Flutter By Butterfly
Approx. 15cm x 15cm. Rotring Rapidograph pens with black ink on white cartridge paper.
Dragonfly Away
Approx. 14cm x 21cm. Rotring Rapidograph pens with black ink on white cartridge paper.
pen and ink
Dragonfly and Bee – Pen and ink drawings.
Fly Away
Approx. 8.25″ x 5.25″ (13cm x 21cm). Drawn using Rotring Rapidograph pens with black ink on white cartridge paper.
Bee Natural
Approx 5″ x8″ (12.5cm x 20.5cm). Drawn using Rotring Rapidograph pens with black ink on white cartridge paper.
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Shell
Approx. 12cm x 9.5cm. Sakura Micron pens, Zig Art & Graphic Twin pens with water wash, Cosmic Shimmer gold watercolour paint.
Approx. 2 hours of work/pleasure. It’s been a while since I’ve lost myself in a little bit of art … being at work does get in the way of creative time, but today I’ve taken the time to create!
Losing myself in the joy of creativity, finding something that inspires me, is important. I’ve had a horrible time with a couple of pupils in work. Stressful, frustrating, frightening too.
One week of the half term left and a week away from the madhouse. There’s also a possibility of a different job … still teaching, but very different…more if it happens!
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Abstract Rock 2
13cm x 13cm. Rotring pen, Inktense pencils with water wash, gold metallic watercolour paint.
A small section of the previous Abstract Rock 1 reworked.
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Crazy Contours
Approx 12cm x 12cm. Black Rotring pen, Inktense pencils with water wash and various iridescent/metallic watercolour paints on Bristol Board.
The shapes and were inspired by one of the previous little textile pieces, the filling patterns by Romanesque architecture, prehistoric pottery, natural forms.
Fun to do something this fiddly and fussy and completely potty!
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Growing Love
4″ x 3″. Rotring pens, watercolours, metallic gold paint and pens on Bristol Board.
Just playing really with the Bristol Board; it’s very white and very smooth and will take a bit of a colour wash. The design is very much influenced by early Celtic art and prehistoric rock art, though the hearts have crept in unconsciously. In fact, most of my art is created while in a meditative kind of state, the lines, shapes, textures and colours flow from my unconscious, from my inner being. Perhaps the hearts represent the self-love starting to bloom within me, or maybe the artwork symbolises the start of love being sent out and shared. I’m sticking with the title ‘Growing Love’ for now.
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Planting seeds of love – now finished
Releasing Chained Anger
Approx. 11″ x9″
Acrylic inks, technical drawing pens and a few dots of metallic gold ink…but not too many.
As I’ve been working on this today, I realised that it represents how years and years of anger and frustration have been trapped within me, thanks to my childhood upbringing and later life. I’m learning about emotions at my more mature age, having suppressed them for so long in order to, basically, survive.
Even though the structure seems very ordered and controlled, that is how it always has been for me. May the gods forbid that I should show a coarse or ugly display of temper or emotion!
There are cracks there though … and gradually (or not so if the emotional outbursts of the last couple of days are anything to go by) they will be released and healing can properly begin.
It’ll be worth it as I gradually become the person I’m supposed to be, rather than the one that was forced into the wrong sized, shaped and textured hole as a child, young adult, and beyond …
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Cellular Flow
Approx. 15cm x 15cm
Technical drawing pen, Zig Art and Graphic pens with water wash, and Liquitex Gold Acrylic paint. Oh, and a few bits of white Sakura Gelly Roll.
Just trying something different, kind of. the patterns were inspired by photographs of microscopic images of cells. The gold outer with the patterns extended to give a square around the circle seemed the right thing to do.
Art is the Adventure 