Tag: art in ink

Mourning Moon by cazartco
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from small things..

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I’m hoping for inspiration..

This week has been a big push. Finally my online art store is open. I’ve pretty much been correcting bits and bobs all week. I’ve also been trying to navigate some kind of plan of what’s to come. I’ve needed some art time too, but even that’s been difficult to squeeze in.

I’m looking back over social media to see which of my artworks have been liked or featured the most. This will determine which art to add on my store to sell. I’ve learnt through social media that sometimes something that you think isn’t good enough to share, is in fact someone’s favourite. It’s a process that I think might take some time, but it’s always good to go back over what you’ve done before. It rekindles an interest in a process or media that you haven’t used in a while.

During this I came across this illustration from 2014. It’s still one of my personal favourites.

As if by Magic by cazartco
As if by Magic

I’m now starting to doodle… back with an ink pen in my hand, whilst I’m thinking, from small things, Big things Grow.

Here is some new photography from this week. This was taken in my back garden with my Nikon, just as the full moon was rising.

Mourning Moon by cazartco
Mourning Moon

I hope you have a great weekend! Thanks for all your likes on my last post, it’s really awesome

Blessings

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Be Leaf

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© caz norton 2013
© caz norton 2013

Here is the second  piece of art from me this year.  Be Leaf.

This was a bit of a challenge.  Normally I will work to some kind of structure, outline or draft of what I am about to do.  Then add or subtract lines or shapes I like to keep as the work evolves. So it was a weird feeling starting a picture with none of those boundaries so to speak and to work completely freehand.  The background is pastel, followed by black ink, then pencil.  For any artist working over pastel in ink, even with a good spray of fixative it drains the life out of your ink pens, fast.  Pastel is so much fun though.  I ended up with Conte pastel in my hair (green is So not a good look), over my face in fetching blotches and of course smeared down my  jeans.  But I think you’ll agree the effect was worth it.  With all the ink in my pictures I use either a 0.2, 0.3 or 0.5mm pen nib.  Often I will add either ink in Indian or painted form, as in this work, to make the black much bolder.   Although it is an all absorbing task, it has been liberating and this is a first.

You are also viewing this without a watermark, which is as a conclusion of finally sorting out the copyrighting for my work.  Rather complex I might add, thank goodness for working for a Trade Mark Attorney previously, otherwise I would have not understood some of the lingo or process involved.  My website is the only place you’ll be able to view new and old work in it’s original format for full impact.  Social media accounts for Caz – Art remain stamped so to speak.

I have started a new drawing already, been writing some poetry and sorted out the massive washing pile, which waits for no man, before it starts making it’s way down the stairs begging for the washing machine.  But have also had my nose stuck in e-commerce stuff too.  I am trying to make it easier for people to buy prints of my work so have been researching an online shop.  I think I am nearly there in putting this into motion, so watch this space.

Thank you to everyone who’s been reading and viewing my Art.  I have also discovered some awesome bloggers that I am now following too.  You got to love WordPress!.

Take care out there, catch you soon!

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Tribal

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Tribal
Tribal

Hey everyone.   And this is my first drawing of 2013 and the start of this years Art!!.  This is a homage to an ‘old skool’ style of working for me, one which started about 17 years ago.  It seemed fitting to retrace some old steps in my art as little has survived from those times. I basically walked away from a life in 1997 that had been very difficult with little more than 2 boxes and a couple of bin bags of possessions, so left older artwork, probably to be burnt to cinders.  The important thing is that I could start again, with 2 beautiful daughters, an amazing best friend and a clapped out Citroen 2CV called Clueless.  I began living.

This is the piece of work that I went through a love, hate relationship with, probably because at first it reminded me of that other existence.   The person I once was and who I am now.  It contains, if you look closely, some hidden little messages.

Hope your all keeping snug, it’s damn freezing here in Cambridge.  So I’m layered up to the nines against a howling wind!  Take care peeps.