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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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This week I started the above work on the first of my exhibition pieces, I decided that alongside my main seven portraits I am doing I am also going to do smaller portraits of family members to broaden my exhibition work and really make it feel like I’ve explored every familiar face in my life.
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This week I started working on two smaller portraits as I have decided to go along my central portraits I am going to have some smaller ones of my family, presented a bit like how nineteenth century family portraits would be like. I have decided that unlike the central portraits which I have decided to
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This week started with me accidentally removing the portrait that I had previously applied to this stone using gum transfer, I used too strong of an etch which wiped the portrait off completely, I thought perhaps maybe some would be brought back after inking the stone up in the second etch but alas it did
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