Flowers and Wine

Fineliners & Pro-markers - sketchbook piece

Chair

Fineliners & Pro-markers (21 x 15cm)

Teapot

Fineliners & Pro-Markers (15 x 21cm)

Bathroom Beauty 2

Fineliners & Pro-markers (15 x 21cm)

Bathroom Beauty

 Acrylic & Gouache (15 x 21cm) 

Blooms and Bottle

Further exploration on the theme of household objects and decorative features.

With a dash of colour

Added a bit of warm colour using my trusty ProMarkers
Original here 

Object Creatures

Two more surreal specimens, the beginnings of a flock perhaps...

Ridged Comb Tail

Long Billed Bottle Neck

Cross-hatching Craze

 The latest cross-hatched drawing completed - first mentioned here 

Object Creature

This unusual specimen was sketched as a bit of fun and partly out of curiosity, the design is constructed from a series of household objects. The result is surreal but quite effective, I may even try a few more...

Watch-winged Wader

A combination of ideas

A combination of catalogue drawings and the decorative motifs I've been sketching recently, this is most likely the starting point to a series of works that feature a fusion of decorative elements and household items.

More Cataloguing

Another page of catalogue drawings ( see here for more) 

sneak peak- everyday jumble

Here's a small preview of my latest drawing, its an abstract jumble of fragmented everyday objects - I'm revisiting/revitilising some past ideas around the theme of everyday, particularly the abstraction of household objects.

On another note: I think my cross-hatching phase is hitting its peak about now... 

keep an eye out for the finished drawing - I'll be posting it up soon.

Fizzy - Reworked

A Mixed media canvas, featuring a salvaged piece from a previous painting and a finger knitted/ couched border

Cataloguing

These pencil/ pen drawings are based on images found in furniture/ home appliance catalogues, they're part of my continuing fascination with household objects and a follow on from some previous projects which focused solely upon objects from within my own living environment.  By using catalogues and similar sources I am opening up my observation criteria to typical examples of household objects, producing images without autobiographical associations and enabling more focus on isolated objects (such as a chair) instead of scenes or fragments of an object (such as a view of part of a chair under a table).
(If you happen to wonder why the images look yellowed its because the drawings are on cream paper)

Time Drawings, revisited

I've finally finished scanning all the drawings in the series (over 100) onto my computer, all thats left to do is upload them to my website...

During the hours I've spent scanning I've had chance to re-look at my drawings and something occurred to me: It seems like every hairdryer I've drawn (and theres a few) has something in common with sci-fi style ray guns and laser shooters (sci-fi weapons in general really), its a thought that had me tickled - just goes to show the kind of associations our brains makes.
here's some examples of the hairdryers:

Time Drawings

I'm currently in the process of uploading a large series of drawings I produced in november to my website. There are over 100 drawings created using various mediums, all inspired by the phrase "of our time". Each drawing is of a technological/ electric household object, objects typical to our time - that are commonly used in our day to day activities but not always appreciated aesthetically.

All of the drawings are created on recycled paper, such as discarded photocopies. Its also worth mentioning that some of the drawings experiment with digital processes, for example, a printed photo which has been worked over or digitally rendered drawings that were then printed to be shown as part of the series. (there's a double digital happening with such pieces, they went from digital to physical and  now will be seen online back in digital form)

Since there are so many drawings I thought I'd offer a little preview here first:

(to see the rest follow this link - http://www.wix.com/lsaallen13/artist#!current/vstc5=time-drawings)