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.

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!

I did lots of prints!!

So I had a go at etching and screen printing.

Nothing very planned, just playing - here are the results.

My Etching:

My Screenprints: 

Screenprint + Monoprint

Going back to my finger painting roots.

At a bit of loose end today so thought I'd have a childish art moment and finger paint!

Here's my favourite of the few quick ones I did which kind of evolved into a face.

Belated Fathers Day

First post-project art piece!

Unfortunately, both me and my dad were busy on Fathers Day so I have only just had time to ask what theme he would like his Fathers Day art piece to be and he chose: cycling!

If anyone knows my dad this will have been fairly predictable as he is Captain cycling/Tour De France/Lycra/Racing Bike man.

Here's the best piece which was his present:

Reject piece of the Tour de France:

Getting my abstract on.

Day Twenty Eight: Painting a feeling/idea.

So today I decided to keep things spontaneous as I had the idea of painting a feeling and about 15 minutes later the painting was done - trying not to let myself over-think it.

I think it might be interesting to not say what feeling I painted and see what other people get from it. Let me know!

A Medicinal Flower

Day Twenty Seven - Art using items to do with medication.

This piece is made from approximately one months worth of my families mental health related medication (the medical minded among you may even be able to work out exactly how mental my family is!).

I decied to make it into a sort of flower just because I thought trying to create an attractive organic shape out of something very cold and manufactured looks - not to mention something that can make people uncomfortable - might be interesting.

I think people would be surprised by how many medication flowers blossom in households they think they know.