Sketchbook pt I

Some rough bits and pieces that might not make it any further than my sketchbook, but I quite like anyway. And some things I'm going to be working on a bit more yet..!

Printmaking

I've been meaning to post about this for a while as last week I went to pick up the work I did on a short course at Camberwell art college. I'd saved the pennies and decided, as I didn't do anywhere near as much printmaking at university as I'd have liked to, I'd give it a go! I did the 'Introduction to Printmaking', as although I'd done a tiny bit of etching in my first year I'd always wanted a go at litho and had no idea where to start. Brian Hodgson tutored a group of 7 of us (check his work it's incredible) and I already want to go back and do it again as there's SO much more I want to do. Guess I might have to go back to art school..

First day Mono printing..literally no idea what i was doing so picked the brightest colour possible to show that!

I think the accidental marks I made in litho helped this image a lot..

Three stages of my etching plate. Quite a lot of foul biting but I was assured that it 'helped' the fox. Still not sure though!

Lino with a colour fade.

Happy Easter!

In the spirit of things.

MNAC

A couple of photos of a little commission for a friend of a friend. She was quite specific with what she wanted, and I was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I hope she was happy with the result!

Robins.

Playing about with my paints over last weekend, as I couldn't leave the house due to the snow.

Quite enjoyed painting these little fella's though.

Another Critter...

a commission for a Christmas present.
Lovely story surrounding this, a nice man asked me for a giraffe for his girlfriend for Christmas as they'd both seen my Kino Feuer stuff (below) - but she also emailed me to organise a 'surprise' present for him! I expect both were surprised! haha.

Horticulture

I was asked by the lovely Sophie Charara to do a piece of work for an exhibition that she was organising to showcase new and emerging talent. The theme was 'Common People' and I (very loosely!) based my work on different perceptions of culture in and around the London Underground. This meant a lot of researching of many different 'common climbing plants', in which I am definitely NOT an expert! I now know what nasturtiums look like, and quite a lot about various climbing weeds.

Big big thank you to Sophie and also gorgeous Sophie Caldecott - both write for Style and Then Some, definitely worth a gander!

Thanks to Bonnie Moriarty and Sophie Powell for being my support/drinking pals for the night xx