Components and Mask Drawing

Very Old Doodle

I recently came across this old doodle pad from about twenty years ago. I'm not sure what this doodle's about but I thiought that I'd pop it up on the blog anyway.

Orifice Box Dribbling

Here's just a quick drawing of an idea that I had for a spin-off from my orifice box on wheels series of sculptures.

2011 RCA Secret Postcards Revealed

Now that this year's RCA Secret has come to an end I can reveal my entries. This year I entered three drawings under my given name, Wayne Chisnall, and three painted and drawn-on prints under my nickname, Chig.

This final postcard has a lift up-able tracing paper cover that reveals the original Swirly Skull print below.

And to find out the names of the artists behind any of this year's artwork you can still view this year's cards online.

RCA Secret Postcards

Well, it's getting to that time of year again. The Royal College of Art, here in London, have already mailed out their blank postcards to all the artists who they are inviting to take part in this year’s RCA Secret show. I’ve got mine but haven’t yet started work on any of them as I’ve been a bit busy with other projects. I had planned to get them all finished within the first few days of receiving the cards but I have a feeling that it’ll probably end up being another late night of scribbling away into the wee small hours, just before the deadline – the same as every year.
Anyway – here’s a few of my cards from last year just to give you a taste of what I might come up with for this year’s show.

Doll Arm

This pencil sketch is another one of the many working drawings that I made for my series of small Doll Parts paintings in which the drawn line (in the painting, not the sketch) is actually formed by leaving areas of the paintings primed surface paint-free and exposed. I like drawing doll parts - it's like a cross between life drawing and still life drawing. You get to practice rendering anatomical proportions without the hassle of having a live model that keeps shifting position.

Brain Food

A Blobby Thing

This little scribble is a prime example of one of those times when I’m in the mood to draw but am just too tired to actually think of something to draw.

Orc’s Drift

I know that this isn’t exactly a doodle but I thought that I'd mix things up a bit and throw one of my old illustrations into the pot. This picture was commissioned by either RPI Magazine or Valkyrie Magazine (I can’t remember which – it was a very long time ago) and illustrates a short, comical story called Orc’s Drift. The story is based upon an old joke (and adapted for a role playing readership) where the punch line is ‘It was an ambush – there was two of them’.
I think the editor liked the fact that I knew nothing about the whole role playing scene so my illustrations where probably a bit different to what they were used to receiving.

Eton

I love doing these super-fast drawings. Although there is a sacrifice of control over the line, you do end up with some immediate and expressive marks.

Mobile Citadel Working Drawings

Here are a couple of small working drawings from one of my 2009 sketchbooks. They were for Mobile Citadel sculpture that never got completed due to the funding being cut for the show that they were to feature in. Oh well - these things happen. Maybe I'll cannibalise what I've already built and use it for another piece somewhere further down the line.

Pipe Lizard

Doll Torso

This pencil sketch is one of many working drawings that I made for my series of small Doll Parts paintings in which the drawn line (in the painting, not the sketch) is actually formed by leaving areas of the paintings primed surface paint-free and exposed.

Clava

Here's another quick-fire drawing. And once again - I'm not quite sure what it's meant to be.

Worry Hound

Totem & Dino

Here's a couple of pages from a very old sketchbook of mine, that I recently rediscovered. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind these sketches was.

Racing Frog Doodle

Tree Dreaming

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Last Page)

Here’s the final page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.

It’s based upon one of the creatures that I invented for a couple of the annual RCA Secret post card shows at the Royal College of Art in London.

Oli Bennett Secret Cards

Well the Oli Bennett Secret Cards sale has now been and gone (although, if any of the cards didn’t sell on the night then I believe that they will still be available online till the 24th) so I can finally reveal the four post cards that I created for the charity event. And here they are…

Emperor Zod

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 39)

Here’s the 39th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.

The drawing is probably a good illustration of my fascination with boxes on wheels and anything that looks like entrails, vines, tubes, pipes, cables, wires, fibres, hair etc.

Crab Claws

These two small drawings are studies that I made for my two Crab Claw paintings.

I’ve always been fascinated by crabs and their claws. When I was a child I would bring bags of shells and bits of dead crabs back from the beach, every time the family went on holiday to Wales. The only problem being that I would always forget to remove them from the boot of the car once we’d returned home. Invariably they would sit there for days and end up stinking the car out. Even today the smell of rotting sea creatures brings back happy memories.

Pink Swirly Skulls Background

 

Ok, this isn’t probably the most exciting of drawings but I thought that I’d show it to you anyway, just to let you see some of the preparatory stuff that goes on before I come up with a finished piece. These nine dripping rectangles were a few of the drawings that I came up with when I was trying to work out the block image for the background screen of my new ‘Swirly Skulls on Pink’ screen print (see image below - and click on it to see magnify). It looks like I must have settled on the top central one in the end.

Now for the sales pitch –
If you’d like one of my new, 2 colour, ‘Swirly Skulls on Pink’ screen prints, they come in a strictly limited edition of 50 and each print is signed, titled, editioned and dated. The paper dimensions are 70 x 50 cm (larger than the new, single colour, ‘Swirly Skulls’ prints which are 60 x 45 cm). And as with the new, one colour, Swirly Skull prints, these are also available for a super low, commission-free price (£60 each if bought directly from my good self). If you would like one just drop me an email at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk. Kerching!!!

Cattle Bore

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 38)

Here’s the 38th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.

It would be so much easier if my sculptures were really made this way.

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 37)

Here’s the 37th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.

It's a re-drawing of a section of one of the original working drawings that I made whilst constructing my sculpture, The City.

Hexopuss II

Leonard Rightangle

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 36)

Here’s the 36th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.

The character in this drawing is called Jellyscuttle and is a copy of one of the quick-fire drawings that I made as part of my pre-bed time drawing routine. I also reproduced the drawing in one of the postcards that I created for the 2010 RCA Secret show.

Spidermite

New Model Kit Sculpture Design

I’m currently working on some designs for a new series of wall-mounted low relief sculptures. Like my And When I’m a Man piece (which was made from 12 casts of my own body), these new works will be based upon the pre-assembled Airfix-style model kits that many of us used to make when we were kids – except that these new ones will be much smaller than my original life-sized one. For this project I will be working in collaboration with the on-line arts magazine, FAD and the California-base industrial designer, Noel Wilson.

And like my second model kit based sculpture, Baby Kit, which subverted the whole point of the model kit (as in that the sum of all its parts didn’t actually make a whole), the new series aims to do this a little more subtly by substituting just one element with something from an unrelated figure. In the case of this working drawing the right leg has been replaced with that Daffy Duck. In another design I have substituted the left arm with that of an octopus tentacle. That design, along with one based upon Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man drawing can be seen on my other blog.

Scanner Girl

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 35)

Here’s the 35th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.

The drawing is based a doodle that I made a year or so ago when I was stuck on a long coach journey travelling back up to Shropshire to visit family. There’s probably something deeply Freudian going on in this picture.

The Real Mr Potato Head

Pug Slug

Out of all of my quick-fire drawings this has got to be one of the fastest that I’ve drawn so far. At the time I hadn’t got a clue what I was drawing and I’m still not sure what it is. But I do know that it’s one of my favourites.