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A quick portrait study from today

Sue gave me some artists to have a look at that use this technique who included MEREDITH WOOLNOUGH. Her work looks so intricate and perfect! It was definitely a hard technique or maybe it was because I’m not used to sewing. 

Using inspiration from Tomasz Mro I created this ballpoint pen drawing. This has been very successful as I wanted to create a two colour overlapping portrait drawing. I chose these images to draw as I wanted to use one eye of each photo and combine them. I chose to use green and pink ink to draw as these are contrasting colours and I knew this would be most effective and to get the best outcome.

Using red acrylic paint and my fingers i want to create a smudged lipstick effect. Using the colour red gives the impression of anger or intimacy. As ive drawn a black biro drawing with red lips i wanted to draw the attention to the lips. By adding the smudge i managed to create an eye catching feature to this piece.

I decided to use a needle and thread to create this piece. I decided to use yellow thread as yellow is a colour of happiness and joy and fits perfectly with the smile on my mums face. I left the thread uncut using inspiration from Victoria Villsana. Leaving the threads uncut is like an unfinished story/memory. I really like this piece and how the thread hangs loose. If i hung this outside the threads would blows in any draft making this a very effective piece.

This piece has been very successful.

I really like using the folding technique to distort the face. This has been a successful technique that ive used throughout my project. Using folding has helped me to create small and quick work which has been very good for experimentation.