Head in the Clouds

During the run up to my last exhibition I started to work on an image for the phrase head in the clouds. I had very specific idea of what I wanted and tried numerous times to get in down on paper. First time I perfected the face, but the body had a weird shoulder and the ink ran too much, next the cloud was good but dress was all off. So by the third try at a final draft I abandoned the image for the exhibition. 

In finding the three drawings again I began to work on them in Photoshop, layering the items that worked and deleting the wonky shoulder and hook nose (I had managed in one attempt). I love this way of working and I think the final image is pretty strong. 

Sometimes in seems a shame that it doesn’t exist as an original anymore but it will be a handsome print.

Ruby Slippers and Their Friends

In the exhibition I had a wall dedicated to shoes

because

well

shoes!

Everyone loves shoes and there are a few shoes which tell a tale or two...

I concentrated on the magical Ruby slippers of The Wizard of Oz, the groovy platforms Dr Franken Furter dominates The Rocky Horror Picture Show with and the Glass slippers of Cinderella.

Sort of the ones we all could do a bit of struting about in (hairbrush microphone is optional)

I exhibited these enormous beauties in handmade oak fames and the inks looked lovely, so lovely two of the originals sold in the first week.

Luckily I had managed to organise a selection of A3 prints. I have to say the prints came out way better than I had imagined ,being a newbie to all printer artwork I was a little nervous.