Wednesday 31 October 2012

Apple a day

It's taken me ages to get round to writing this (more on why anon) but here is one of the paintings I did last week. I worked hard to make the apple as shiny as it was in reality.
I'm writing this from bed listening to the news and my thoughts are very much with all those on the other side of the Atlantic.

Friday 19 October 2012

Etching

I could write pages about how cool using Intaglio etching and printing is - but I won't. It's a complicated and exact process (used to great effect by Rembrandt, Goya and Picasso) but seems akin to alchemy when you peel the first printed piece of paper from your etched plate. I really clicked with this way of working and here are four of the prints I made over the last week.

French Surf
Lighthouse Coastline   
Autumn Leaves
View of Burgh Island
Finally, here is a funny strip of the boy and I at Muffin and Nick's wedding on my birthday. I'm a bowler-hatted tiger, while he appears to be some sort of cow-bear-butterfly concoction. What a party that was.


Friday 12 October 2012

Mind Bending

The title is a tribute to the geometric drawing I did this week (labelled so by my Dad). Great week, not much time to write more as I'm off to Devon with the boy for Muffin and J-Lo's wedding which happens to fall on my birthday! It's going to be brilliant, I'm sure. The other photo is of a series of 15 drawing all done using a combination of rules in black and finally, here is a (very bad quality) snap of my lovely new arty mates.




Friday 5 October 2012

More images, more words

I got told this week that I should write more on this blog. This goes directly against what someone said in the summer, but hey, I like writing so I am happy to go with this one! Despite having a horribly heavy cold (I blame those young' uns), college this week has been amazing. We had two more days of life drawing; one focusing on line, the other, on tone - followed by two days of 'Mark Making' (my piece is HUGE: 1.75m by 1m). We then looked at animation briefly. It is all making me wonder where I will go next - perhaps more study, either in fine art or animation possibly (the latter is thought to be the 'sensible' career move). I'm not really concentrating on my next move though as I'm just loving having this much time to devote to art. Today, we spent the afternoon in the Courtauld looking at the leap into "Modernism' through Manet. It's fascinating stuff. And apart from art stuff, I got treated to a super lovely swanky meal by the boy on Thursday. What a star he is.