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
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
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
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.
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 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’
This picture is of some of the pieces I worked on today. I also attempted cleaning up my studio. My brother brought me some extra storage unit space. I am enjoying having a space of my own in the house. Though I am still travelling around with my pens n art work.
Hope you had a lovely day today. Nite nite
I am really working hard to get my technique and inspirations fine tuned. I get easily distracted as to how to approach a Piece of work. I have an idea I want to do then I put a mark on the page that inspires me for something else. I am constantly asking myself why I draw or paint what I Do.
i love my abstract work and know I will never let it go, I love my figurative work also. So I am continuously trying to marry the two.
In my figurative work I want to put so much detail, and hadn’t found a way of doing it that I Enjoyed until a couple of weeks ago. Since then I have been churning, yes! Churning out the work. But I know I still have some way to go in that department.
I am really excited about this new approach I am taking to my work. I love the process and the product. I wanted to create pieces that felt like objects, to be pretty and special. I am using some of my own recycled occasions cards I received from people. I asked friends to give me old Christmas cards or non personal cards to me. What you see below are some of the results of almost finished pieces of art. I will list them on my etsy site soon as prints.
Have an amazing day tomorrow. B
New art in my gallery and shop for sale. Contact me if you have any questions. My week by week art has been put aside for now. Too much on at once.
Ok so I bent my own rule tonight and painted the background of another of my artwork. I will be back on form tomorrow.
Here are some pics of other pieces of originals in my shop.
