Digital scans of old b&w film negatives, held down by fingers (shadows) 12.05.2025

six A2 sized gouache on paper paintings 2021 The idea for my second VCE studio arts artwork came about when I was playing around with gouache paints. I found that the textures I created reminded me of the surface of a planet. The theme for my folio was mythology, so immediately I thought about the planets in our solar [...]

Digital illustrations 04.09.21 + 09.09.21 Portraiture! Yay!! This is extremely hard!!! I’ve spent years trying to get better at this. The evidence is on my shelf - numerous sketchbooks filled primarily with portraits. You don’t get to see those, though. They are... not allowed to see the light of day. Only recently have I been able to consistently draw [...]

Digital illustration with symmetry tool 18.09.21 Occasionally - as a treat - I use the symmetry tool in Procreate. The tool means if a draw on one side of the iPad, it mirrors it on the other. This... in a way... feels like cheating. But not having to worry about how symmetrical a face looks is just so NICE. Obviously, it’s not [...]

Cheap gouache paint on paper 04.01.21 50 x 52 cm It was the 2020 Christmas holidays, and I the break before starting the laborious challenge that was Year 12. I wanted to paint something. I wanted to paint something big. I felt I needed to push myself, as filling up sketches with small illustrations wasn’t quite giving me [...]