Week 37 Geometric*

Week 37 Geometric

3 images

I like simplicity and what I have learned this week is...

Art does not have to be technically difficult to make an impact and 'speak' to people - sometimes the idea is enough.

I've had so much fun - no high art aspirations at all, just playing with paper, cutting and glue.
(Well, I did have some fleeting thoughts about using geometric shapes in clever ways, but these thoughts were quickly dismissed).

Here they are - 
The first one is inspired by the Dazzle camouflage of WW1 battleships. I've added colour and applied it to the silhouette of a London Black Cab.
More about Dazzle HERE

Circle fun!

*This was chosen for the picks. It was my warm-up act! 
One of the things I have learned is that when art comes from the heart or a playful place it resonates with people in unexpected ways.

Keeping it simple!

Week 32 Fabric

It's a busy week for me so I needed to stick to line work and not over-do the detail. So ideas of fabric collages went out of the window along with ideas of drawing super macro close-ups of  woven material in pencil or watercolours.

An alternative definition of fabric relates to the walls and roof of a building, and as it turns out there is a London nightclub called fabric. So, here is a queue waiting along the walls of the building.

I started drawing the people at the middle and worked right. When I came to finish the queue I learned that I can draw people better from left to right. Overall, the impression of people is OK even though I would have liked to have time to refine it.