I spent last week trying a new medium (bone), working with mostly new tools (dremel with dental bits, jewellery files … 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.
Tomb Raider
One pleasure of working digitally is the endless ability to tweak or completely change your images, without affecting the original … More
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
