Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Bernice Myers

Bernice Myers is an author and illustrator... unfortunately I wasn't able to find out much more information about her than that!
However there is quite a lot to say about her work which is both fun and beautiful. I'm guessing that she works on textured surfaces such as canvas, or maybe she texturises the surface with a gesso... then she uses mixed mediums such as paint and pastels mainly, with perhaps a little bit of colouring pencil?
Her backgrounds are generally very simple, comprised of only a gradient or sometimes even nothing. This is definitely something that I can try to take on board in my own illustration as I have a tendency to flatten my images by trying to include too much detail into the background.




Digi-Art

Here are the final pieces I came up with after experimenting with photography. I layered them up with textured paintings of mine and played around with opacity levels and artistic filters on photoshop. These are both going in the exhibition on series that I shall be participating in. This will take place in France over the Autumn.



Thursday, 11 August 2011

Experimentation

I have been experimenting with layering photography and drawings/paintings this summer, here are some of the results: