Spare time antics..

I think one thing i love about art is when i find myself just doing it in my spare time, no relation to my uni project or anything, just doing art because i love it. 

And trust me, it varies. As you can see! From attempting my own henna, to random elephant drawings. After doing my uni project at the moment, i find myself panicking every now and then that i have forgotten how to draw realistically! (not just roughly from observation how i have been). 

So yeah, my advice, always draw! Always be inspired.

I have now started drawing the trees, just ones that I see outside my window, on walks, or that I go and take photographs of (however I prefer to do them on the spot, from real life, as thats how I have previously been drawing, i feel it allows you to draw more freely). 

Working on from this i might start to think about transforming them into wire forms… Like i have done with my lightbulb. The trees provide me with so much more variety, so will create lots of different styled wire trees, contrasting quite a lot really with my routine shaped light bulbs. 

Pretty Trees and Romantic Skies

A reoccurring obsession of mine when walking home after uni is taking endless photos of the sky and leafless trees. The sky transforms into these romantic pastel coloured shades of pink and blue, which so nicely rests as a background for the delicate outline of the melancholic trees.  

A song I think that goes nicely with these photos is this. 'Berlin' by 'RY X'. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXN20bpWtY

After so fortunately randomly walking past a window of a small gallery in London - The Ronchini Gallery, i noticed a lovely hanging wire sculpture in the window. So inside i went to investigate and it was a wire portrait by an artist called Alexander Calder, whom i had never heard of before. Yet i was absolutely drawn to it. It was like a drawing in space, so animated and fluid! As it looked similar to my rough linear drawings, i was then inspired to recreate my initial light bulb drawings. 

Interestingly, the shadows casted then replicated a similar image to my original drawings, so i liked the the mix of the two together when you look at these photos. 

Bright Idea

Train Doodles

I have set myself a task to simply try and doodle as much as I can everyday, things I do not even instantly find aesthetically pleasing, just do it. Let your hand and pen take over, dont even think about it, dont look down at the paper, dont rub out (use a pen!) and just scribble away. This is exactly what I did here in these drawings when I was sat on the train.  

At first you may look at your drawings and think 'wow, what a load of crap I have just drawn', and sometimes that is the case, but in some occasions you have drawn something that presents you with a whole new visual idea, it helps you see things in a different way, helps you draw in a different way... 

Another recording process; taking photos. I have taken an interest, or more so realised an occurring theme in my recordings, in electrical things, from lightbulbs to electricity pylons and now telephone poles. 

I say, 'taken an interest in electrical things', but then when I look at my drawings and photos I begin to notice it is more the wires and cords that I find aesthetically intriguing. The linear effect. 

Inspire to be inspired

'Record the place you live, your room, your friends, your view'. I recorded my view, which was simply a man on the phone outside of my window.