Paintings//Sheffield Cityscape

During my assessment in January, I had very positive feedback about this painting. It isn't in a style I would usually use, and it is done in acrylic paints, using biro, so I didn't feel too great about it; it felt very much like the kind of work I would have produced at A-Level. However my assessment tutors told me that I should continue experimenting with this style and keep producing this kind of work, because it felt more like the kind of atmosphere of Sheffield than my other paintings did. 

I have continued to produce this kind of work, using acrylic paints and pen, of photos I have taken from Park Hill of Sheffield's cityscape. I am still not feeling that comfortable with painting in this style, it is a much longer process than other paintings I have produced, but the colours and style achieved portray a better sense of Sheffield as a city.

I have also tried using just blacks, whites and greys, and continuing to use pen.

I have also started to do pencil drawings in a similar style to the paintings, still using pen to add more detail and defined lines.

Rurban//Architecture Work

I started drawing whilst walking around Leicester, but felt that more detail could be achieved in my drawings if I worked from my photographs. All the work I have done so far has been in an 80 page A3 sketchbook, and the work consists of drawings done in 4B pencil, graphite pencil, fine liner with pencil, biro with hairspray, charcoal and silk-screen prints.









Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Graphite pencil

Fine liner with pencil

Silk screen print

Silk screen print

Silk screen print

The beginning

The start of the Art Foundation was based solely on developing drawing skills, which meant we spent a lot of time focusing on the same subject matter. In my case, this was Hollyhock seed heads.

We drew large scale observations of the seed heads in charcoal and chalk on brown paper to start off with. After that, we were set a challenge that the majority of us found very hard; to complete a 40 page sketchbook in ten days, with observations of the seed heads, including different materials and developing the observations all the way through the book. 

Completing this sketchbook was difficult, I had never been given a task like that, but it definitely did help me not only with my drawing skills, but also to work under pressure and meet deadlines, an important part of the art and design industry.