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.

Back in the Day - Age 17

Don't worry I wont be showing you a photo of what I looked like age 17 just what I was up to. 
I was one of those suspiciously together art students who knew what they wanted to be, their direction if you like. I loved my art college, it was the best two years of painting, printing and investigating every material I could get my hands on. By the second year I had streamlined the course to my chosen goal, set design, not illustration you say? Well no, that came later. Since age 12 (scary kid) I knew I wanted to be an artist in theatre and I was convinced age 16 that Set Design was for me. So this was my first ever, ambitious/overly complicated, set design. I made every 1:25 scale pipe, book, textiles and detail myself - no model making shop in sight (I was a stubborn little so and so as well)
So that was me aged 17..........