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.