Category: Experiments

Exciting to imagine the sculpture on the painting. Three stage of translating the sculpture onto the projector. I was about to begin drawing the sculpture free hand on the acetate but then I realised why am I not just printing the image and tracing it? I did this and it worked like a dream! It […]

This is the first big painting of this term, but my process and scale etc is all built on what I was doing the term before. There are however a few changes I made to the painting process for this piece which has changed because of feedback I have had on previous paintings, and the […]

I was writing in my sketchbook that I wanted this final sculpture of the term to be geometric. But when I sketched ideas out in my sketchbook I realised that fan faults are the most iconic Cathedral architectural feature, so this is a shape I need to explore! This shape is both simple and intricate […]

Why haven’t I done this before!? I was home one evening talking about my work and I was reminded of using a projector to project shapes onto the canvas to get proportions right etc. SO I found an overhead projector – I chose this instead of a digital one because I can still hand draw […]

First of all I did a series of sketches in my sketchbook, this was the most successful and so I wanted a sketch like this but more refined on the painting. Turns out it is a lot harder to paint this shape onto the painting than I expected!! Problems with the process of this experiment: […]

I thought it would be useful to see how the sculpture will look in the painting, giving me an idea of how a drawing would look in real life. The right hand angle looks way better, the angle on the right makes the shape look flat and not dimensional. I discovered this in my sketchbook […]

This went terribly!!! I did no practice, I just started on the paper – turns out that was not a good idea! I first mapped out only the lines, following the pattern I made when drawing the sculpture straight on. But the shape didn’t make any sense. So i blocked in the white to see […]

Location I painted outside just now to prepare the page for the sculpture test drawing I’m going to put on top. This was the first painting in this style I have done in what seems like a while! This is not really true, but compared to last term I have been doing less painting outside. […]

After a tutorial about my work I wanted to try out paper mache. It sounded like it had the potential to be a lot finer and more delicate than clay, and also much stronger than clay and not subject to cracking. I designed the shape being far more precise than I have made designs in […]