Posted on by — Leave a comment

What my current art is about – Beatrice Ajayi 18/06/13

image

image

image

image

Hi everyone, its been a week or two. I have been keeping myself busy as usual, then I had some access issues but all sorted now, hence my current posting. So one of the things I have been up to lately is thinking about my work and its relevance, I started looking at what I was putting out there. From the recent work posted for sale on my etsy store you will see that I am looking at the area of conservation.

I have always been really into wildlife. I was part of the YOC as a child, young ornithologist club, and still spot the birds till now. So I was also thinking of when I was a lot younger and what I thought of the wildlife and natural habitats around the world.

So this current collection which will probably go on for a while because I have a large list of research animals and natural objects I want to depict through a child’s eye. They are the future and I think they should have a say. It is a lot of fun creating these pieces. Definitely takes me back to my childhood. So check out my etsy shop for more of these cute nature kids. Nite nite

Posted on by — Leave a comment

You will never believe what I heard!

You will never believe what I heard..

This is one of my figurative abstract images created on made with paper app 53. I made a sale of one of this image today, I am grateful to The Lord for each and every sale over the years at the different points of my life. Thank you to the buyer, I hope the print I send will fulfil your expectations. You can find this print at my etsy shop, just use the shop tab to get you there. it is entitled ‘you will never believe what I heard’. There are also other goodies on my zazzle and Redbubble sites. Nite nite everyone.

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Do You Like My New Dress by Beatrice Ajayi 04/06/13

Do you like my new dress

This is one of the pieces I created on paper 53 app on my iPad today. It’s me researching a new approach. This is going to be a continuous thing it seems, at some point I will figure what style, colouring, size,tools,pen or paint etc suits me best. I love to paint with actual paint but I am still trying to understand how to get it to look the way I have it in my head. So until then. More experiments. Nite nite. B

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Puffin and I go for a swim, digital art by Beatrice Ajayi

Puffin and I go for a swim

This a quick post, I have a cough that the whole family currently have and I really should be asleep. I am in bed typing this, so I am mostly there. This piece I did a couple of hours ago. It’s called-‘Puffin and I Go For a Swim’it is available as an A5 print from my etsy shop. If you need an A4 size that is also doable. Just contact me at my contact tab above or convo me on etsy. Nite nite. B

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Smokie My Pet Rabbit 1/06/13 Beatrice Ajayi

Skokie My Pet Rabbit

This picture is a digital painting of a pet I had a long time ago. I had to give him up when I was moving into a flat with some of my siblings. They didn’t want him. But he went to a good home, our neighbours friends child took him in. He really taught me that rabbits have a lot more intelligence than I had ever known. This drawing was done on app 53, the made with paper app.

Nite nite. B

Posted on by — Leave a comment

The Crowned Owl

The Crowned Owl

This piece is part of my continuous experimentation with colour. Green with yellow accents infused within.

I’d say I am always looking for unusual friendships for my characters. They tend to be lonely individuals who don’t seem to have close friends they can talk to. Therefore they have these quaint or dangerous animals sometimes who they feel free to share their fears and ideas with.

This particular friend has a crown so is of royal standing. I don’t see him just listening but he will have a lot t o say too.

The crowned owl is a prince amongst birds,
Watch him fly and believe all that you have heard,
proud but loyal and a straight talker,
He hates a quarrel,
He Loves completely and rules without timidity…
Verse by yours truly…Beatrice Ajayi

Posted on by — Leave a comment

The Story of ‘The Tear Jar’ by Beatrice Ajayi

The Tear Jar II

The tear jar piece symbolises the sorrows of life and being real. It speaks of Intense emotions, sadness, loss, promise, hope; I have created a handful of artwork with crying individuals. Sometimes the reasons are obvious, for example if they are in a situation of peril. Occasionally like ‘The Tear Jar’ piece it isn’t so obvious.

If I take it to a personal level I don’t always cry in public. Most of the time in my adult life. I take my tears elsewhere, and it would be a lovely idea that the most precious tear filled moments could be remembered with a tear jar. If I expand on it a little more I don’t know if they already exist in some cultures. I do remember a depiction in a film about the roman emperor Nero saving the tear he cried for a close friend in a little vile.

Anyways this art piece is specifically about storing tears, obviously precious on some level. Do they ever dry out? Do they have a lovely aroma or are off putting to the nasal passage.

Either way my little character looks very determined to keep on saving them. That is not a small jar she is holding.

I still have to tweak some areas before its finished finally. I will try and tell the back story for another piece tomorrow.

Posted on by — Leave a comment

The Tear Jar – by Beatrice Ajayi

On my list of to dos

These are some work in progress. More inking then painting begins. These have already got one layer of gesso and an ink/acrylic mix. So that the paint won’t tear the thin paper I have adhered to the cardboard.

The Tear Jar

The coloured pieces are examples of some I have already started painting, with layers of coloured gesso laced through out. The colour piece on the left is called ‘The Tear Jar’