New Artwork and Exhibition

 

Have a couple of pieces in this months open exhibition at the Art Yard gallery.

Cradley Train Station and George’s Dock Ventilation are both ink and mixed media on paper.

The first piece is also entered into the Cradley Heath Challenge where visitors to the gallery can vote for their favourite pieces reflecting the Cradley area.

International Postcard Show 2018

 

My postcards created for the International Postcard Show at the Surface Gallery in Nottingham. I used blue, white and gold ink and various paper ephemera on the postcard base, the building drawings are acrylic ink on kraft brown paper.

I’ve tried to show how the gold ink catches the light in the last two images.

The opening night for the show is 12th January and is on until 10th February.

New Artworks- Mixed media on paper

 

Couple of artworks for the Open All Media exhibition at the Art Yard in Cradley Heath.

Artworks are: The Beacon Hotel, Glasshouse Locks and George’s Dock Ventilation.

Each artwork is layers of paper, ink and image transfer along with the ink drawing of each location on 300gsm paper.

Opening night for the show is Monday 8th and it’s on until the 3rd February.

New Artworks

 

1: Royal Hospital, acrylic ink, ink pen, image transfer on paper, 40 x 30 cm

2: Grainger’s Lane, acrylic ink, ink pen, image transfer on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Each artwork has layers of image transferred vintage diagrams, maps and text relating to each building/area.

Both buildings have been empty for quite a few years. The Royal Hospital is currently being taken down, there are plans to use the land for new housing. The building on Grainger’s Lane was once a pub but now sits condemned on the street corner.

These pieces are in The Art Yard’s current exhibition, mentioned in my previous post.

New Art Pieces

 

1. Dudley Hippodrome

2. Over the Lock

3. Shop Front

4. Wolverhampton Factories

Artworks submitted to Nottingham Castle open this month. Each piece is acrylic ink, ink pen and image transfer on paper.

31 Days of Collage #14- #31

My collages for August were posted everyday on my Instagram and Tumblr- this is just a catch up post for this blog. If you want to see the individual posts for each collage please see either my Instagram or Tumblr posts.

31 Days of Collage #7

 

 

|Collage 7 of 31|

Until the End – mixed media collage using vintage magazine scans, vintage adverts, silver foil, text, acrylic ink and pencil crayons on postcard.

Second image shows the foil stars catching the light.

31 Days of Collage #4

|Collage 4 of 31|

Gone Too Far – collage using vintage magazine scans, stamps and acrylic ink on card.

Textures- Works in Progress

 

Spent a couple of hours in Photoshop extracting and putting together some diagram, texture and collage pieces ready to transfer to paper. Many of these diagrams are taken from the British Library’s public domain albums on Flickr.

These will make up the base textures to a coupe of artworks that will be submitted to exhibitions over the next couple of weeks.

I’m planning to print, cut and paste some parts and image transfer some parts using both gel medium and acetate printing techniques. Once on the paper the textures will be drawn, painted and inked over.

 

 

New Artwork- Test Card

 

Test Card, ink pen, watercolour, colour fineliner, acrylic ink, white gel pen, 9x19cm

The small testcard was challenging to get looking right, I ended up using my mini colourful Stablio fineliners to colour in the sections.