Continuing  with my project into drawing methods I have been looking at cutting paper and by drawing by removing the surface layer of the paper to enable the differing surface texture underneath to  produce the image. Unfortunately this does not photograph well at all so can not add images but would like to know if anyone is aware of any artist who work in this way for my research journal.

Thank you

Continuing  with my project into drawing methods I have been looking at cutting paper and by drawing by removing the surface layer of the paper to enable the differing surface texture underneath to  produce the image. Unfortunately this does not photograph well at all so can not add images but would like to know if anyone is aware of any artist who work in this way for my research journal.

Thank you

It has been sometime since I have visited my blog due to ill health and as I am doing this as part of my personal development as part of a University project I thought I’d better try to get back into the swing of things.

So what have I been doing lately? Our current brief is based around encouraging us to look at drawing and painting in a different way and not in the traditional sense, so we are looking at alternative methods of drawing. As I am now seriously behind I have…

Experimentation started today as part of my brief into trying new media as part of a 2D drawing assignment. I want the materials I use to in some way contribute to the message I am trying to express. Working to highlight the human rights issue surrounding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) I have fought the urge to use obvious media such as blood. Instead I am looking towards plant matter (for a small body of work), to incorporate the obvious plant elements used during the ceremonies which are…