Journey

My projects - image 1 - student project

My Fairy Plague Doctor (Cloud watching)

My projects - image 2 - student project

I did a few cloudwatching drawings and found it's a really good activity to stretch my brain out!

I've been working to develop some plague doctor characters and I guess they've been on my mind, so this came out. I call it My Fairy Plague Doctor ;)

Slooooowing down

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I spent a lot of time drawing this one slowly.

The best part was that I was able to push this drawing much further after, into a digital drawing, then a repeating pattern and keep riffing on it. I've added it below with my "finished work" at the bottom of this story...

Shaking it up

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Metamorphosis (#2... not sure where I put #1)

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I spent some time on this piece and ended up creating 2 additional paintings with this exercise as a starting off point. I really enjoyed this one.

Crowd of Creatures

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Colours!

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Flatten it!

My projects - image 8 - student project

This was my flat take on a dead plant in my living room.

Thread

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The idea of 'thread' reminded me of knitting, which is something I've just never been able to get the hang of. This is what knitting feels like in my head.

Structure

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Take 2

(cloud watching thread)

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Texture

I used a photo of a blanket my grandma crocheted for me years ago. It's something that reminds me of my grandma and keeps her memory close.

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Here's my drawing... I was using each stitch in the texture as pieces of this drawing, with some of the fuzzy stray fibres too.

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Finished work that these exercises helped me start...

These are a couple of paintings that I made a result of experimenting with the metamorphosis exercises.

acrylic on canvas 16"x20"

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This one ended up going big... really big! What started as my slow doodle became public-facing art on the main street in my city's downtown! Holy doodle!

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Bobbi Bjornholt

artist / UX designer / motorcycle nut

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