switch to water based ink on card

then rollering ink onto card  to explore surfaces

switch to water based ink on card

This is just mark-making initially 

Summer term starts 2011

And I am going to look more at surfaces, changes with the effects of time, distressing with sand blasting, fire or just plain sand paper.  Micro versus macro, the mechanical giving way to chaos.  The use of stencilling this week and how that could mimic metallic edges.
These are drawings in charcoal and graphite and chalk on paper.  Next time acrylic on mdf?

meanwhile back at the farm

2 more images in my Cars in a Wood series with the background image appearing first.  In the above image a Healey 3000 should emerge.

Two images from Ute Rakob scanned from cards she gave us.

Altare degli animali
 An image that measures 75x35 cm/ 145x50 cm/ 75x35 cm

Vom Roten Buch
measures 50x65cm

recent trip to Vienna

Recently back from rail trip through Vienna, Prague and Berlin.  In Vienna met artist Ute Rakob, trained in the Viennese School and is a serious artist.  Her work turns thrown away material into icons of great power and beauty.  Here she is in her studio with a painting of her manikin.  Each painting can take many months to paint. They have a profound, meditative, timeless quality and the transformation and closely observed surfaces of textiles and metal I found very enriching.

another Morris Minor comes off the production line

The dialogue with a pattern and the discovered car. Here are the series of images leading to the final one.