1. After creating wire sculptures depicting Jesus’
face I decided to create a drawing based on
the pieces. I chose to complete the drawings
using my left hand as the wire is really bent
and crinkled and because I do not have as
much control over my left hand I thought the
lines that I would make would accurately
portray the texture of the wire.
After completing the drawings I noticed that
the work reminded me of that of Gary Hume.
He is an English artist who came to
prominence in the early 90’s as part of the
‘Young British Artists’. He has a wide range of
work but what I found similar to my own were his line drawings. For example; these pieces
both titled Water Painting (1999).
His paintings are easy on the eye, slick, shiny gloss paint on aluminium panels, they create a
calming atmosphere which is helped by the poses of the figures he draws; they look very
calm and carefree.
I admire Gary Hume’s work his drawings have an interesting layered effect which make
them quite surreal. I’d like to try and recreate his technique and produce some larger
drawings in response to his ‘Water Paintings’ series as his work are quite large and my
previous drawing was only A4.

2. This drawing is on an A1 size paper. To
produce it I put used my second wire
study and projected it onto paper using
a visualizer and then drew the lines. I
did this in response to the work of Gary
Hume as his work is quite large.
I also drew this image inspired by his Water
Paintings series as the layered technique he used
in those looked very interesting. To create this
piece I put my third wire study under the
visualizer and projected it onto paper and after I
drew it I would move the figure and then draw
over the previous drawing and so on. I moved
the wire three times and drew each time to get
this final result.