I love learning new approaches to creating art, from photography to life drawing, printmaking to watercolour. In this course i settled into tackling ink on paper with the ‘dip pen’ method. I know I will make mistakes and whatever I do I will repeat multiple times until I feel I’ve got something worth going up on a wall somewhere. I also know that you only learn by doing, by trying to do as taught, taking short cuts or taking far longer to do a thing – that’s the process.
In the background I have my own library of over 15,000 photographs and will use software like Adobe Express to play around with a collage of chosen images and backgrounds. I also use Da Vinci to ‘project’ an image into a surface – this does away with tracing paper though is no substitute to obercing from life and photo and other references.