first commission - beginning stages

the photograph, my utensils, and the canvas. all ready to go

my first portrait not completed at school. School encourages the use of projecting a traced outline to quickly get the properties, however i do consider this cheating. this is my first painting where i will be drawing the image from scratch, and have used this gridding technique

definitely finding it challenging - the photograph is slightly pixelated, the canvas won't allow for rubbing out with smudging and the face has taken on quite an old appearance. hopefully a clean layer of paint should sort out these issues, but the drawing needs some tweaking as well. 

close up of the gridding and smudging

Holly Merritt, A2 media test

120cm x 120cm. blue, brown, yellow and pink ink and biro

i drew/inked it on paper, then cut the paper triangles out. i mounted what was left onto board, as well as each individual triangle. i then cut out the mounted triangles and stuck them back onto the whole composition, to create this 3D effect

personal sketches

just a pencil acorn. quick sketch