About Me

Allow me to introduce myself. As a woman who see's everyday scenarios in various 'lights' one day out of curiosity I asked myself- "What if everything was Yellow?" including my immediate surroundings extending to just about everything visual and so i decided to see for myself. Join me on a journey of Tone, Colour and image manipulation to experience it with me. Let's Go!

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Where it started

As a post graduate BA(Hons) Art student from the University of Westminster my passion for creating hand drawn designs as paintings has never ceased.
I now manipulate the canvas by using the colour i love the most- Yellow. For me, i imagine if everything was a shade of this colour i'd feel happiness at every turn. What about you? My paintings supply the viewer with what i hope is a glimpse of happiness which lasts forever and they're now available as prints!

Materials I use.

Acrylic paint. Is used the majority of my final creations because it's a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps. Most acrylic paints are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted with water, or modified with acrylic gels, mediums, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor, a gouache, or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media.

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Oil paint. Allows surface layers because it's a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the dried oil paint film. The addition of oil or alkyd medium can also be used to modify the viscosity and drying time of oil paint.

Ink. Perfect for a controlled outline because it's a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.

Ink can be a complex medium, composed of solvents, pigments, dyes, resins, lubricants, solubilizers, surfactants, particulate matter, fluorescents, and other materials. The components of inks serve many purposes; the ink's carrier, colorants, and other additives affect the flow and thickness of the ink and its dry appearance.

Reused fabric. To reuse is the action or practice of using an item to fulfill a different function (creative reuse or repurposing). Reuse – by taking, but not reprocessing, previously used items – helps save time, money, energy and resources which is why i tend to create the majority of my designs on old pieces of clothing such as my children's out- grown t-shirts and because they hold sentimental value. This is a great way of making a subject much more personal.

Canvas. I paint over or directly onto a canvas because it's an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes. It is popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame.

Modern canvas is usually made of cotton or linen, or sometimes polyvinyl chloride (PVC), although historically it was made from hemp. It differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as denim, in being plain weave rather than twill weave. Canvas comes in two basic types: plain and duck. The threads in duck canvas are more tightly woven.

My Methods.

Pick a subject- Plants! and focus on the image whether it's moving or still then decide on the part which is most appealing to the eye and transfer to your chosen material in order to capture the shape which you wish to depict to the world. I gravitate towards drawing pictures of plants which are usually situated all around me and brighten up any space whether they're living or still.

Next, add any material you wish, in my case this would be old clothes that are in good condition but are no longer needed, cut to shape or apply to the whole surface of your chosen frame (canvas) to transform the background. This will be ready to incorporate into a painting once dry using suitable mediums which can enhance the image rather than absorb away.

I zoom in and simplify, the more minimal the better, this allows more dependency on colour and larger visuals for the viewer.

For the prints, these can be manipulated from the original finished painting to create multiple variants of the same image and allow for a greater experience. Don't forget to add a splash of Yellow!