Ella Gurr
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For the end of my degree alongside my exhibition I wrote an essay about my work, the research, inspiration and method behind everything that led up to how and why I created the pieces I did. I thought I would share this on here as I am proud of my writing and hope that it
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The portraits are all done and finally I can compile them all onto this blog post. Looking at them all together really is heartwarming as it is really privilege that I have been able to express all the people closest to me at the centre of my identity, people who make my life what it
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This was it the last week to print everything that needed to be printed and I managed it. I had three stones left to draw and print, this consisted of a self-portrait I decided to do last minute, one last background to print over the portrait of my friend Ameesha and two portraits of my
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The second to last week left of time in the studio, this week was a sunny week, so the walks into the school of art each day looked like the below picture I took early on in the week – motivating weather. This week was a mission to get nearly all the backgrounds of my
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It is the final week before Easter and I still have a lot of printing left to do and preparation for after Easter. I started this week completing the portrait of my Dad. After correcting the disproportions in his face I was really happy with how this overall portrait looks. Out of all the portraits
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After finishing my mum and my brothers portraits I have begun three new ones, two being close friends of mine and the other of my Dad. Now I have already done two portraits I am finding that my technique is improving using the korn crayons for drawing. I am becoming more able to create these
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In my last blog post I mentioned my slight unsuccessful day trying to print the background to the print below but as you can see in the image below I have achieved it this week! It took a long time of trial and error and a lot of printing on newsprint but I got there.
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This week consisted of printing the below image of my brother, a portrait I very much enjoyed drawing, the composition and details of the portrait came together really well. Using a razor to scrape away the crayon I managed to get a fine reflection on the glasses to give the portrait a little more life
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I thought I would take a moment just now to slow down and write about my thoughts and how I reflect on my portraits throughout this whole process as these feelings really displays why I am doing this for my third year exhibition and what it really means to me. Every now and again after
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Week six, almost halfway through the term now so I am having to pick up the pace slightly on my work. Having started the first of my exhibition pieces last week I was hoping to have a full week wherein I get both stones printed and some successful portraits achieved from it. I started this
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