Well, I didn’t get as much done over Christmas as I’d planned, but I did manage a few drawings. I’m intending to show some drawings in my degree show alongside my paintings, as I think they have an intricate and more immediate quality that is sometimes lost when they are transferred to paintings.
It was strange at first to think of them as pieces in their own right, as I’m more used to treating drawings as preparatory material for paintings. Some of them are drawn directly, others are built up in layers of tracing paper.
I’m quite pleased with how these are going, and it’s refreshing to be making work that’s quick and flexible. However, I am starting to consider how some of them could lead into paintings. I think it will be quite interesting to present these alongside each other in the degree show to see how they interact.
