Thursday 19 October 2017

Movement Downwards 3

This is the third installment of my studies about movement downwards.  I have drawn at least 20 different pieces, each trying to capture moving downwards in different ways.  I still have some more ideas that I may try out before moving on to painting these ideas.  This may take some time due to further work commitments however I hope to get painting as soon as possible and certainly before December.


Drawing 1, carbon pencil, drawing 2, pen and coloured pencil (A4) 2017

Thursday 5 October 2017

Movement downwards 2

Some more work on the theme that I have been looking at.

Ink painting, A4 (2017)
We have been returning to my mum's flat regularly and clearing out stuff before the new buyer moves in.  Every so often we come across another sketch book (there have been at least 12 so far).  Some of them contain ideas for work (she was an art teacher), others study personal themes that I will post up over the next few months.  Some of her ideas are very personal.  What I find striking is the last sketch I found less than two weeks ago contained a small number of works quite similar to some of the stuff I have been working on.  Here are some examples.

Ann Fones (c.2017)

Ann Fones (c.2017)

This last piece is kind of similar too but also shows how my mum could be her own harshest critic.


Ann Fones (c.2017)

Tuesday 3 October 2017

Movement downwards

I've spent a couple of weeks on a series of drawings looking at the subject of movement.  These are abstract pieces obviously.  I've talked about the inspiration for this project to a very small number of people and it will be interesting to hear what they think about my work on this.  For everyone else, make what you want of them as abstract pieces. 

I will be investigating different colour schemes in these abstract pieces although the 'purest' ones are without colour or are simply gray.  I think they will be interesting colour studies though!  The next stage of this project is to start work on paintings in my case although there will be more drawings to come.

Movement downwards 2, pen drawing and coloured pencil A4 (2017)

Movement downwards 5, pen drawing  A4 (2017)

Movement downwards 4, pen drawing and coloured pencil A4 (2017)

Movement downwards 3, pen drawing and coloured pencil A4 (2017)

Movement downwards, pen drawing A4 (2017)

Movement downwards 6, pen drawing and coloured pencil A4 (2017)

Movement downwards 1, pen drawing A4 (2017)