2011 Landscapes

This project began with a trip to the beach and marine lake on a day forecast for hurricane whether, the purpose of this wasc sketch with gestural marks to allow emotion into the work.

A3 graphite and charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal and chalk

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal

A3 compressed charcoal and graphite

A3 compressed charcoal

I've began to use paint, to relate to the artists i had been looking at including; Ivon Hitchens, Paul Nash and Peter Lanyon developing the sketches I produced from the beach and lake.  

A3 paint

I've stuck to monochromatic colours although the artists do incorporate colour in their work, i want to keep a sinister appearance, this is a piece i reworked by darkening the skyline and lake with layers of diluted indian ink.

A3 paint and ink

A3 paint and ink

A1 Paint and ink

A6 pen and wash sketches, mimicking Joseph hermans technique.

A5(ish) greatly influenced by Nicola Hicks' brown paper and paint with image ontop, keeping John Virtue's sinisism and Joseph hermans mark making.

These more detailed images are not as strong as the following images with less  detailed information, I have also drawn sections of the image, applied paint and emphisized the outline with a further layer of ink. This has created subtle undertones.

2010 Twisted and Intertwined

The title of the brief was Twisted and intertwined. I began by producing some ink sketches of hands that were 'twisted and intertwined'/interlocked. The mark making was chosen with inspiration from Gerald Scarfe's illustrations.

These are the prints of a dry point etching. The technique was thought of, firstly to produce a strong image of linear lines that could be repeated and worked over, and also from looking at Ralph Steadman's etchings. His work has imperfections in the form of blotches of ink on the print, so i have used a similar idea to create imperfections of my own.

I have used colour, both in the form of the ink applied directly to the etching and over the top of a monochromatic print, to explore themes of colour i could look into later in the project.

Ive gone back to sketching, this time using charcoal to emphisize tonal qualities in the hands.

Again emphisis on tonal qualities, but in colour using watercolour which is softer colouring and blending in contrast to the dark heavy lines produced by the charcoal.

Re-visiting the use of ink, developing a more complex image, with multiple hands intertwined, gradually developing into colour, incorportating both Ralph Steadman's imprefections on the page, and Gerald Scarfe's sketchy illustations.

Same image, but using techniques of colour and shading from Edward Ardizzone.

As i was looking at illustrators, i decided to find a text to illustrate that linked to both the twisted and intertwined and the theme of hands. I found a quote from Carol Ann Duffy's poem Moments of Grace

'Now i take off my watch, let a minute unravel in my hands,'

2010 People At Work

Originally my idea was to do a painted project using stanley spencer as a source of inspiration, so started with with charcoal to determine tone for future paintings.

This did not interest me as much as i firdt thought it would, so changed my approach completely, looking at the work of Mike Bernard (a collage artist who uses a mixed media surface, with a wash and layer of white paint where the lighter areas of the image will be/ areas without collage, then draws the outline in white paint, defines detail with black and colours the image with watered down paint whether it be gouache, acrylic or watercolour.