Abigail Kerry

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Ways of Seeing / Talking Pattern

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  • physical collage – construction site
  • combination of digital and physical collage – construction site
  • experiment combining wet media and doodles – perfume bottle
  • digital repeat development – perfume bottle
  • pen and paint – string and bubble wrap still life
  • paper collage – Westminster station
  • combination of painting and collage
  • fineliner and watercolour – Westminster Abbey
  • fineline and pen – windows
  • oil pastel and pen – reflection within a paper plate
  • digital repeat development – paper plate
  • paint, oil pastel and finaliser – Westminster station
After an encouraging drawing workshop with Martha Zmpounou, I tried to move away from my comfort zone of line drawings. To do this I mainly used both physical and digital collage, alongside further experimentation with ‘wet’ media: watercolour & acrylic paint. Throughout this investigation I struggled with patience and inspiration – I found myself discarding the initial stages of a drawing if I didn’t like it, instead of pushing the work, and myself, further. As a result of this I’ve ended up with a few pieces that feel rushed and unfinished. This may be because I put too much pressure on myself to be overly “creative”, rather than experimenting and letting the drawings evolve. However I enjoyed using ‘doodling’ as a mark making tool, and I’m excited by the images I’ve produced that combine oil pastel, fine liner doodles, and watercolour. They feel looser and less boxy than my other work. I’d like to use this technique in future to create motifs for digital sublimation prints. I think my drawings have become more experimental but there’s still further to go; I need to continue producing work in order to develop this drawing style.
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Talking Colour

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  • crane and rising structure – multimedia collage
  • crockery found in my kitchen – continuous line and collage
  • underground glow – smeared paint and contrasting bold lines
  • underground glow – oil pastel
  • notting hill – watercolour and finaliser
  • scrunchie – 30 second studies
  • fridge shelf – collage and biro
  • fridge shelf – watercolour
  • fridge shelf oil pastel and fineliner
  • contours of a perfume bottle – oil pastel
  • perfume bottle – multimedia
I tried to use this task not only to investigate colour but also to loosen up my drawing skills. Unfortunately I had to self isolate so I drew from photographs I had taken beforehand around London. This forced me to have a more instinctive approach – the images I worked from were based on initial attraction and not encouraged by a brief. Because of this I feel I managed to study a variety of colour palettes and subjects; the observation of a crane came from interest in it’s structure, but I would never usually have focused on its colour. I enjoyed extracting from a more subtle palette, and in future will continue to study colour in unexpected scenes. In future I’ll try and push myself to do a few more intricate, time consuming studies, as some of mine are quite simplistic line drawings. However I like the rustic effect of the white line drawing on cardboard, and may develop this further, continuing to use cardboard as a base.

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