Collage experiments using positive and negative elements of a stencil
Using one of the stencils I’d made previously from a sheet of white paper with yellow ink shapes on it, I played with the shapes of the holes and pieces I’d cut out (in yellow).
Category: Sketchbook
Shadow images of materials using spraypaint
I made some silhouettes spraying chalkboard paint over solid objects; a branch, pieces of broken plaster, brass shim strips and bits of balsa wood.
Light & Shadows
Sometimes research, sometimes documenting work, sometimes the thing that appeals to me in other people’s work, sometimes it’s the work itself. A collection of lights and shadows:
Phone sketchbook: finger or stylus?
These are done using Sketchbook Mobile Android app which is pretty impressive, but without a decent stylus, still not as good as a paper and pen somehow… It has a really great interface, customisable...
Lobster / Snobber
If the words Vomit, Flu, Deadline, and Lethargy had been some of those omitted from the Junior OUP Dictionary, I'd have done quite well these past four days of Every Day in May… I...
Marzipan
Marzipan smells and tastes delicious (if you are so inclined) but is pretty underwhelming to draw until someone has made it into marzipan fruit or icing. However it did make me think of soft,...
Catkin
Eugh – been a little while since doing some painting, and feels a bit stiff; these catkins (although I'm happy with the colours) look a bit like gherkins to me! Still, it was fun...
sketchbook painting…
Woke up too early again this morning so did a bit of painting before breakfast… The pear’s a bit floaty and the flowers look like they’re in a cup of blue tea but it...
It becomes easier to do, than it does *not* to do…
:) I like that idea… One of the exercises last week was to make a note of those people who’d inspired you (hero/ines in Artist’s Way talk…) One of these was a visiting lecturer...
