Category Drawing for Fine Art

Jay Walker – Tape art Artist Jay Walker has been an inspiration of mine for my final piece and those leading up to it. His work with tape has inspired me to experiment and be more creative; to look at… Continue Reading →

Circling back to my experiments with drawing with music, I’m using the techniques from my body drawings to create a large piece that represents music and fluctuation.

Following the comments of my crit, I decided to do a performance piece and record myself putting paint on a large canvas of paper. I really enjoyed doing this and I really like the way the marks turned out on… Continue Reading →

Experiments responding to the crit comments: exploring the textures of my skin in the paint using charcoal and experimenting with how layers affect the effect of the marks.

The set up of this crit was a small group of us sat and observed each others work like a small exhibition. My peers discussed what they thought my work was about and what they liked and thought I should… Continue Reading →

Liu Bolin: Artist Liu Bolin is often referred to as “the invisible man” because of his creative practice that involves him using his body as a camouflage effect, merging himself with the surrounding environment. Bolin paints his body to become… Continue Reading →

Experimentation – taking body painting in a new direction: I’ve photocopied a charcoal drawing of myself and found it looks a lot more affective on the floor by itself, than with paint covering it, like in my other experiments with… Continue Reading →

Further experimentation with body painting: I find the look of paint on the skin and skin textures in paint really interesting, so I took some photos of the paint on my skin and I plan to collage the images and… Continue Reading →

Continuation of body experiments, focusing on small sections of marks from the original piece. For these, I’ve experimented with different ways of applying the paint and focused on what I liked best about the previous one, which was the skin… Continue Reading →

I’ve used my body to express my anxiety, – red and black are the colours I associate with my anxiety, I used paint on my arms to create skin marks and different shapes and used some willow charcoal over the… Continue Reading →