Charles Darwin Thread Sketch pt. 1

Part one of the Charles Darwin embroidery I worked on last week, after seeing the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge. It's to use in juxtaposition to the thread sketches of homeless people I'm working on for the six week sketch brief we've been given for uni.

This is the back of the sketch, which coincidentally looked very ape-like for a long time, creating a nice symmetry with the crux of his theory of natural selection and some of the museum items used to demonstrate this.

iPod Tough

Doodling on my iPod touch turns out to actually be far more difficult than I expected. Gone are the days of loving my finger-painting masterpieces.

Let it never be said that I am only willing to reveal my relative masterpieces. I am totally willing to reveal near-ultimate failures. Hooray!

Sketches, doodles, randoms

I apologise, but scanning is impossible, and my camera hates document photos (and I'm not so great at them to start with). Randomly playing with the concept of submerged/floating hair.

Dogs in scarves. The meekest form of animal cruelty. Hurrah!

Hurrah!

Five minute scrapwood bird

So named because it took five minutes on a scrap of hardboard. Just ink and white acrylic on hardboard.

Bears and bears and bears oh my!

My ursine obsession seems unlikely to dwindle at any point in the future. I must say, though, that the terror created by your mother being in hospital with something potentially really quite nasty going on keeps you awake and leaves you with a hell of a lot of free time to paint and stuff. Also the going a bit mental from it bit leads to media experimentation. The next one is ink on hardboard. Unfortunately I don't have a saw right now, and scalpels, no matter the vigour with which they are used, do not cut it very effectively at all.

Basically, expect more bears. I may get a bear tattoo

It's been too long.

I have been very busy (mainly procrastinating) so haven't put anything up on here in ages. Lazy, lazy me. I'm taking advantage of my last little while where I don't HAVE to work.

I did this a while back. It was mainly to play with a wash technique I saw somewhere, I like it.

The scan is crappy, because it's in a teeny little book all made of envelopes that I bound REALLY BADLY. Shockingly badly. I have to tie the buggering thing together to stop it from laying half open all the time. I'll get it right eventually. Possibly.