Make-Up Painting on Pencil Surface

i started painting with my make up when i realised the pencil was getting all over my fingers and face when i touched my face. the initial pencil drawing was quite a frantic and intense one, putting lots of weight on the pencil and pushing hard. Then the make-up application was quite gentle and considered. the change in pace inspired by the materials used made me think about painting. I used make up/other cosmetic products to do my self-portrait (further on in this blog)

Shadow Gaps on Pencil Surface

drawings with pencils

reflective pencil surfaces.

These shapes are the cut out from in between the shadows on the stairs. This relates to other work of mine, the later, sycamore fetish work. I'm taking the constantly disappearing and reappearing phenomenon of the shadow made on the stairs by the railings, and taking it out of that place. I'm attempting to celebrate and re-imagine the shapes in an alternately organised structure. I'm taking the original shapes, and creating something new from them.

I haven't yet done an installation with these shapes. It is my intention to find a site to exhibit them. Maybe a diffferent set of stairs in a different building, but maybe the same stairs but one floor up or down. In various different arrangements, some shaped in a more organic way than others.

drawing around shadows in my building

I walked past these shadows every day, its the reflection from the light on the stairs, as it shines through the wrought iron railings. I thought the way the shadow climbs each step was interesting, and wanted to draw around it to see what it looked like flattened out.