of leaves and especially studying dried leaf skeletons. I experimented using tin foil, tape and string to re-create the look of leaf skeletons, but found that using real dried leaves created a leaf skeleton print from their veins. I experimented with small leaves at first then dried large leaves from a Hoster plant. From this, my outcome was a long wall piece made up of earth colours to reflect the natural theme. |
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| My screen print theme was 'Identity' and with so many personal pictures of my friends from our trip to London, I wanted to create something special to remind me of the good time we had there. I experimented with different styles, colours and papers so did four large samples on paper as seen here. |
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| Inverted print done on black paper in white paint. |
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| This piece was re-created with techniques inspired by an Artist i found. He used a roller to paint his background and left crisp edges to give the entire image a new shape. |
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I created a soft pillow to reflect the personal touch to the project. It
represents the comfort I feel when i'm around my friends.
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| A tonal drawing focusing only on the light on the body |
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| Life Drawing allows me to practice and improve on my skills in proportion, line drawing and tone. As the sessions have gone on, I have found myself thriving and loving drawing the human figure. It provides more challenges every time and tests my ability to draw people. I try new techniques and mediums to see which mediums I need to practice more with and also what I am best at. The image above is a line drawing of our life model who is adopting the lying down position. This angle was tricky, but I managed to create the proportions of the body almost perfectly. |
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| Done in soft pencil, focusing both on measurements, proportion and tone |
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I have always been fascinated by jellyfish and wanted to
capture their beauty in a series of paintings. I researched more in depth and
found artists such as Michelle Kurlan who captured marine life in a simple form.
Finding a primary source was difficult as jellyfish are hard to photograph on a
daily basis; so, I created my own jellyfish out of man-made materials such as
newspaper, silk and plastic bags. I followed with a photo shoot and clever
editing to make the jellys come alive. My final task was to paint from these
images. Done in oil paint on board.
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