Paper Animals

I haven't managed to post for while - the last few weeks have been a whirlwind of completing work, assessments and setting up the degree show - but now I've got some time on my hands I can post up my latest work, which has taken a slight twist.

I have recently been experimenting with cutting my drawings out of coloured paper and painting over them and it's been working well for me and I've really enjoyed it. The theme of my last project was 'Rainforest' so I spent a week or so making over 20 different Amazon rainforest animals out of paper. This is a selection of them. 

Iguana

Tapir

Giant Anteater

Marvellous Spatuletail

Black Caiman 

Red-eyed Tree Frog

Jaguar

Harpy Eagle

Hoatzin

Toco Toucan 

Stripe-Breasted Starthroat Hummingbird

Scarlet Macaw

Capuchin Monkey

Cats - Sox and Nellie

This was a little painting I did yesterday inspired by my two cats, Sox and Nellie.

... and for my next project

This is a little part of my next project... a little poison dart frog. I was experimenting with cut paper collage and watercolour and I'm liking the result so far. More to come! :)

Peacock

Really enjoying painting various colourful creatures at the moment. This is yesterday's painting of a peacock.

Life of Pi

This is a project I did to start off my Final Major Project at uni - which I have decided to break up into smaller projects.

After recently seeing the film (which is awesome by the way!) I was inspired and wanted to do some of my own artwork for it, so I decided to design a book cover.

One of the major themes in the story is Pi and the tiger Richard Parker's fight for survival strong life force. I wanted to find a subtle way to represent this and came up with the concept of a 'yin-yang' - that neither could have survived without the other. Therefore the final artwork is set into a circular composition in which the tiger (who could be seen as a representation of Pi's survival instinct) is the dominant element.