unespied

unespied, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

Five of my clown collages, NOW showing, live, in Ollaberry!

Please feel free to go see, if you're in the area:-
Ollaberry Interior Design Studio,
146 Busby Road
Clarkston
Glasgow
G76 8BH

Exciting times!

Wear the Mask

Someone pointed me in the direction of the RedBubble site, and it seems pretty attractive with all that affordable printing of my stuff without me having to organize it. I'll need to obtain some pennies soon though to do the old quality control check and perhaps some photography...

Wear the Mask was a drawing from an All the Young Nudes night. The model wore a welding mask; props are de rigueur some nights. It's never dull to draw at the Flying Duck!

ibis

ibis, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

I love the ibis shaped egyptian ibis casket in the Burrell Collection. It has such balance and poise.
I've drawn it a few times now, but this is the first one with colour.

In fact, I don't tend towards colour much at all, and this is a bit of a deviation for me. A lot of the time I can 'see' the colours in a drawing without having to manually add them. If that makes any sense. However, this one really needed a gold body to work, and once I'd painted that in, the bronze head, tail, and legs just screamed out for some variants of Marine Blue. I drew other stuff at the Burrell Collection that day, but I like this one best, it just pops.

One continuous 0.35 rotring line. FW inks to fill.

football on her shoulder

football on her shoulder, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

Spent a lovely day setting up interestingly placed drawing shots. The etsy success emails advise getting the best photographs you can of your stuff, so I've really tried. Time will tell if this helps sales...

more life drawing

more life drawing, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

I usually draw on A5, but on tuesday I decided to branch out and draw on nothing smaller than A3. Most sheets were A2. It felt smashing, big sweeping curves, and room for detail on fingers and toes.

If I carry on like this though, it will play merry hell with my storage solutions. I need to cut out the dead wood...

Working on balsa.

I've been working with balsa, it's bigger than paper somehow; can be inked up, sanded, made smooth, drawn on, inked again, collaged on. It stands on its own. These two balsa blocks hint at mini canvases for me. It seems to change the modality of the drawings.

My work sometimes occupies a frustrating no man's land between applied and pure. All the work I make that doesn't have anything to do with another text feels to me like it sits in some space between them, not really one thing or the other in the world. I don't think I should worry about this. I should probably just get on with it.

Coffee and Water T-Shirt

So, a bit of drawing with a coffee, combined with some marketing type thought, and the coffee and water t-shirt was born.

This is my friend Clare modelling it for the shoot. And it's my first live item on my new etsy shop! I'm excited!