Ongoing studio experiments

Ongoing studio experiments

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It appears that this artist does a painting of stripes on a daily basis.

Visual Research - Zhangye Danxia landforms

Knowing my love of colour and pattern, a friend prompted me to look at Zhangye Danxia landforms. 

"The Danxia landform refers to various landscapes found in southeast, southwest and northwest China that "consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs". Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age. Similar in appearance to karst topography, danxia landforms are made up uplifted continental crust that has been faulted and eroded, exposing large scarps of layered rock, red in color.

Danxia landforms cover several provinces in southeast China.

 Taining County, Fujian Province, has very good examples of "young" danxia landforms wherein deep, narrow valleys have been formed. As the landform gets older, valleys widen and one gets isolated towers and ridges."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danxia_landform

Ana Bidart

Once again, my good friend Gary alerted me to an interesting artist to investigate. 
Ana Bidart is "interested in drawing: its possibilities but most of all its impossibilities."

I have only seen her work on Behance, but will do more research and hope to share more of her beautiful and mesmerising work.

https://www.behance.net/anabidartstudio




Impractical data series




Impractical data series




Impractical data series




On going drawing




Colour separation




Colour separation

Colouring up my cast

Thanks to everyone who has suggested colours and types of line for my cast. I have followed the suggestions in the order that they were suggested.

It is proving quite difficult to do intricate designs, and the pens react differently to the various fabrics that the cast is made from.

I will continue with more of your suggestions tomorrow.