Sketchbook Practice
This module I have been using my sketchbook to record drawings and paintings in mixed styles such as illustration and abstract painting. I have even experimented with figure drawing but decided that this was not the path and style that I wanted to follow due to a lack of interest in it compared to the inspiration I gain from nature and how I use that in my paintings as a form of escapism.
after using a wide range of media and tools to draw with, such as marker pens, pencils, crayons, felt pens and even paint itself I found myself more drawn to working with the water soluble felt pens and the coloured marker pens because of the variety of colours I was able to use when creating the bird transcriptions especially.
The combination of styles I found the most successful was by using watercolour and watered down acrylic to create splashy, dripped backgrounds that i would then sew into with coloured threads to create the outline and shading of insects and flowers. I really liked this ideas and it is a technique that I want to focus on in the future. This is because I am extremely interested in the texture that is created by multiple layered pieces of art and would love for the audiences of my work to be able to use more than their visionary senses to explore art.
My art is very personal to me because of the abstract expressionist painting style though action painting, as well as the slight obsession with drawing birds is based on an emotional attachment to them that came from an interest in birds from a young age that was encouraged by family members. The focus on the birds in my work links to the escapism themes that are shown throughout my work as they remind me of happy memories which act as a distraction from the unpleasantness of reality.
