Beginnings of the tree

OK, so just a quick update. I've added some previous work on the prints and photos pages and below is the start of the actual tree form continued from my last post. It's taking shape but there's still many more painstaking hours of measuring, cutting, throwing away, remeasuring, recutting etc...

My first commercially used drawing

I say commercially quite loosely- I don't expect that this will allow me to leave my job, but I'm proud to say my illustration will be featured on flyers and posters for an event at the Market Restaurant, Edge Street in Manchester. It's slightly less impressive that it's partly my event, but still I'm happy with it. It is a restaurant scene with a certain character resembling one of Hopper's, and featuring me and my good friend Cassandra in the background. I really enjoyed doing this drawing- something not as concept conscious and more for the fun of it. The building outside is inspired/copied from the architecture of the old fish market in Manchester, hence the name- Market Restaurant.

Beginning

 OK, so what I'm posting here is the beginning of my latest project- well, the beginning of this particular piece anyway. The concept for it has developed through many other pieces- mainly the stuff I've done since uni or right at the end. Since this is a first blog page since uni, I have lots of little bits crammed away, so forgive me if the posts seem a little haphazard- this blog is half intended for public interest and half for my own learning and development, but I can assure you most of it will me relevant to forming a consistently flowing practice.

 Anyway, onto the first pictures. This object may not seem to make a lot of sense to you right now, and, to be honest I'm not entirely sure how it will turn out. My approach is very much a "wing it" ideology, so I'm working out my process as I go along. To state the obvious, it is a pot made out of cardboard. A plant pot to be exact, in which is going to sit a cardboard tree. Although I can't fully visualise how it's going to look exactly, I have a pretty good idea, and the strong lighting really shows off the intended angular forms. I'll be posting the beginnings of the tree very shortly, but for now, I'll leave you with a plant pot

Rambling

This is my first entry to what is intended to be a continuous documentation of work in progress. I should probably start off by giving you a little info on me. I graduated from the Visual Arts course at Salford Uni (Manchester, England) in 2010 and have since been finding my feet in the somewhat muddy depths of the working world. I'm not going to digress about how I earn my pennies, but I will say if I've not posted for some time, it could be either that I'm too poor to buy materials or I'm working too many late nights. Anyway, that's enough about real world stuff, this blog is intended to be an outlet for my fictitious mind and its visual and/or written ramblings. I'm going to start by uploading pictures I have of my latest project followed by pictures of previous work that relate to my current practice. I use the term somewhat loosely as I haven't developed a strict practice and I'm unsure I ever will- I tend to float a bit, but often I will return to my firmly secured anchor point that is drawing. I'm not going to bore you with wordy statements either- I know what I'm thinking- I'll leave you to think/not think, like/dislike for yourself.