Here is my most recent drawing. For this I used a mixture of black drawing ink, fineliner and pencil, to create both bold and delicate areas of tone.
I worked from an image of the main bedroom at Eltham Palace, a circular room with bright yellow walls.
As I worked into the image, I decided to try to create the appearance of an old black-and-white photo, or a shot from an old black-and-white film.
One of my tutors had suggested that my painting ‘Crooked Chairs’ reminded him of a Hitchcock film, a comparison which I liked, so intentionally tried to create this sense of eeriness in the gloomy depiction of the room at Eltham Palace. I found this particually fun to do since the gloomy atmosphere was such a contrast from the actual, sunny colour scheme of the room.
From this I also got the idea of perhaps trying to transform an interior with a dreary appearance into one with a cheerful look, in future paintings.
For the present, however, I am working on creating further drawings, perhaps to develop into a painting, of my Eltham Palace bedroom drawing, and gradually increasing the image in size for a more powerful atmosphere.
