guess where i went today...

OXLADES BABY!

(finally!)

since school finish i've been dying to draw! but i've been too busy and haven't been near a piece of art paper or pencils or ink or anything since the end of IB visual art! 

so today, i went to oxlades in the valley and bought some canvas paper and ink (it's jade, very pretty!) :D

and voilà!

it's not quite finished, but i'll let you know when it is!

i want to give her red lips

i would have brightened the image, but i have no photoshop at the moment D':

ta ta darling!

(tell me what you think?..pretty please?)

print me up baby,

hey lovelies, 

so, because i've had a couple of requests from people about some of my works in exIBit, i'm getting two works printed on postcard sized cards, about 20 each, which is pretty damn exciting :DD

So Long As I Get Somewhere...

40 x 54.2 cm

Giclee Print: digital painting (with Wacom Tablet) on smooth cotton

description (didactic): This is perhaps the digital work I’m most happy with. I was able to combine my drawing skill with my knowledge of Photoshop. The text is drawn from the song Runaway by The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs from the most recent album It’s Blitz. I felt the lyrics were appropriate to the “Alice” theme because they evoke a sense of isolation, escapism and entrapment that is also explored in the story. I wanted the “Alice” character to appear trapped and isolated, using elements of Art Nouveau and her hair to achieve that.

Breathing Black/Breath in Black

29.5 x 28.1 cms

graphite, ink + finepoint pen on Saunders watercolour paper

(description is in the post 'the mad-header')

if you would like a copy/copies let me know, 

though i must levy a fee (haha) to cover the costs of printing, but it shouldn't be too much.

xo

the mad-header,

so, i changed my header :DD

it's a digital version of the original work completed for IB visual arts.

Breathing Black/Breath in Black

29.5 x 28.1 cms

graphite, ink + finepoint pen on Saunders watercolour paper

description (didactic): I was cleaning out my art shelf to see if I could find any good paper that I hadn’t used yet. I found one with ink splatters on one that I had around when I was using batik (ink and wax). My original plan was to have the “Alice” character blowing out smoke (reminiscent of the chapter, Advice From The Caterpillar), but it looked more like she was coughing, which still works quite well. The text is a quote from the chapter The Pool Of Tears, the work is a cross between the chapters The Pool Of Tears and Advice From The Caterpillar.

hope you like it :D