A low cost way to prevent calluses in under 60 seconds! Lots of drawing can cause painful hard skin on your hands where the pencil rests and rubs the finger. Here is a quick and easy way to prevent calluses on […]
So having completed another piece and submitting (and being accepted) to an online gallery I feel I have made some modest progress…and I’ll be honest – I’m really effing pleased. I feel as if this small progression has helped me […]
So my practice is still trickling along, I am still wondering if what I do fits with where I would like to end up, what I would like to achieve, can my drawings hold there own with others? These questions […]
We have been working hard, mostly Mike. The design of the mutable drawing surface is done and we are now ordering materials. We are scheduled to build it in March and are currently in talks about a possible exhibition in […]
Many thanks to Beth McIntire, Senior Curator Prints and Drawings, and Nick Thornton, Head of Fine and Contemporary Art, for giving up their time to show me the stored works on paper, prints and fantastic drawings by Gaudier-Brzeska. Since then […]
2014-2015 Bursary Report
So my first blog entry in over a week. I have been working mainly in various sketchbooks ambling around different ideas. I have not completed any “finished” as it were due to responsibilies outside of my practice – which in […]
Three artists address the crumbling or peeling back of the picture plane through drawing and painting.
I have started a new drawing unit where i will be experimenting with different techniques. so i thought the best way to start the project was to do a drawing in the style i work in and then refer back […]
So, whilst not having an awful lot of time to create drawings I have never taken seriously the importance of taking decent pictures of my work – and how it can change its imapct. Whilst a necessity for having good […]
Whilst working on a drawing today some rather obvious but important points sprung to mind, I realised that it is only through continuous practice that I as an artist can really understand 1. What I love and 2. What I […]
My large cross-stitch pattern is now finished, and I’m looking forward to starting to stitch it. You may remember that it’s inspired by Byzantine Church domes, and so the layout of the design corresponds with a traditional dome, but with […]
Some drawings of skyscrapers i have done following on from some of my photographs. I love using pen and ink in my works especially mixing different techniques together
I had a much needed break over Christmas and New Year – no studio work and very little other work – which gave me time to recuperate from a kidney infection which I’m sure I got from being run down […]
i reflected over night about something i wrote yesterday. the overall form for an stallation that i am currently programming the guts of the idea. it’s connected to adding to the chaos, after what collings said back in september about […]
We are way behind our initial schedule, mostly due to conflicting availabilities, which delayed when we could meet up and work. Also perhaps from the outcome of our workshops we didn’t realise the number of different routes we could take this project. […]
So the drawing is pushing on, albeit at a painstakingly slow pace, I often wonder now whilst I work why I put myself up for this kind of self inflicted torture whilst peering through a magnifying glass? However, the answer […]
The following post was written on the 15th November but due to an unforeseen event that involved my laptop’s hard drive dying, I wasn’t able to post it on here until now. The reason for the delay also strangely ties […]
If as Bourgeois alludes to in a letterpress work that; Art is a guaranty of sanity is true, then it must be said that being an art student is a guarantee of loosing it. Currently on display at Tate Modern […]
