Scribbles in the British Museum

We did glass work this week (so cool) but the kiln is now misbehaving so I'll have to wait till next week to see, and share, my first attempts in glass. In the meantime, here are some scribbles done in the British Museum last Friday.

Elgin Marble horse charging

Goya's meaty bulls

God-ward man in spit and ink

I'm doing some more product photography for the wonderful Marshmallowists who were featured in the Sunday Times Style magazine on page 7 this week. Go The Marshmallowists! I'll keep you all posted as to how I get on with snapping their luscious creations.

Jaguars

This week saw me doing a 2D design project, with the somewhat unusual brief of a marketable design derived from an image seen at the Pre-Raphaelite Avant Garde exhibition. I won't bore y'all with how my project developed but my issue with the exhibition's rigid depiction of nature, coupled with a bronze jaguar found in the V&A, ended eventually in this:

Wallpaper design

I then knocked off a few prints to use as cards. Speaking of which, thanks loads to those of you who have bought etchings - your support is much appreciated.

Cats abound

I love lino.

Oh Eden

Here is my version of the Garden of Eden (as described by Milton) for my diorama project. I ended up making an animation of the snake entering the garden through a cunning little snake hole in the wall. Apparently, 'paradise' comes from Persian and means 'walled garden', hence the back wall of the model is made to look like a brick wall in texture.

Latex tree and the start of the story

Here comes trouble

Paradise lost

 I really enjoyed creating my visual version of Eden - and learning the skills needed to do so. The mirrored pool you might be able to see is a nod to the Islamic version of paradise.

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.

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.

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.

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.