Life Drawing

i'm back...

I have been working on some things... as I keep saying but never posting. I have an idea for an animation and did a rough start sketch to get into the process... I am enjoying it but realise that i have heaps to learn. I set up my camera on a tripod and starting drawing. I want to refine the images and possibly work in a different media. But for now as a sketch its a start.



More images of my paintings and drawings to follow shortly!

blue monday

apparently today is the most depressing day of the year, i did not notice but there is even a site to help people cope with the blues. well it is freezing but its okay. Going to do some studying/writing tonight, so 'll keep it short. Pic is a sketch of ideas for a painting.

Some new drawings

I have been working or playing on some drawings, they are sketches or doodles really. I took out some books from the college library... one on Rodin, i suppose the idea was to prepare myself visually for seeing the exhibition. And i am still minus life drawing classes, so i thought it could not harm. Anyway, without over discussing them, these are images of states of mind and states of being and hybrids, inspired by various images that i like. something like that, anyway i like them.

also, some little symbols which i thought could be buttons or an alphabet or something, started with doodling something that reminded me of a part of my fourth year exhibition, but now i am playing with them. everyday object, sayings, emotions, shapes that give the idea of things but don't quite represent them. (thought of willem boshoff's blind alphabet) This process seems to be working because, i am getting all excited about the symbolism of things and the stories that link in, basically i am biting into what i love again. reading Tori Amos' biography, she's got some interesting ideas.

any of you at home.... can you tell me other names for what the americans call sand dollars... those flat sea urchin skeletons.

patterns in reflections

Okay so I've skipped a day, still better than nothing. I am really enjoying my drawing and i keep on seeing new forms emerging from the reflections. I was looking through some of my old photos the other day and i noticed that i have quite a number of reflections and water. the drawing is big (height 1.5m). It is so wonderful to be working on this scale again, it as been such a long time, i did not realise how cramped i was really feeling. I am working in acrylic washes and charcoal as a start... we'll see how it goes.

day two

Anyway back to some images... on tuesdays i get to work in a creative skills lesson and for the last few weeks the lecturer has been drawing some basic shapes for the students to complete as characters of their own. I have never really tried to draw like this before, but stole the chance to draw some of my own