Fresh start for 2010

after seeing my friend's blog i decided to make one of my own.
since its the biggining of 2010 ill start off by saying *happy new year* and all the best :D

well,one of my new years resolution is to go back to my art work since i havent touched a pencil for the last 3 years,so dont know how good i am,im so out of practice.


i havent done anything recently,but im working on a watercolour painting of the suspension bridge in bristol.reason for doing bristol bridge is cos i began to love the city seeing as i have visited recently last year in november and loved it.very beautifull architecture,lot of culture etc..just genereally a really nice place that i like to visit when i have the chance.so ill start off my artwork beginning with bristol and visiting the art galleries over there.so im looking forward to it.

i suck at drawing landscapes and townscapes,i need a lot of improving so im starting in what im least gd at.
ill post the painting once its finished,havent really started it yet,just done a rough sketch so far.
but i have some artwork that i have kept from when i studied at langley, BTEC art and design foundation(something like that). ...i covered 3D design,graphics,drawing,fine art,textiles and fashion. a bit of photography and GCSE ceramics..wich i wasnt good at..but nevermind..

im new to blogger and this first post is not going to make much sense as im struggling to put the pictures in order and it keeps deteling them..:(..haii!!!

this was made in class and yes he is a real naked man that had to pose for us,he kept falling asleep bless him..lol..however..this painting i love cos its FULL of colour and its not like a picture image where its all perfect and everything,its more about creativity,go a bit wild and not afraid to make mistakes.to make this painting i got red,yellow and white paint,i put nut sized amount and got a small piece od thick card and scraped it down the page and kept adding colours as i continued,this gave a nice effect.to paint the man i used a lot of acrylic paint and kept adding layers and layers of paint and dried paint to make it thicker and make it stand out a bit more...you can see a closer picture of his chest if you scroll down nearer to the bottom of the page...the light is cooming from the right hand side as you can see,thats where all the white paint is.





this painting was done at home on my free time..quite while ago,i used inks and used a black fine liner to draw with...these horses were actaully on a scarf,it caught my eye cos u can see the horse from all different views...sorry im not good at taking pictures :S


the painting below is a varse of flowers painting in a van gogh style using acrylics.it was done at home,back in the days when i had the motivation to draw all the time...its all gone now..:(

i particular love and big fan of van gogh's artwork style cos he uses a lot of colour and mixing and different brushstrokes in different direction wich makes the painting very effective. this sketch below was done in class i used charcoal..very rough sketch just to get the shape of the figure and obvious shadows

here he is again,sitting on a stool holding an easel,used pencil,same thing...just to get the main proportions right and shadows.i like this sketch as its simple and real life....althou as you can see im really bad at drawing straight lines when it comes to drawing....but who says art has to be perfect..:P..ART can be anything you want it to be.

this is a close up of his chest,i used all sorts of colours to mix

NOW this was my final piece on my last year at college wich i got a distinction for,wich im proud of but i dont think its that good looking at it now...it was meant to be...japanese art mixed with 60's and 70's fashion....both ideas dont work to me but teacher thought it was a great idea...to make things more confusing i decided to make a salwar kameez.wicch is a traditional clothing that the indian girls wear,the real salwar kameez is 11 metres and its wrapped around severeal times...so it had also a hint of indian fashion in my project..so my final piece is 2metres of plain white silk fabric,used..gold and black outliner,fabric inks and hot wax...this took me FOREVER and took the whole table in the class as i needed the space and couldnt move it after it was all done.so what i had to do is use 2 metres of drawing paper and draw the image with black pen..and lay it down on the table and then lay the silk on top...so the drawing below it was like tracing paper wich helped me to draw on the silk.so started from one end to another..the tricky bit of all was using the hot wax...you get this special tool wich is small like the size of a pencil but at the end...it has this little bowl opening wich helps to scoop up the wax and it has little fine tap on the bottom to help draw fine with it...but sometimes it gets stuck ..so i tried and drawing it a bit roughly and wax spills on top of silk...wich you cant remove...or paint on...so you have to have patients and be carefull. and as for the outliner i put it into squirting tubes so it was very easy to use after all was done,i used fabric inks to add colour...after its all dried out....i had to melt the wax. so i had to iron the silk and have paper on top so it can absorb the wax and then it was finished..HOORAY!!

black outliner with lots of ink colours to make rainbow colours..giving the 70's style.

this both picture is a close up of the hokusai's wave using wax.it was very difficult to draw with it.

the pictures below is the whole of the salwar kameez in bigger picture.

leave comments and tell me what you all think,it will be most apreciated it :D :D