Week 2 of 21 ...

Essay to finish, drawings to do, more designing, and samples this week ... just a bit to do but still loving it all.

Looking forward to seeing our tutors work at the 'REPEAT' private view tonight.

Good Friends ...

So feeling a little lost not having life drawing class over the Christmas break, some of my wonderful friends kindly modelled for me.



The drawings from the first "class" did not work out as well as I would have hoped, but I tried out different markings and was happy with the shape of this one. Calum is obviously very athletic, which was really good to draw as he has more of a ballet stature than some of the models I have drawn before.





I was really pleased with how the drawings of Ruairdh turned out, as I was drawing in a sketchbook (not used a book for life drawing before) and I also used a proper pen and pencil to draw him, which again I had not used for this before.

Happy New Year!

So again, over the holiday period I have been useless with updating my blog! But it is a New Year and a fresh start :) , so I will begin my blog in 2012 with some photos from the shoot I did in December.
Having handed in last term and feeling a little lost until results came back, I organised a photo shoot in the woods. Making 6 sets of wings from various materials and using different techniques, my wonderful friends braved the cold at 8am on a Sunday morning. I am so happy with how these photos turned out and enjoyed experimenting with how to portray wings in different ways.
I took most of the photos myself but one my models is a photography student and took some for his portfolio too. The black and white photo from this selection was taken by Mabon Llyr - check out his website http://www.mabonllyr.com/

22.11.11.....

Trying to decide on 'patterns' for our 8 samples we are doing for Indigo, Première Vision, I realised I didn't pop up some of my drawings from our workshop with Les and Martyn. I loved the workshop, we had to bring in a 3x3x3cm object and did lots of exercises such as drawing with both hands crossed over, with our opposite hand, without the object in front of us etc! Admittedly I kind of prefer my drawings with my left hand, as they were much more free. Anyhoo, here are a few of my drawings ...

The one on the orange background almost looks like a persons legs...?

Laser Cutting ...

This morning was my first time on the laser cutter completely on my own (scary thought I know) but I'm quite pleased with how my samples worked out

Fly away ...

So I happened to have some wings hanging around, and my life drawings just staring at me ... this is what happened ...

Life Drawing 2.11.11

Second proper life drawing class today - so gutted its not more often, but we had a lovely female model today.