A Summer Offering

The summer always starts off with such promise. It's in the air of the lengthening days as much as within the beginnings of my good intentions. However, as with our typical English summers, the number of pages filled in my sketchbook is somewhat disappointing. Somehow, all the little pieces of my life that I can easily set aside while at Uni, takes over when I'm home. How does this happen? Anyway, excuses aside, here is my small and humble offering to appease the Gods of  my guilty conscious..........

The very loose theme throughout was "Family Tree" as my mum and sister we researching ours at the time.

Macbeth Poster

I am part of an amateur theatre company called The Hatch Theatre Project who, this summer, are putting on a production of "Macbeth". I made this poster as a kind of teaser. All the text (apart from the blog address at the bottom) are hand cut out of paper! I don't pretend to know anything about graphics or to be any good at it, but I think that the time I put into cutting the writing out (especially the joined up) has to count for something?!!!!
Anyway, if anyone fancies supporting The Hatch Theatre Project and help us at least break even! then please check out   our blog address (possible web address to follow). There isn't much information there yet but there will be soooooon!!

http://thehatchtheatreproject.wordpress.com/

Exhibition

     Theses pictures are from my recent end of year show. AARRHhh, that's the second year gone and the third year just around the corner! Scary stuff :)

Nights at the Circus

 This pen and watercolour depicts the Princess of Abyssinia who is in charge of the Tigers.

A carriage conveying Fevvers rushes through a deep Russian winter. Pen and watercolour.

Nights at the Circus

This is the same image done in two very different ways. The first was created using mainly ink and watercolour while the second is a woodcut. It is a depiction of Walser, a reporter who joins the troupe and from whose point of view the story is largly told. These images were heavily inspired by the Russian art at the turn of the century.  

Nights at the Circus

This is a pencil drawing of Colonel Kearney, leader of the troupe,  with his pet pig Cybil.

Nights at the Circus

In this picture Mignon sits forlornly in a bath tub just glimpsed through the half open door. The image is an etching using a method called aquatint.

In the circus ring, as the audience watches, the searing strains of music stirring the air, Mignon waltzes slowly with a tiger.

 

Fevvers takes to the air inside the Russian theatre, her wings unfurling as she ascends to the Gods.