Sickness

It's been a while since I last posted. The fact that I'm now back at work, after the school's Summer holidays, is likely related. What also may be related is the fact that in just under 3 weeks its my wedding and my brain is progressively turning to cottage cheese!!!

I've been making things for the wedding  like placecards and favour bag/boxes (I'll post pictures on here later). Not really arty, more crafty... I suppose there is still creativity involved.

Now I'm ill! Sick! My chest hurts and I can't stop coughing. However, being under the weather has inspired my latest piece of artwork appropriately titled: Sickness.

I used green and yellow ink and my own particular abstract style.

Abs

Sadly, this in no way a self portrait. However, I did enjoy drawing this picture.

I used a photograph from a magazine called Attitude as inspiration. The photograph  was of a full length model but I chose to focus only on one element of the photo. Drawing only on the abdominal section allowed me to play around with shading.

Also, drawing only this part of the model enabled me to completely avoid drawing hands!  Maybe that's what I should focus on next HANDS!!! I'm pretty certain if I can draw them I'll pretty much be able to draw anything. Need to get practising though because the ones I produce at the moment look like they belong to someone who's had an accident involving their hands being mangled in machinery.

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representing

A lot of people ask what the symbols in my artwork represent. Sometimes they don't really represent anything but just kind of grew organically as I drew them; sometimes they represent an idea or an animal , and sometimes they represent people, as in this piece if artwork.

When drawing this I'm representing a situation and was very focused throughout the whole process. I definitely feel that expressing myself artistically kind of gets those emotions and thoughts out of me so I can leave them behind and move on.

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Growth

I always enjoy doing these sort of pieces and lose myself whilst doing them.  I used pencils and a rubber to clean up.

I just let the composition grow. I wanted to create the appearance of depth so layered up parts, which I think works well.

Whilst drawing this I got the idea for next piece which has more personal meaning I'll upload that tomorrow.

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Seasons of My Soul

This is a piece called "Seasons of My Soul";  named after and Rumer's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


I really enjoyed this piece. The central light representing my soul and the branches growing from it representing aspects of that soul- Seasons if you will.


I normally use inks with this sort of work but they didn't lend themselves to the black card I was working on- thinking now maybe silver ink or gold would. Instead, I used acrylic paint; building up enough coats to produce the depth of blue I was after. This took some time and was hard on my eyes so I could only work on it for short amounts of time.


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Loud

This is a piece called Loud;  named after and inspired by Rihanna's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.

I used soft pastels and ink. I used a style that I developed myself that originated from years of doodling that began after seeing Chakotay's tattoo on Startrek Voyager- which is supposed to be Native American. I enjoyed creating this and pieces like this

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