Assignment 1 - Self Portrait

Beginning with an outline pencil drawing - I'm going to use thread, Inktense pencils.

Artist Focus - Cayce Zavaglia - Portrait and Process

Interesting video on artist working with thread.  I much prefer the back of her thread paintings to the front!

Assignment 1 -Study for Self portrait

Mark making with Inktense pencils in areas pre moistened with water.  Using marks that look like thread/stitches.

Assignment 1- Self portrait study

20 minute self portrait study in pen, ink and crayon. 

Assignment 1 -Still Life complete

This is the second completed piece in this assignment.  As I mentioned before, this work is based on a drawer of machine parts etc from a disused shirt factory.  The composition has strong areas of interest and the watercolour support has added a broken textural surface.  Technically, it works, but suffers from a lack of an evident contextual reference - although I would contend that there are subconscious traces of Diego Rivera's mural painting in there.

http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/konstantinsscrapbook/files/2010/12/Rivera-Diego-The-Arsenal-1928.jpg

The subject matter itself alludes to the demise of shirt making in Derry and it's once premier role in the world of garment manufacture.  

Alice Kettle - Painting with Thread

Alice Kettle is an embroiderer who originally trained as a painter. Her figurative works particularly demonstrate this.

Still Life - Assignment 1

Almost complete

Still Life - Assignment 1

Rather than setting up a still life for this assignment, I chose a group of objects that had come together by accident.  These objects had been thrown together in a large box in a local shirt factory.  I liked the random composition of the objects that, despite the fact that the arrangement was by chance, still managed to have balance.  This work is in a range of media - pencil, pen and inktense pencil on rough watercolour paper.

Still Life - Assignment 1 - development

A later stage - approx 5 hours work.

Turner Prize - Derry-Londonderry

The Turner Prize is being exhibited outside England for the first time this year - in Derry/Londonderry - UK City of Culture 2013, which just happens to be my home town.

I visited it a couple of weeks ago and saw the work of 3 of the artists - the queques for Laure Prouvost's installation were very long so I have to go back and see that - she was announced as the winner on Monday night.

The four nominees were - David Shrigley, Tino Seghal, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.


http://www.turnerprize2013.org/content/derrylondonderry-and-turner
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/article/turner-prize-art-in-derry

This is me having a go at drawing David Shrigley's Life Model.

Chiharu Shiota

http://media.trendland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chiharu-shiotas-installations-10.jpg

Fabric as Material and Concept in Art

I've been considering why I have such an affinity with fabric as a material.  

My recent experiments in drawing with thread have led me to this book which is actually a very large exhibition catalogue.  

Drawing with thread - in progress

Turner Prize -David Shrigley

Drawing with Thread - Work in Progress