Fish drawings continued

Here are pictures of one of my finished drawings, and the other two in progress. I have really enjoyed working with the inks, and using white conte, black biro and ink pens to attempt to simulate more 3 dimensionality within these works. Although not directly related to my exhibition paintings of fish eyes, the drawings also focus on the fish theme, and I am thinking of trying the inks on canvas as a preliminary background, perhaps within my fish eye series.

Fish drawings

For my drawing subject this semester, we are doing a hybrid project. Mixing contemporary drawing with a non drawing technique/source. I have decided to use scientific diagrams from my biology text books (suprise suprise) and drawing them on ink backgrounds with mixed media. I was also thinking of labelling them with amusing names such as 'piss bag' instead of urinary bladder to contradict the usual seriousness associated with textbook imagery. Here is some of my bookwork/ drawings so far.

Proposal for Exhibition series

For Tafe this semester we need to produce work/s for the end of year exhibition and document our intentions and progress. I am continuing to pursue the fish eye theme and perhaps some fin/scale detail paintings using acrylic underpaintings and oil glazes. I would like to experiment with resin and wax mediums but time may be a constraining factor.

We have approximately 12 weeks til the exhibition and seeing as though we need to produce work to a very high standard I forsee completing perhaps 3 large paintings in that time. I have already begun one painting which is 90 x 90cm and is the largest I have worked so far. (see my marine series post).

I think that a series of 3 paintings, each 90 x 90cm would be visually pleasing and perhaps a reasonable expectation. Due to the size of that paintings and the fact that I have to catch the bus to tafe, I expect that a lot of my actual painting production will occur at my studio at home.

The best book for painting ever!

This is the main source of inspiration for my current marine series of fish eyes and details of fins etc. I bought this book for $20 at the Griffith Conservatorium of music bookshop and was so inspired by the stunning photography.

This site has some of his fish eye photography

http://www.dos-bertie-winkel.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=163&Itemid=114


Here are two photos and the paintings that they inspired

Sketches and life drawing

Here are a collection of some of my older sketches and life drawings from the last few years

Some of my favourite artists

Although these artists don't relate directly to my current work, I love the aspects of transparency and delicacy which they have. The fact they are painted on wood panel is very intriguing and I love the way that some sections of unpainted wood create the highlights. In my fish eye series I have been experimenting with thin acrylic washes follwed by encaustic (wax medium) and oil glazes. I am striving to achieve a similar transparency where the texture and patterns from the original acrylic wash can still be seen through the other layers.

Audrey Kawasaki is definetely one of my favourite artists, and I recently discovered Amy Sol via the Juxtapoz site. Her style is very similar in some ways and she also works on wood panels.

Audrey Kawaski's site:

http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/

Some of Audrey's work:


'Taken'

'Drip'


Amy Sol's site:

http://www.amysol.com/

Some of Amy's work:

'The clovervine slumber'

'The apple and the string'

'Dream of a distant cousin'