Sketches

This is a collection of  small sketches I did. I only used dry materials for these.

I used biro to sketch the eyes from a photograph. Most of the sketches here are from a photograph that I have been studying a lot lately.

Paper cutting technique

In today's lesson there was a workshop in paper cutting technique.

For the first piece I decided to sketch out my name in Nepalese so that I could cut out it out with a scalpel. It was a simple first attempt to get me accustomed to using a scalpel again.

For the next piece, I used a photo of a woman in traditional Gunyo Cholo. I only removed the clothing so the picture can be put on any surface and its pattern will appear as the clothes of the woman.


On the cutting mat, the dress will look like a dull green covering but this allows the model's face to stand out.
I chose to remove the dress for this piece because traditional Gunyo Cholo comes in a variety of patterns and to capture the interest of these patterns, the image can be placed on any object and the pattern will reflect on the picture as the model's dress.

Using patterns from other objects can be used when blending the influence of Minjae Lee with it. The Minjae Lee's works of portraits always contains complex yet vibrant patterns that are time consuming to create by hand. Instead of creating the pattern yourself, placing the image on a surface with hollow areas where the surface pattern will be visible can be useful when working with Minjae Lee's style.

This piece, that looks like streams of black clouds/smoke made from just cutting paper, is by Andrew Singleton.

For this work, I cut out the lotus print using a scalpel again. This is was difficult to cut out since it had lots of curves, which is hard to carve out since the scalpel had an angular preference.

For the next piece I decided to use Yan Pei Ming's portrait of Mao Zedong.

 I wanted to recreate Yan Pei Ming's brush strokes so I decided to cut out strips of paper in varying sizes to represent the varying strokes size of the artist.

I felt like there weren't enough gaps here so I made a few more afterwards.

I placed it against a light source to see it will appear differently. It wasn't much different since it was white light, it just looked like it refilled the image.

I removed more strips of paper here so that more lights pass through the paper.

I removed the background of the original work but kept a white frame around the figure. This makes the work look like a portrait taken with a 1980s style background. (Sci-Fi theme background was popular due to the Start Wars franchise)

The background was a galaxy background from a tablet.

Pattern study

Art Exhibition

       

The artist here has managed to portray the fragility of possession by using materials that can be easily broken. Their work shows the fragility of the dress as well as the emotions that are represented by the possession itself. To further enhance the piece of work, the artist should use more mediums to create delicate patterns on the dress.

I like how the artist has piled up her work here. Her use of symbolism is also powerful; poppies are commonly represented with World War and she piles up her pieces to hint how the bodies of fallen soldiers and victims were just as piled up, not given a decent farewell send off after their struggle in midst of the front ones. She left the background white, which makes the poppy feel pure and untainted but at the same time the poppy's rich colour of red creates a spiral of blood spilled by the fallen soldiers.

In this piece, I believe that the artist was more keen on creating a texture. The use of acrylic paint with various sizes of strokes beings to create an image of a coarse texture, of the shells. The shell drawing is very translucent since the focus was more on the vibrant colours rather than the observation study of shells.If the artist had used white medium to sketch the shells, the coarse texture would still be the main focus but the shell will be easier to distinguish and the white colour would suit well with the peachy colour than black.

Nel Ten Wolde

Nel Ten Wolde is an artist based in Australia whose works involves the use of photographs and sketches. The phptograpgs are ripped and torn before put in alternative positions with the sketches filling in the gaps.

I tried to use her style in some of my works.

The first piece was a basic fill in the gaps of the photograph. Since it was my first attempt, I decided to to do this. I used pencils to sketch out the missing parts of the photograph.

 This is the second piece I did that was influenced by Nel Ten Wolde. Wuth this one, I tried to be distant from the realistic style and attempt more of surreal style by addressing only some parts of the areas with realism and the other parts to be altered to refrain looking like the exact picture.

Final piece process

Gonkar Gyatso

Shangri La, 2014

Mixed media collage on Aluminium backed honeycomb panel

76 x 76 cm (29 9/10 x 29 9/10 in.)

  My first piece was done on A4 sized canvas. The piece was influenced by Gyatso Gonkar, the materials I used were pencils (H, HB and 2B), marker pens, technical drawing pens (0.3) and Acrylic paint. The artist's works often use variety of materials and most of his works are considered mixed media, so I decided to apply the same style for this piece.

I drew the lotus from a bird's eye view using HB and 3B on paper. This was a rough sketch of the lotus, it is going to be outlined and coloured later on.
On the actual A4 canvas for the piece, I painted it blue with acrylic paint. I mixed the blue paint with water to dilute the colour and make it more translucent.

The image on the left is the plan I made for this piece on Photoshop. The Buddha statue would be at the centre of the canvas and the gray-scale is image is the lotus in bird's eye view, I changed the lotus because both image had strong colour and I wanted the statue to stand out the most.

After I sketched the lotus, I outlined the lotus using a red marker. On areas where there is shadow, I used the colourless blender marker to make the red marker colour spread to the area, the blender diluted the colour so it would not look too strong.

After outlining the lotus, I used acrylic paint again. I blended red, white and yellow together (red with little bit of yellow and white) in to create a light red/dark peach colour. I started off with translucent light red colour formed by mixing the paint with water for the base layer. After I finished the base, I applied the same shade of colour but with less dilution so the colour in areas where there is shadow are more opaque.

Start of the Buddha's silhouette part. I drew out the body of the statue and boxes where I will write down the scripture.

My original plan was to write the message up to the face of the Buddha as well but I changed this and painted the head in a darker tone to make the statue feel familiar yet foreign, create a distance for the audience and the artwork as if the well-known figure is being forgotten. For the corners of the canvas, I made four acetate lotus using the sellotape method, I used sellotape instead because with the sellotape I can scrub the print more and make the lotus look more faint and worn out to create an aging effect.