So now the work for the On a Small Scale Christmas exhibition at Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh is under way, and it is exciting melding together digital explorations, my day-job as upholsterer seamstress and fitter, and my drawing techniques. Talk about transferrable skills.
My thumb is already so much better that I have been able to set to work on my drawings this week. It is so good to be working on paper again. I have been collecting ideas and elements digitally in Procreate on my iPad for months, and now it is great to be actually drawing out those forms - challenging at times, switching up my drawing techniques for the good! For example, the star shape seen to the lower right of the photo above was fashioned easily with the aid of digital streamlining tools. I now had to work it by hand using a ruler with a precision which I found daunting. I procrastinated making the physical version horribly, but actually enjoyed the work when eventually I plucked up the courage to get on with it. Just beginning to sew stitching into the paper in this photo. I like the awkwardness about it, I can't quite control where the thread is going to wander using strange media like Japanese tissue instead of fabric, but I like surprises!
So now the work for the On a Small Scale Christmas exhibition at Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh is under way, and it is exciting melding together digital explorations, my day-job as upholsterer seamstress and fitter, and my drawing techniques. Talk about transferrable skills. Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my work journal - a weekly update on drawings, work in progress, doodles and day-dreaming.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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