You may recognise this drawing as it is a development of my earlier fern drawings. When I was doing my first experiments in paper and in the different workshops one of my lecturers noticed my interest in natural forms and geometrical shapes and pointed out how even my organic ink drawings could be transformed into geometric shapes.
I therefore decided to develop my ink drawing of dead fern into a geometrical form.
Shortly after being given our Spoon project we had a textiles print workshop. We were asked to bring a drawing with us to photocopy so I decided to use this.
I painted ink onto the photocopies and then placed them face down on fabric in a heat press. The ink from the photocopies repels the ink you paint on it so when it is transferred the image is in negative.
I really enjoyed working in this way and had fun layering and playing with colour. I thought autumnal would be appropriate and look beautiful.
As we had just been given the Spoons project I developed this work into spoon prints.
I am really pleased with these, especially as I am not usually as enthusiastic about working in 2D but these were fun to do and really successful.
Category Archives: Ink
Home for the Weekend!
I am back in Swansea for weekend! Yay!
Seeing my parents, grandparents and my sister!
Also means I get to use the scanner too so here is some stuff I wanted to post a while back.
Spicy Art
I’ve been in University for two weeks now!
Freshers week was good fun and I’ve had a decent week of the actual course.
Even went on a trip to the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester on Friday!
Anyway, more about that in another post.
Last week we were given a task to draw something boring but make it interesting.
As a student I have now had to start cooking for myself (scary!) and this give me the idea of drawing a pan. I then thought of a clever way of making the drawing interesting – painting it with spices!
This is actually something I have been wanting to do for ages and this seemed like the perfect opportunity!
I drew this pan in ink and then painted it with paprika. I then finished it with a sprinkling of cinnamon and mixed herbs.
Smells fantastic!
Carew Castle
Induction day is tomorrow!! Getting nervous! I’m excited too though.
Anyway, moving back into the house in Hereford and meeting another of my housemates has distracted me from doing any more posts, so I’m finally posting these drawings I did a while back of Carew Castle.
Trees
I have drawn three different trees in three different medias.
I have used pencil, charcoal and ink to capture different characteristics of the trees (the trees were not completely bare of leaves I just find the branches much more interesting).
Pencil shows the complexity of the branches,
Charcoal emphasises the texture of the bark
and using ink was a fantastic way to capture how the tree has grown due to the wind.
Dead Plant
It’s almost time.
A week Monday I will be starting as a student at Hereford College of Arts. Scary!
Having said that I have already moved in to my house in Hereford and met two of the other students I will be living with. I spent a few days there recently and really enjoyed. I will be going back on the 26th giving me a few days to settle in again before starting my course.
Before starting the course we have been asked to fill a sketchbook, drawing from life and experimenting in different medias.
I have a particular liking for ink.
