Mark making

These are some of the mark makings I did in my sketchbook as part of the drawing project.

Completed Silkscreen

Silkscreen

For my silkscreen, I wanted to move away from self portraits and broaden my project further. I began looking at anatomical diagrams of mouths, since my sister is a speech therapist, I had a wide range of sources which I think really helped my project. Since I attended speech and language therapy as a child, I wanted to also use a bright primary colour as my background. I decided on yellow. I then decided to use an open mouth anatomical diagram of an open mouth on top of the yellow background, and repeat it as a wallpaper. I thought that this would be effective as a stutter is bascially a repetition of a sound. I chose to do this wallpaper in the colour purple, as it clashes nicely with the vibrant yellow. I then decided to draw a person sticking out their tongue in a childish matter, with a swirly dotted line running across the tongue. I then drew a large black scissors.  This whole image went with the phrase, " Cut along the dotted line". It was suggest to cutting off your own tongue. Sometimes, insecurites can lead to wishing you had never spoken etc, and my speech impediment is a perfect example.

Reworking drawings

As part of my drawing project I was looking at the south african born artist William Kentridge. The drawing that I was looking at was his drawing from his film "Stereoscope". He uses charcoal and really works the drawing by rubbing out and redrawing on top again. I brought this method into my self portraits and I actually really enjoyed it and it brought a lot more depth into my drawing.

Blue

This is my blue drawing for the drawing project. It is based on my boyfriend and his artificial eye, having lost his real eye a good few years ago. It is one of my favourite things about him and the colour itself is a really vibrant blue so I found it fitting perfectly with this brief.

Drawing Project

We were given a really interesting project by our drawing tutor Roisin. We had to pick an alive artist and a dead artist and adapt to their style of drawing through a series of mark making and then produce final pieces. For my dead artist I chose Oskar Kokoscha and for my alive artist I chose William Kentridge. We also had to do one drawing on the word "blue"

Photographs in Black and White