Sketchbook Project 2012 - Mr.Smith

Interpretive Portraits #3

"Mr.Smith"

• Graphite, Permanent Ink, Graph Paper. 

Thanks to James for allowing me to include his face in the sketchbook project!

Sketchbook Project 2012 - "Beltane Beauties"

Interpretive Portraits #2

"Beltane Beauties"

• Mixed Media; Watercolour, Watercolour Pencils, Wax Resist, Pastel Pencils, Acrylic, Fineliner, Mandalas.

Thanks to Claire Goldilox for volunteering her families faces!

Sketchbook Project 2012 - "Toothless Pirates"

Interpretive Portraits #1

"Toothless Pirates"

• Mixed Media; Watercolour, Wax Resist, Pastel Pencils, Acrylic, Fineliner.

Thanks to Claire Goldilox for volunteering her families faces!

 

Sketchbook Project 2012 - Extinction

Rocky Mountain Locust. Extinct. 

• Where fictitious beings originate.
• Mixed-media study.

Sketchbook Project 2012 - Extinction

Carolina Parakeet. Extinct. 

• Species are fading into fiction, fast. Mainly due to human influence.
• Watercolour, Fineliner, Wax Resist, Watercolour Pencil.

Sketchbook Project 2012 - Statement of Intent

 

"Hanging your Life in a Story..."

Considered:   

• Fiction as our collective comprehension;

• A means of understanding the human condition,
•  Binding us to our cultural existence.

Practiced:

• Expression to externalise our collective internal
• And to explain our subconscious via intuitive visual methods;
• Visual tales and abstraction. 

Method:

• Mixed-media collage. Symbolism. Fragmented prose.
• This Page; Acrylic, newsprint transfer. Watercolour. Striped mulberry paper, japanese grid masking tape...
• And the (de)constructed statement of intent.

Sketchbook Project 2012

Method

• Reclaimed and recycled vintage fabrics; Patch-worked and tea-stained.
• Image-transferred original artwork. 
• Fragmented quotations; A Scanner Darkly. 
• Permanent ink. Graphite. 
• Sewing Machine work. Hand stitch work. 
• Reinforced spine, remnants of patchwork, masking tape, nylon thread.  
• Elasticated clasp...and a vintage button.

Beetle