Brotherhood

Posted on July 12, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in PeopleTagged 1 Peter 2:17, Acrylic, Art, bible, Brotherhood, Frank Shepard Fairey, Illustration, Painting, VectorLeave a comment

HEY I’m back! Well I came back on the 29th June, just had nothing to post. Got bored so decided to paint again :D. This time it was for a little youth group I help lead on Sundays. We decided to call ourselves the Brotherhood probably because the group is mainly composed of us negroes so I had to paint something simple to reflect what we stood for. Thanks to google I stumbled upon a bible verse to inspire me, 1 Peter 2:17

‘Honour all mankind. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.’

Nice little verse and this is what I got from it, well and the fact that I’ve always been inspired by Frank Shepard Fairey’s style of vector art illustrations :D.

I’m still a bit rusty but I hope to improve my vector style, I LOVE VECTOR ART!!!

I’ll also find some time to post pictures from my holiday that inspire me creatively.

FINAL EXHIBITION :D

Posted on May 16, 2012January 10, 2013 Posted in Animals, Miscellaneous, PeopleTagged Acrylic, Art, arts, Canvas, Faith, Final Exhibition, ink, Painting, PVALeave a comment

It’s been long-awaited but everything has gone to plan so far and I’m really happy with the way everything looks, I will miss UCA with a PASSION I’ve made friends that I know I will be life long; still it’s onwards and upwards from now on. My final exhibition consists of the various pieces of my faith journey incorporating most of my latest work to reflect my thinking process as it is now. As usual, being my perfectionist self, I had to find an order to put up my work up, which took some trial and error but in the end thanks to the help of those around me my final set up is a follows.

My blogging rate will slow down as I no longer have to work on a deadline however I will be producing work that I feel necessary to my current thought process. Our exhibition is currently at the UCA Canterbury Foundation Studios opened to the public on 21st, 22nd & 24th May 10am-5pm 😀

Joseph Stalin

Posted on May 11, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in PeopleTagged Acrylic, Art, Canvas, Joseph Stalin, Painting, Stalin, ThinnerLeave a comment

I thought I ended my dictator series but in my monochromatic stage I couldn’t help myself once I glanced at the image of Stalin in exile. Now there’s definately an innocence in this portrait; which is funny as he did disguise himself at this stage. Bit worried yet flattered at the comments I’ve recieved over this painting, lets just say if Stalin was alive today he would have a massive female following -_-“.

Ink Painting Cont.

Posted on April 28, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged acrylic paint, Art, ink, Observation, Painting, UCALeave a comment

Here’s another of my latest paintings; 1 week left of my FMP so I’m now preparing for my final exhibition in UCA 😥 not going to lie procrastination aside I WILL MISS UCA 😥

Bubbles O_o”

Posted on April 18, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged Art, Ink on slab, PhotographyLeave a comment

Once again the bubbles are merging back into my work. These are photographs of the ink slab I used during my printing class. One technique is to add washing up liquid in the ink to increase the flow of the ink. After using the slab once these patterns appeared and I had to capture them before they disappeared.

Mistakes

Posted on April 18, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged Art, ink, Mistake, PVALeave a comment

I was about to discard This study but i’m glad i didn’t; it’s so unique to what i’ve done before and I may actually make a silk screen from this one.

More Ink Studies

Posted on April 18, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged Art, ink, Photography, PVALeave a comment

Cont.

Posted on April 18, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged Acrylic, Art, ink, PainitngLeave a comment

Here is one using one of my ink+PVA studies, painted once again with acrylic and thinner.

Oh these are roughly A2

Paintings

Posted on April 18, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged Acrylic, Art, Canvas, ink, ThinnerLeave a comment

I used my first PVA, Acrylic experiment as a base to get me started into this series of paintings. I used a thinner to ease the flow of the acrylic giving me the chance to vary my intensity of colour without using water. I was going to do these in oils but the slow drying would have caused me to smudge everything. For a first try these aren’t too bad but I hope to add more detail as I go on.

Ink and PVA

Posted on April 18, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in MiscellaneousTagged Abstract, Art, ink, PVALeave a comment

These are a series of experiments that I started for my FMP; following my acrylic PVA experiments I decided to limit myself to just Ink and PVA as the ink repels the PVA (probably due to the high water content). I’ve recently started Started playing around with the idea of blowing these up using a projector tracing the detail I see and painting it afterwards. I will post these pieces as I progress.

Isaias Afewerki

Posted on March 28, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in PeopleTagged Art, Evil, Isaias Afewerki, Oil Paint, Painting, PortraitLeave a comment

It’s interesting how we got to know of Kony due to a viral video but do we know truly of the evil that goes on now as we live today. Not to be controversial but Isaias Afewerki has to be one of the most unknown evil dictators that still live today (to the general public anyway). The genius of this man is the fact that he doesn’t allow the press to report anything in Eritrea; and living in a media driven society it only makes sense that it’s not in the public’s interest to know of him. Religious faiths that have not been legalised in Eritrea deem the people who follow them alien, to the point that they are not classified as citizens. Even Christians are put in jail facing torture for their faith, and are forced to denounce their religion; though many refuse and are still tortured. It saddens me when I think of the hardships people face due to what they believe in; I often feel that I take for granted the freedom I have to express my faith without the fear of prosecution when others are tested for what they truly believe. As part of my series in this project I’ve decided to continue painting these evil figures hoping to strike debate and having at least one more person aware of what’s really out there.

Sugar Lift etching

Posted on March 28, 2012January 14, 2013 Posted in PeopleTagged Art, etching, Humphrey Ocean, ink, sugar lift6 Comments

Inspired by our visit from Humphrey Ocean our guest lecturer Gwen decided to show us one of his etching techniques which we tried for ourselves later on. I chose to use my recent painting of my grandma as a source of inspiration for my composition. I really like the effect I got from the process, with sugar lift etching you never really get a perfect image but the outcome is great.