Charity shop and habidasiory shopping

Following Louise's advice i went out and purchased some items of clothing, that i thought had interesting textures and patterns - aswell as most of them having the right colour scheme that i have set myself.

My plan is to have a play around with these different fabrics, via doing collages and including them within some of my future drawings.

I also thought it would be usefull to acquire some background patterns to work on top of, and because my budget is pretty tight at the moment i went into local shops such as laura ashley and asked for a variety of wallpaper samples.

Linder Sterling - Artist Research

Linder Sterling was one of the artist's that Dereck Suggested for me to look at. I love the way these images combine old photography with simple collage aspects, and really think that this is a look i would like to explore more in the next couple of days, as vintage glamour is a big aspect that i want to involve.

Libary books

From the libary today i have borrowed the following books;

• Hannah Hoch's -Cut with the kitchin Knife - Maud Lavin
• Fashion Illustration Now
• New Fashion Illustration

Hannah Hoch

I located and borrowed this book from the libary after Dereck recommended it to me, This is the type of collage that i will be experiementing with as it includes all the types of resourses (bar line drawings that i will add as extra) like stained paper, secondary images from the likes of magazines and photographs.

Fashion Illustration Now

"Tanabes drawings are often compared to traditional japanese woodcuts. His ink drawings are mechanically transformed so that they sometimes seem to blur or move across the page. he explains; 'my drawings are so flat and simple. That i try to give them a little more movement to put things off-register'."

New Fashion Illustration

Looking through this book, two illustrators in particular caught my eye, these are; Erin Petson and Jen Renninger.

Erin Petson

Erin Petson is said to take photos of her friends in these positions of women in her work, capturing lots of movement, interesting shapes and negative space through the process. I love how she then uses mixed media and collage to create depth.

Jen Renninger



I am mainly interested by the work of Jen Renninger because of her use of texture and pattern. This image to me is a great example of this. And i hope to gather patterns from the likes of wallpaper samples to my own hand made patterns that directly link to my theme of 'Obsessions' and 'Guilty Pleasures'.

Tutorial with Louise

The same day i had my tutorial with Dereck i had sighned myself in for a tutorial with Louise, she too had some different and interesting idea's for me to explore more into. these being;

• To draw from life more, when it comes to people and shop displays, jus for a different prespective.
• Impliment the use of fabric within my work - have a look whats in oxfam and what i dont wear at home anymore, to cut up and use in a collage.
• Paint over / Plaster a old dress, to use as material to draw on?
• Trying drawing objects with other means, such as buttons for example

My next step from here is to purchase some items from a habiashery shop, such as buttons, lace and ribbon...  as i believe this is whats needed to make my piece come to life.

Tutorial with Dereck

When i got into the studio today i got Dereck to look over my work, and suggested i look at such work as:

• Linder Sterling collages (70's/80's)
• Buzzcocks Single: orgasm addict (linder)
• Richard Hamilton
• Hannah Hoch - Cut out with a kitchin knife (book)

Some other comments that i hope to explore more were such things as;

• experiment with ink and paint more - layering effect?
• Try concentrating on the outline of a figure, apposed to always drawing the model in question
• Explore with faces in a more mixed media manor - for example do one eye with a layered effect of ink, paint and collage the other (the same applying for the lips and nose).

boutique impliment

Developing my idea's

These drawings are my instant idea's for, your possesions owning you. 

A mixture of guilty pleasures (cigerettes) and beginning to touch on the idea of obsession, with all the shoes (a pile of my own shoes to draw).