I was persuaded to display a couple of pieces of artwork in an exhibition. I did not have any which fitted the theme of the exhibition so I produced two expecially for showing.
The idea for this first one came from surfing the net and looking for something strange, extreme or risque! I found a photo of this guy on a website called FreakinNews. I though it was strange, risque and funny. I drew it using charcoal and a single continuous line. It was really quick to do, but I have to say my practice piece using a pencil on a bit of paper was better.
This next piece came to me one night when I was thinking about the crafting days ahead of me. I thought about how sometimes knitting can be quite frustrating and you can get tied up in knots. When I connected the knitting to the exhibition I came up with a scared face trapped inside a ball of wool and the start of some knitting with the wool begining to scramble. It took me a couple of hours to do this one and it was in-deed a bit frustrating itself.
I drew the eyes on some card and cut it out into an oval shape. My idea was to wrap wool around to make it look like a ball. I stumbled into some problems. I painted the area where the wool would cover, to stop the white showing through. Then, how to prevent the wool just slipping off the sides? I tried nicking the edges so the wool could get a grip. This still proved difficult to get the top and bottom of my ball to stay put. I unwound the piece and then stitched through the card to cover the top and bottom so I could wind the rest. It worked OK, but there were still a few niggles to contend with. When I was relativley happy I then set about knitting a few rows and making a scrambled mess of wool and atached it, so it looked like it was coming from the ball. Sewing the work to a canvas finished it off.
The exhibition takes place next week end and I will see how it goes.
I think you will agree ..... It's definatley STRANGE!
Update Feb 2012: Unfortunately I got really fed-up with this piece looking down at me from my studio wall. It wasn't very pleasant. I mentioned to one or two people that I didn't really like it and they told me to kee hold of it as it might grow. Anyway..... I dismantled it and threw away the bits. Yes, Yes..... I now wish I had kep it, as looking at it on this blog, it's not that bad after all. Ah well, maybe this is a lesson learned.
How does that song go?..... #Regrets.... I've had a few.
