A few life drawings.

Here are a few different styles of life drawing - I'm not entirely convinced by my life drawing skills thus far but we shall see.

My face is a lamp.

Although a lot of people who have seen my latex face cast and been freaked out by it - I rather like it. Not in a narcissistic way but because of the texture and the eerie effect created by the thin latex in front of a light.

It is cast of a cast of my face (if that makes sense). The initial face cast was done with plaster and mod rock which creates, not only a good cast, but also adds an interesting texture unlike, say, alginate castings.

I think it looks a bit like an ultrasound.

The piece unlit. 

She was a bad egg . .

The technician where I study art made an egg box out of hair and suggested that it would be nice is six student were to make an egg each to go in the box.

I was considering the eggshell I was using and enjoyed its fragility. I thought it would be nice to contrast this fragility in some way. The result . . 

It is made from wax poured into an egg shell. I then embedded nails into the still setting wax. 

A bad egg. 

Audition

While exploring metal work I decided to try a very conceptual piece and see how it turned out.

I was preoccupied with an audition I was going to have in the evening so I made a piece of the audition experience I was having.

Sealed in the metal spheres are negative thoughts I always have when auditioning.

The abstract Goblet represents the play and the love of acting - it is beautiful and strong but at the heart of it are always the doubts. One just has to step back and realise how much stronger the love of acting is than the doubt - just accept the doubt will be there and lock it away.

p.s. apologies for the previously tragic grammar in the above statement, my mind must have been elsewhere while writing it!