A FAILED PIECE

Hello everyone! I’ve finally had the chance to get this one scanned and uploaded. My latest painting Banshee’s Wail ─ taking on themes of Irish folklore. This year has been a roller-coaster in terms of development of artwork and style. Taking this piece for example. What started off as an idea I couldn’t wait to get on paper, transformed into a drawing I really liked, and by the end something I wanted to bury. In the end, I had to settle for being somewhat satisfied in depicting what I had imagined in my head. I’ve found the best remedy in these situations is to just move on and create more.

NEW METHODS

If there was one takeaway from this painting, it was the satisfaction of fine-tuning the preliminary stages of my creative process. I’ve been trying out a different way of developing the initial drawings for the transfer stage. With this method I’d be transferring each individual element/figure one at a time from tracing paper onto the final sheet. The idea is to eliminate the need to erase parts of a perfectly good drawing in the vicinity of another detail being added to the artwork. I’m not sure if this is going to be a permanent process, but it seems useful at the moment for pattern and graphic elements ─ or in the case of this painting, for sheer and translucent subjects. Someone on my Instagram referred to it as “analog Photoshop layers”, which hadn’t occurred to me till now; a fun way to look at it nonetheless.