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Poster

2011-07-06T02:53:00.001-07:00

I haven't been blogging for a while or doing much drawing, I need to get back into the habit of just doing as much as I can so i can really progress. In the meantime I've been storytelling (competition in Wales tomorrow) and concentrating on my raw food diet and holistic healing. Here's a poster I made for the lovely ladies in my storytelling group.

Poster

2011-06-14T07:09:00.000-07:00

Find me storytelling at 5.09

2011-06-08T14:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/user/PeoplesParkPodcast#p/a/u/1/DeeZlpnqzZQ

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2011-05-21T03:17:00.000-07:00

Spying on people

2011-05-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

France trip

2011-05-12T04:38:00.000-07:00

I hitched from Birmingham to southern France on my own to see my mum on her fiftieth birthday. It was hard and long but the people who picked me up were incredibly kind, I wish I could say thank you again to every single one.

Card badges I made

2011-05-12T04:37:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook work

2011-05-12T04:21:00.000-07:00

Life drawing

2011-05-12T01:33:00.000-07:00

Birthday card

2011-05-12T01:23:00.000-07:00

pat and sophie

2011-03-06T15:31:00.000-08:00

I live in Birmingham

2011-03-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

Watercolour

2010-08-11T07:14:00.000-07:00

Card for a friend

2010-08-11T07:08:00.000-07:00

Foxy

2010-07-13T05:54:00.001-07:00

After leaving camberwell its been a bit difficult making art, I'm sharing a room with Patrick and there isn't space for crafts so I'm sticking to drawings for a while. Looking into getting a studio and a job at a soap shop.

Here's a foxy for now.

Rough of final image

2009-11-21T16:07:00.000-08:00

Live Green, Love Green, Think Green

2009-11-17T08:10:00.000-08:00

We were asked to produce five A3 roughs for a poster, my title being 'Live Green, Love Green, Think Green'. I started out by looking through my sketchbooks to see what nature drawings I had, or anything that's associated with green. Birds seemed to be the overiding theme so I used sketches I'd done previously and drew from them to create a context in which my phrase would be suitable.
My ideas are subtle, there is nothing particualy outstanding within them, nothing that would utterly convince you to be green, I don't suppose I'm clever enough for that. I just thought that the simplicity they hold would make them stand out at a glance, so the mesage is being put across fairly rapidly.
Not sure which to go with yet, obviously whichever it is will need more work, although I do like the idea of using the black paper to create shapes. This will be particulary useful when the image is blown up full scale because it won't lose much detail, and the blocks of black will provide a reasonable amount of contrast with the white to make it a bold image.

Mushroom drawings

2009-11-03T14:33:00.000-08:00

Part of the collection project. I started doing some drawing from pictures in books (not shown) but Ann advised me to go out and do some drawing in situ. Found it so much more exciting, I created shapes and colours that were unexpected and organic. Here are my first few attempts, drawn on location in Epping forest. Want to look at an artist that deals with nature in a kind of free and natural way, for inspiration, any suggestions?
Working with watercolours was a quick and easy way of applying colour to a large area, but when I got home I was glad of being able to use a wider range of materials such as ink to create a more intense line and shadow. Although I suppose the shadows weren't particularly strong when the mushrooms where in their natural habitat, under a desk light it's perhaps more prominent so wouldn't need to be represented with such harsh materials when I was actually in the forest.
I think the image that worked the most successfully is the second up from this description on the right hand side of the page. I particularly like this drawing because it gives me a sense of where the mushrooms where growing in relation to one another, I remember seeing them in sprouting in a way which gave a sense of space between each growth and wanted to represent that in a drawing, so continuous line was my choice, to show a flow between the forms.

Some quick drawings at Pat's house

2009-11-03T11:43:00.000-08:00

A few nice mushrooms

2009-10-29T11:53:00.001-07:00

We're given a collections project, to produce fifty drawings of collected items. I decided to start a mushroom collection after our visit to Epping forest, here's a few pictures I took to get me started.