Sunday Sketchbook w/e 03.11.24

Welcome to my Sunday Sketchbook; ramblings, notes, scribbles and more.. consider it a journal dump of the previous weeks work. Hopefully this gives you an opportunity to see my works in progress and perhaps more importantly, my process and the ruminations keeping me up at night!

This was the final drawing for the Cecil Collins biennial drawing competition which I sent off to Markas at CSM - I just hope Royal Mail can get it there safely!

The painting so far on an 18”x 24” canvas board - I’m still not quite sure where it’s going but I don’t want to overthink this. 

This week I finally published episode 3 after a slight hiccup last week! - discussing final ideas for Grotto, my research supervision meeting and more..

The final print ready for submission to GROTTO.

The final Joker painting which was given away in a fundraiser competition on Halloween.

Taking the idea of uncertainty from last week’s seminar, I decided to begin a painting with no intention or certainty of where I was going with it - I loved the texture on the canvas as it progressed.

A beautiful mistake..

This negative came off the printer badly - I’m not sure what happened but the ink was pitted and very wet and smudged on the bottom corner. I put it against a piece of watercolour paper so I could see it properly and photograph it and actually love how it looks despite the errors.

The final negative for my Grotto cyanotype and second attempt on the printer which came out beautifully - waiting for the results as I write this.

Notes from this week’s seminar analysing a piece from Eduardo Padozzi.

Using Gillian Rose’s table to analyse a piece of artwork in this week’s session.