A sketch a night

I started a few days ago doing a sketch a night, just to force myself to create every day so here are the sketches I have done so far. Sorry for the strange alterations, these were from instagram.

In your Hands

 

 ~ Digital Photography ~

All work is available to purchase. If you are interested in purchasing any of the work on my blog please leave me a comment or message and I will get into contact with you to discuss prices and delivery. Thank you.

Listening to the Earth

~ Digital Photography ~

All work is available to purchase. If you are interested in purchasing any of the work on my blog please leave me a comment or message and I will get into contact with you to discuss prices and delivery. Thank you.

Still Life 2012

~Digital Photography ~

All work is available to purchase. If you are interested in purchasinbg any of the work on my blog please leave me a comment or message and I will get into contact with you to discuss prices and delivery. Thank you.

Recording Ballerina

 

~Melted Records and carboard support~

This is a piece which was inspired by Angelo Bramanti and Giuseppe Siracusa who are the creators of the L017 website which takes old unwanted things and creates something new with them. I especially loved their piece 4evaD. The idea to meld the records into the shape of the lower half of a ballerina came while eperimentation regarding how the records melted. I started with the skirt which reminded me of a ballerina doing a spin and then took it from there. 

I deliberately did not include the torso or head and arms of the ballerina to make it more general, rather than specific to a particular person or movement. Instead i wanted it to simply show the flowing and calming actions of these professional dancers using a medium that is so closely linked. After all, Music and dancing go hand in hand.

The base I made in two parts to try and mimic the way the spot light falls on these ballerinas as they dance as well as other performers.

As a secondary note, VERY hard to photograph a shiny pure black object!

Picton

~Oil on canvas~

A painting using oils and a photograph my mother took on a trip down to the country.

Detail of my favourite part of the painting:

Personal memories

 

~Ink and Acrylic on watercolour paper~ 

 Each drawing/painting is approximately 20 x 15[cm]

A series based on memory. I've always been interested in how we remember things. When I was given this topic I started some research into this and discovered that in fact our memories are only small points of interest. We store only a small amount of a memory, a series of flashed images which our brain then, when retrieving the memory puts into order and joins the dots, filling in the blanks.

I am planning on doing a lot more of these little images and adding them to these so that hopefully by the end of the full project I'll have about 50 of these small drawings.