Lizzie Paints and Draws

Thursday, 10 April 2014

WHERE HAVE I BEEN!?

Why, making art, of course.

"Disappointment"
Fineliner
3" x 5"
2014

This has been a crazy year at school- that is to say, busy, terrifying, engaging, eye-opening and life-changing. I haven't had a rest in a long time, and not much desire to do so. I am so happy with the amount of work I produced this year!

"Deer"
Fineliners, acrylic inks
8" x 5"
2013

I don't even know how many nights and weekends I spent in the studios, frustrated, convinced that nothing I made was any good.

Sketchbook doodle, 2013

"Rise to the Sun"
Linocut
6" x 9"
2014

Sketchbook doodle, 2013

"Come Back Home"
Linocut
5" x 5"
2014

And then there were some works that just had me smiling so hard, my face hurt....

Pinhole photographs, 2014

"Occidental"
Drypoint
6" x 8"
2012

"Printmaking Studio"
Pinhole photograph coloured on Photoshop
2.5" x 5.5"
2014

Mixed media drawings after lump of clay, 2013

"Black History"
Reduction Linocut
9" x 12"
2013

"Billie"
Underwiped etching
6" x "9
2013

"Stretch"
Charcoal and conté
18" x 24"
2013

"After Van Eyck"
Fineliner
5" x 8"
2013

"Fully Seen"
Linocut and silkscreen
9" x 14"
2014

And there were more experimental, leisurely things I worked on...

Ahh, printmaking... Slimy, yet satisfying.

And some older pieces...

Some photos just for fun...

All the while trying not to become this pretentious guy!

So now, ON TO CONCORDIA!!!

Friday, 26 July 2013

Man In a Golden Room

"Man in a Golden Room"
Oil on canvas
16x20 inches
July 2013

I did a quick line drawing a while ago of a plain wobbly man that seemed to big for the page, like he was trapped in it. Sometimes I feel like confining art to a perfect rectangle goes against what art means to me at all. This man bent in an umcomfortably-looking way and half hiding was meant to convey the feeling of being trapped in something so square that everyone seems to like (which is why is in a golden room, not a bruised purple room).

What does it make you think of or feel?