about me

Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
I am at my happiest when I'm creating something/anything....I'm of Welsh heritage, born in Canada, and have lived a quite curious life so far.....
Showing posts with label drawn with ink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawn with ink. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

playing around with surface pattern....


these images are part of a study on tea shops and cafes that I undertook for my BA in Textiles, where hearing threads of conversation made me think of beaded strings, the background layer was acrylic pallet knifed onto paper, the colour mixed to emulate tea, I then set about building various layers with Photoshop, just playing around with some of the exploration work I had undertaken in my sketchbooks





I had sketched, with ink, many the chairs I had found in the tea shops I had visited




wanting to see what blue looked like to balance out the 'tea' colour



gingham had shown its face in several of the tea shops  and so went on to appear  in my images




the original background before adjusting it with Photoshop

Friday, August 19, 2011

is it just me or do cup handles and ears seem very similar?

Have you ever noticed how much like an ear a cup handle is? Perhaps it is no coincidence that we often listen to our loved ones hopes and worries over a cuppa.