Hello! Long time no see! Following on from my last post (which was shockingly one whole year ago!) it has been one hell of a year. I am now well into my second year of university and I am very excited to get this blog up and running properly. To start us off here is […]
Hello, this is my first blog post as a University student. I am currently studying Illustration at York St. John University. Whereas the first few weeks have been rather hectic, I have now found time to post. It was quite concerning for me that I have a blog but haven’t been using it. It has […]
This is an image of the A2 drawing I created. I used fine liner for the phoenixes and pencil tones for the girl and black background. This is a very detailed piece, combining the soft pencil lines and the harsh ink lines. Using Alessandra Maria’s work as inspiration I combined the images of the phoenixes […]
Kirsty Mitchell (Website | Facebook) was born in 1976 and raised in Kent, England. Kirsty began her higher education at the age of 16 studying fine art, photography and history of art. At 19 she specialised in “Costume for Performance” at The London College of Fashion, gaining a Higher National Diploma with Distinction. Kirsty went on […]
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a material, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. The blocking stencil, in my case, would be a paper cut out. Using my own image of a friend that I have previously depicted within my art, […]
After looking into phoenixes, I have done further experimentation, this time using technology. Previously within my art coursework, in the last few years, I have had multiple usage of digital art. Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process. To do this, I […]
The phoenix is a mythological bird that is cyclically reborn by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. When a phoenix comes to the end of its life cycle, it is said that the bird spontaneously combusts, allowing regrowth within its ashes, a birth of sorts. Fire and flames are typically associated with the phoenix, so when […]
Rob Ryan ( Website | Twitter | Facebook ) was born in 1962 in Akrotiri, Cyprus. He later studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art in London which is where he specialised in Printmaking. He views himself first and always as a fine artist, however, his intricate papercut work adapts itself readily to many other […]
Yuken Teruya is an artist based in New York City. He was born in 1973, Okinawa, which is the Southern most prefecture of Japan. He works in a variety of media including toilet paper rolls, paper shopping bags and butterfly chrysalises. His ideas often reflect life and history of Okinawa. Most often, his works depict life […]
Alessandra Maria (Website | Instagram | Tumblr), born in 1989, is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications Design and Illustration. Just before working as a full time artist, Maria worked at Chez Oskar. After selling her first piece, she states, “I was so excited that in the middle of […]
A LITTLE BIT OF ILLUSTRATION 