#studio experiments

I was working on paper painted with gesso, although I must have had some red or pink paint on my brush as you can see the pink shade showing through on the image below.

Work in progress

Finished pieces are ok, very different for me in terms of more defined shapes – not sure about these ones.

Autumnal

I wanted to challenge myself to explore a looser style of sketching so spent a bit of time sketching with watercolour to push myself not to control the image so much.  My first attempt wasn’t a great success

Losing Control

But it did help me get a bit more free with my style and actually quite like my second attempt.

The Stern Face

"Animals as leaders" ~ 11.13.2015 / gpricephotography / no print available. Click image for full view / Please do not redistribute without watermark.

An entirely different vibe from me, admittedly. But I am different, so my work will reflect this. Nothing is permanent except change. Evolving is the only option artists have if they are to reflect the world they live in with an honest eye.

I arrived here (Pakistan) on 24 August 2014.

For two weeks I spent my time exploring the village, visiting neighbours and dining with them, sleeping outdoors under the starry sky, reading and sketching furiously on the peaceful mountains, visiting  the main shopping destination; which is a twenty minute car journey away. There, I gathered disposable material; such as cardboard and a few small compressed pieces of recycled cardboard which are used as a backbone for rolls of fabric in fabric stores over here. These cardboard pieces were perfect for particular experiments I wanted to carry out.