One pleasure of working digitally is the endless ability to tweak or completely change your images, without affecting the original … More
Author: alittleart
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
The bronze swimmers – non toxic patina-ing
The 3 bronze swimmer masks have now had all their odd casting artefacts dremelled way, been sandblasted, and finally last … More
Idle hours
I spent yesterday at the zoo, collecting reference materials for future work. And, enjoying a walk in the sunshine. I … More
Emotion – fear
More faces using Adobe Illustrator and the digital tablet. I’m now feeling sufficiently confident managing groups of objects and layers … More
Expressing Emotion – Anger
Next in the ‘universal’ emotions set, anger. It was oddly difficult to find non-fake/cartoony reference images of anger, particularly of … More
Expressing emotion – Contempt
As part of my ‘mask’ background research, I’ve been reading about facial expressions and how we express and recognise emotion. … More
Poster post
Work is play, at least when I’m doing a posters for a comedy show. Play is work too of course. … More
Etchings and etching
I’ve just spent a fine week in a printmaking course – working into aluminium plates variously protected from and exposed … More
Il Dattore, next stage
The ‘doctor’ bird mask follows the shape worn by plague doctors in medieval Europe, and the Commedia dell’Arte stock character … More
A little selfpromotion
I spent time this morning creating a quick and dirty one page advert to go in the Drawfest Annual, an … More
A Little Art 