Category Archives: Drawing

Bridesmaid

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After a fairly hectic period of finishing my last two projects, I’m struggling to get started again.  I think this is part of the creative process – you can’t keep producing endlessly without putting something back.  Time, I think, to do some ‘inputting’ – looking around me, visiting galleries, looking at other people’s work, looking at books.  And drawing, because drawing helps me to process ideas, and it is a simple, manageable, portable activity.  Here’s one I did yesterday.

Bridesmaid

7B Pencil in sketchbook

‘Only One’ – Artists Book of Unique Monoprints

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As requested by Mithi, here is the full monoprint book.  The page spreads appear differently in the book, as I have scanned the A4 sheets which I then folded back on themselves (to A5 size) to make the book pages.  I bound the book using a Japanese stab-binding, which holds all the paper edges together.  The centre folds then form the right-hand page edges.

The multi-coloured images use oil pastel to create an ‘ink pad’ which I then monoprinted from.  The other images use oil paint rolled out thinly onto a perspex plate using a brayer.  Each page in the book is protected with a sheet of tracing paper.

 All the images were drawn using my non-dominant hand, and using an empty pen so that I couldn’t see the image properly until I finished it and turned the paper over to see the inked print. 

Front cover

‘Only One’ page 1

‘Only One’ Page 2

‘Only One’ Page 3

‘Only One’ Page 4

‘Only One’ Page 5

‘Only One’ Page 6

‘Only One’ Page 7

Hidden depths

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hidden depths

Charcoal on paper.

I drew this with no initial intention, and no visual reference.  With a blank sheet of paper in front of me, I started to scribble at random.  This baby image kind of appeared, so I worked to enhance it.  The basic pose I think was in my memory from one of my childhood photographs, but I didn’t refer back to that photo.  I like the effect of the build up of scribble marks and eraser marks.  It was also a good way to free me up to start drawing again, as I’ve been a bit ‘stuck’ lately.

Julie’s drawing

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Remember this photo from just over a year ago?  Well take a look at this beautiful drawing of it by my friend Julie Meese.  I’d never have the patience to draw like this.  While you’re over there, have a look at her vibrant abstract paintings.

Mandy and Tiger

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Mandy and Tiger

This is the start of an experimental series.  I wanted to do something to set up my own narratives, so I’ve used dolls and toys to create stories.   I’ve aimed for a deliberately illustrative type of drawing (ink and wash) to create a sense of ‘fairy tale’.  Very much work in progress, and lots more playing to do!