Lets Talk Stalls, Jewellery, Fabric and Exhibitions!!

Hello there!

I'm very sorry I haven't been very up to date with my artistic doings over the summer but I've been VERY busy. Some pretty amazing things have happened to me since finishing my Foundation in Art and Design. I've since been part of many stale festival for Vintage and Craft specialist buildings such as The Nichols Building, Sheffield.
I've since also been very involved in designing and crafting my own successful line of Ceramic Jewellery where I aimed to give new life and purpose to broken ceramic pieces I'd collected whilst beach combing in Sunny Cornwall.

I've also been busy designing my own fabric in America!  

My most recent large scale paper cut Framed Antler ' Flora and Fauna' are also currently on display in Corterie Gallery, Sheffield from the 1st October to the 31st.

For those interested in seeing my work in person I have provide a link below with all the information you'd need such as the address and opening times.

http://www.coteriegallery.co.uk/

Hope to see you there!

Sincerely

Alex

One Tone Etching Print - Purple

One Tone Etching

Two Tone Etching Print

Stitch Illustration - Fox

Ghost printing on Celll-O-Tape layered with Texture Paper.

The Combination of Fauna with Flora

Here I aimed to fill in the silhouette of the Deer and Antlers, I wanted to bring in the Floral patter I developed with fine liner.

Collage - Playing with positive and Negative

Collage and Fine Line observation of a Green Shield Beetle

 

Experimenting with Ghost Printing on Cell-O-Tape.

Observational Collage

Probably the most morbid work I've every produced, as the design was taken from observation of a 'presumed' deceased mouse laying on the water bank that cuts through my local Park. In this piece, I just utilises collage (scrap bits) from my primary made imagery to create this form.

Ink and Gel Liners Sketch

Fine Line Observational Drawings of Fauna Found at Wentworth Garden Centre

'Pattern in Fauna' Felt Tip

This is a small observational piece to which is focused on the simplistic pattern I could see from textures on animals skin, using felt tips and primary colours.

Birds Drawn from Observation aided by Home Made Feather Quil

Drawing with electric TAPE!

FMP - Positive VS Negative Board using Collage

FMP - Oil pastel and Ink Research

Experimentation: Silhuoettes and Fine line through the influence of Angie Lewin

Observational Drawings - Dried Flora

Mark Hearld - Research

Rob Ryan - Research

Angie Lewin - Research

Final Major Project - It Begins...

Campaign Poster - VOTE PAIGE

Being asked to design a student union votes campaign poster, commencing in
Dundee, I was really pleased to how it came out even under such a short deadline.

I tried to keep the deign quite minimalist in detail so as to make communication simple and easy, and I combined the imagery with a hand rendered style text so as to give the design a person touch (as to which was the theme: personal).

Mixed media:
Collage and line drawing, enhanced digitally.

Road Sign Landmark - Collage and Line Drawing

Exotic Birds - Watercolour and Inks

Road Sign Landmark - Collage and Line Drawing

Snow on the Dead of Night - Collage and Ink

Zip - Collage and Line Drawing (100th post)

Local Pub - Collage Cut from Observation

Sardine Tin - Collage and Line Drawing

"How to Draw" - A Silhouette Collage with Line Drawing

Gone Fishing - Fathers Day Card?

I know its a long way off from Fathers Day (June something or whatever) but somehow came down this pathway anyway.

A bit of collage fun with scrap pieces of envelops and black card.

'The Yellow wallpaper' Coverbook

Here is a book cover design inspired by the insane poetic style within.
All of the elements have been drawing or cut form observational drawings, later enhanced on Photoshop.

'Fresh Paint' Take 2

'The Sequential Image' - My Proposal

Flora and Fauna

I aim to create a sequence of images that will illustrate the flora and fauna of my immediate outdoor environment. I want to approach this project with a magpie tactic. Sketching and doodling plants and animals in their natural habitat.

I will work in a range of medias; Line drawings, watercolour, silhouette and texture collage (which I favour for its graphic quality). I also aim to produce a series of expressive collagraph and lino prints, to demonstrate character and rustic setting with strong composition. By the end of the project I will hopefully have produced a number of pieces featuring different floral and animal habitats with narrative; from bird frolicking in a tree to snails braving the long stretch of patio despite the fear of nearby birds.

Mark Hearld and Julia McKenzie, who are both print makers and collage fanatics, are a key influence to my idea as their method of work expresses a love for the English Countryside and for illustrating the adventure and freedom within Wild life. Like these artists, I want to encourage people, children to adults, to get out of their own habitats and look beyond to that of others in the wild.

'Fresh Paint' Windows 8 - Digital Finger Paintings

 

Fresh Paint is a digital method of painting much like IPad drawings (if just a bit more difficult and limited) and is just as fun. Here are a few of my simplistic sketch's, mainly figurative and facial.