Having been at my 'home home', as we students call it, for such a long time, I was starting to really panic about how little work I was getting done - especially as I had missed the briefing for the FINAL unit of my degree. This is the project where sh*t is supposed to get real and I'm sat at my Mum's house just constantly making people cups of tea and trying to research some other drawing material.
Then, just as I was about to pick up my paint brush, my Dad walks into the dining room like some kind of art-student-hating, creativity-sucking dictator, "What do you think you're doing?"
After spending so much time away at uni, I guess I forgot that due to many paint spillages and ink related accidents over the years, I'm not supposed to paint at my parents house. At all. So, after the same old argument about how "I'm 21 now, not a kid, this is my life, my career, my degree, I'm not gonna spill anything, stop being such an idiot" and after my usual loss in the fight, I decided to do something digital instead. How in the world, without any drawings to being with, was I supposed to come up with any kind of digital designs? *light bulb moment* I headed to Pinterest and then took elements from vintage brooches that I found on there, and created a new piece by repeating sections and taking shapes from the originals.
I'm not going to use these again, but it was certainly a good way for me to play around with adding metallics to my work using digital media and also good practise for manipulating drawings as well as working on composition and layering. It also lifted my spirits a little, made me feel like I had done something productive during a very difficult time.
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