ScrawlrBox April Edition and my work from last month is in the Zine!

Got the new Scrawlrbox and a lovely surprise to see my work along with a few others from last months Scrawlerchallenge was published! 
My new Instagram @illustrationdry, please find me & follow!

Re-working an old poster!

A revamp of an old railway poster to reflect the times. Not to attract tourists but to keep them away!  A new print made to look old with the use of ink and a sponge.
Hopefully everything will return to some normality in the coming months. 

Acrylic on Canvas Board - GeorgeMichael

I did this in between everything else, it took a long, long.....long time to complete!  I cannot decide if its worthy enough of framing!

The Ink cartridge colour chart!

Canvas Board / Acrylic & Ink

I have no idea what I am creating some times. I just started this piece on a canvas board and then it just developed. I used black and white and grey and the colours; Cyan, magenta and yellow! All done in acrylic and black ink for the outlines. Each model represents the decades of NYC fashion. This is also my interpretation in they hand drawn type face. The serious fashion of the 1960's, the 1970's disco, the 1980's styled and digital and the Street fashioned Club kid of 1990's. I don't know why I took this one and ran with it from a simple idea but I did! It is now framed and signed. 30" x 22".

Creating Art?

I had a large 40" x 32" canvas that I had intended to use, but it sat in the garage for months and months. I decided upon a whim to use it.
I wanted to take into account the chance of creating a piece of art that would appeal locally and also use some of the experience gained so far from the education of the courses I have been studying!

I primed the canvas and mixed some acrylic and created a background, onward from that point I decided to go with Derwent Charcoal blocks! This canvas has been now living in our dining room for weeks and weeks, once finished I sealed....
...then decided I didn't like it, I reworked the building shapes and defined some more lines and added some harsher colouration, which got lost from the fixing. I re-fixed and now am pleased with the results!

Still trying to keep up with illustrating!

With course work and just working full time in general and life it can be a struggle to set aside time to create non-course work art or illustrations. I have a small A5 book which I am slowly building up with some various pieces. Some I just create on a whim and some I spend a few moments here and there while I can! 

You can have a look at my Instagram here, and follow me if you feel like you want to! 
My Instagram!

My Assignment work has come back home!!

My assignment work came back! It seems such a long time ago already!! I have had an hour looking through my learning log book and reflecting on the pieces that went to be marked. My A4 sketchbook also accompanied the work. I was disappointed with my percentage at first, but using this as a positive I can now understand certain points from the tutors feedback and relevance to what needs to be achieved. Hopefully through my next couple of stages I can up-gain my marks.