Thursday, March 29, 2012

Umbrellas

So here's the piece I submitted for the charity auction in work. Its a piece I did ages ago for a boulder gallery Franners was doing. It's originally part of a triptych but Sinead loves the other drawings so i kept them. Probably do some more now too.

The piece itself is an A6 postcard drawn using blue ink. Think my favorite umbrella is the one at the back.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

2 posts in one night!

So in work we have a gallery set up for a charity auction. And Estrela and Bianca have been pushing for people to produce some work. The image I submitted was an old "umbrela" one so I'll post that tomorrow. But here's the image I did tonight.

Obviously I'm a huge Mignola fan, and well it does have an effect on my work. But hey, that can't be bad right. The image is named after the song I was listening to on the way home from work today, by the great Wolf Parade.

It was maybe gonna be a profile pic change for facebook too.

Life drawin'

So Boulder has set up life drawing sessions for us in work. Been a couple of years since I sat in a room doing this, so alot of the work was fairly rough, but I was happy with a couple, and most had some sections I liked.  They were all gesture drawings ranging from 30 secs to 5 mins.

 

 The First 2 were from the first 30 mins section. The first drawing was picked out during the review as a good drawing by the people in the class. Was a bit shocked by that. The last drawing was picked out during the second review. It was picked for the change in approach I used. I tried to use purely straight lines for it. I wanted the pose to look ridget like model appeared to be.

Within 5 minutes of being in the class I was pretty happy. Although I dropped into some old techniques I like to think Beth Spenader was sitting behind me egging me on again. The drawing off the page was at times a deliberate thing. Working on A3 I wanted the drawings to be too big for the page (something Beth use to encourage me to do in college)