Ongoing studio experiments

Inverted lined paper

Stacking Drawing

Interesting drawings by David Ernst

http://davidfoughtgoliath.tumblr.com

ERSATZ
Ballpoint + Ink
50 x 70 cm

Ink on colored paper

21 x 25 cm

Weaving with screenprints

I am not happy with the screen prints as individual prints in themselves, and feel I need to work further with them, building up layers. 

Using wax crayon and ink pens, I added extra marks and tone to the screenprints. I then cut the paper into strips of equal width and lengths, and then weaved them together to form a sheet. I am pleased that this mixes things up in a relatively uncontrolled manner, therefore creating unexpected results.

Tissue paper cones

As I previously mentioned, I had an impulse to make some tissue paper cones and began playing with them alongside other things I had in my studio.

De-cluttering

One of the problems of making rather large sculptures is storing the work after it has been exhibited. My studio is becoming rather cluttered, and its proving more difficult to find space to work, so I have made a decision to use the materials that I have got before buying anything new.

I have a range of different papers, of different sizes, and so am going to use these to make an installation of drawings.

Gridded, ruled paper

Sources of inspiration while in Manchester

Folding paper

I enjoy working with the simplest of materials, and paper is no exception. I have been experimenting with transforming a two-dimensional sheet of paper into three-dimensions.

Henry Matisse talks about cutting

‘a pair of scissors is a wonderful instrument. working with scissors in this paper is an occupation i can lose myself in….my pleasure in cutting things out grows ever greater. why didn’t I think of it earlier? more and more i feel that one can express with the simplest cut-outs what one might want to express as a draughtsman or painter. by entering into the object one comes into one’s own. i had to make this budgerigar with coloured paper. well, i have become a budgie! and in the wok i found myself. the chinese sage said that one must grow with the tree. i know nothing truer….. but i know that only much later will people realise how much what i do today was in accord with the future.’

henry matisse

http://www.thebowery.org/galleries.html

Paper and stop-motion animation

Paper and stop-motion animation are two of my favourite things.

This combination in no way fails to disappoint.