Fern Ideas.

Some ideas for the new design.

More circles of girls.

A drawing for a new design done today.

women drawings

some drawings i did at the start of the year i think. just initial drawings. not sure what i will do with them at the moment. my favourite is the bottom one. I was also playing around with the idea of teaming up the figurative drawings with looser abstract shapes/textures.

Girl and house drawing

I completed this drawing this week, which was quite a challenge. A real test of focus, but I am happy with it as a piece on it's own. I will be printing it up at some stage though too. perhaps just simply as it is, or with other layers.

girl circle drawing

people patterns

Whilst snowed in today i had a play around with some drawings I had done. I'm thinking along the lines of patterns and cycles, and prefer the more simple ones really - the single layers. I think it may be possible to add to them, but with different imagery, perhaps more simplistic so as not to make it too complicated. I am thinking i would like to get better versions of these photocopied on to A1 cartridge paper using the college Repro Graphics department, and then maybe print other layers on top of them. Just an initial thought from today's activities. Or maybe collage could also work too.

Repeated Pattern Circle

I've been considering working my new drawings into a pattern to work with the printed drawings I had been working on. I just photocopied a drawing to repeat it and see how it would work. I think this could go somewhere, but whether to use the same image repeated or separate images, I'm not quite sure yet.

I think this image works well with the pattern layer behind it. Obviously I placed it on top quickly and didn't bother to work it into the circle properly.

And I think it would work well with both the patterned circles also.

geese

This was just a trial in creating a repetitive pattern with some photocopies of a drawing. not sure if i'll take it any further though. i kept the drawing pretty simple with just slightly more detail in the wings.

figurative trials

the latest news that i failed to say anything about is that i got some funding for a new project. this is through forth valley councils and the scottish arts council. I'll write about that properly soon i think. these are a couple of drawing i did today in an effort to move to more figurative work. more info to come...

drawings

been doing more drawing this week.

the one below i worked on first when the paper was wet, then let it dry and worked over the top. the results weren't that interesting as you really couldn't see the double layer of drawing.

i then tried doing the marks in pencil and played around with tracing, reversing and mirroring parts of the image.

I also played with bringing patterns together, with also part of the drawing done when wet. this was done on sugar paper.

idea for new lino portrait

thinking to do another lino print at some point and found an interesting picture of an old scottish fisher man, which i thought could be interesting...