Category: art

This was the second Table piece, again based on sketches of the machine part templates. It’s another piece around A2 in size. The background stain was done over a few days, building up colour after colour. On an aside, these watercolour pieces aren’t a perfect reflection of the actual works – watercolour has an amazing variability depending on the lighting conditions it’s being viewed under, mainly due to the mechanics of light refraction and reflection within the layers of paint. You really need to see them under true sunlight, the downside being sunlight degrades the pigments eventually.

The actual idea with this was to mess with scale and try to work very small, so having filled the bottom, knowing what to do for the top was a bit of a mystery. The long bone-like template came to the rescue, and so it ended up being reminiscent of a steampunk type vista of airships over a city.

This was my first work in our table series of drawings. The objects were wooden positive templates for producing moulds of machine parts.

The A2 sized piece is on watercolour paper which was stained with the blue watercolour paint, then the drawing was done using a skewer dipped in ink, and applied right-handed (I’m a lefty). I’m happy with the small touches of red, and the blue areas that break the shapes with multiple overlaid perspective. An important lesson in this piece was using a broken and frayed skewer, and rolling it while advancing perpendicular to the roll to apply a line texture over and over, sortof like repeated stencilling.

Produced for the collage project. I wanted to try working big on this one, so it’s around A0 size.

The very first rough planning versions had the central black box and strips offset slightly higher of centre. I brought it back to centre for a sense of symmetry, but looking back at photos, I really prefer the off-centre version. I see why my drawing teacher used to keep telling me symmetry was something of which to be wary.

This was produced as a part of the collage project we did at college, and was actually a recycling effort for paper staining that was done for a failed piece.

Each panel is a little under A4 in size.