Lavender
I felt like doing a little drawing tonight, and this is the result. I used a photo I took a couple months ago as reference. I’ll update a better photo when I get the chance, I still want to do some more work on it tomorrow, but its bed time for me now.
Pencil and Watercolour
Art Nouveau Woman
December 31, 2009
Art Nouveau Woman
I had a beautiful calendar with some works from Alphonse Mucha, and felt inspired to create something using similar elements and style. Its still incomplete, but I always love this stage of drawing – nearing completion, where everything starts coming together. Hope you like.
Good wishes for the New Year!
Overdue Birthday Gift
December 3, 2009
an overdue birthday gift
Last year, a friend of mine asked me to make a drawing or painting for her birthday. As usual with these things, I started and then never finished. But, FINALLY, a year later I managed to finish it and she got it for her 20th birthday instead. I think shes happy 
She had asked me to include a few things in the artwork – a wrought iron bench, a pink flamingo, a cherry blossom tree, herself and a toucan. I took a bit of artistic license here an there – stylising the wrought iron bench and transforming the toucan into an owl…but I think the final result suits her. Hope you like.
Doodles 2008
September 12, 2009
some doodles
Just for something new – a few little quick doodles that I had lying around. Its nice to have a bit of fun with characters every now and again.
“Beliefs, Circumstance and Identity” 2007
September 7, 2009
These artworks and the previously posted drawings were part of my major work for HSC Visual Art. My work was entitled “Beliefs, Circumstance and Identity” and explored the following concepts:
What makes us who we are? God, our genetics, our upbringing, our environment…is it circumstance? The conditions that affect somebody’s life and are beyond his or her control, a condition that affects what happens or how somebody reacts in a particular situation? Is this what sets us apart, shapes our beliefs, our identities? Are we molded by elements and experiences essentially outside our control? Culture, class, religion, commodity, travel, materialism, social values…
experiences, culture and memories:
Drawing, watercolour and mixed media.
identity:
Drawing and watercolour
‘circumstance’ 2007
September 6, 2009
series:
A series of 5 ink drawings expressing the concept of circumstance and class.
‘identity’ 2007
September 6, 2009
Identity:
two self portraits I drew in 2007 to express identity.
‘beliefs’ 2007
September 6, 2009
series:
A series of 5 ink drawings made of various churches that I visited in a trip to Europe in 2007.
rendering 2008
September 6, 2009
brief:
enlarge and hand render a photograph of an interior space
the photograph was provided to us by our lecturer and had to be scaled up from A4 to A2 using a grid.
tea house project 2008
September 6, 2009
This was the second project in my 1st year.
brief:
design a teahouse to be situated in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. The space should be contemplative.
response:
a series of ‘organic’ pod shaped rooms that express Indigenous respect and relationship for the land through the experimentation with material and form.
each of the pods is made out of a different material – woven rope, paper bark, timber, metal wire and paper.
