Sophie Ashdown

Continuing my challenge to create a new piece of art every day for 30 days.

For day 15 the prompt was “Todays work should vanish by the end of the day.” I certainly chose to ignore the prompt for this day because part of the reason I’m doing this challenge is to build up a body of work and to try out potential ideas for bigger pieces in the Constructivist style to support my Study Statement.

So I decided to focus on the motif of straight lines, but in this case wanted to find a way to have them interweaving with each other in unexpected ways.

I do like this work with how the lines cross over and under each other with no obvious regulation to them. You can’t predict whether the lines will go over or under.

Of course when I look back on the piece, my eyes are immediately drawn to the mistakes! That is the downfall of doing these pieces in ink because I can’t erase the mistakes!

Luckily I still like the result so just avert my eyes from the errors.

For day 16 the prompt was “Rewild your work.” This was a tough one to consider because am I taking a piece a work that was already “wild” and making it wilder? Or am I taking a previous idea to make it newly “wild?” Either way the prompt did not resonate with me except to encourage a freer form piece.

I decided to use repetitive line shapes that cross over, to see how the combinations of crossing lines would appear.

I like how there is a lot of movement in this piece, especially as the shapes each seem to start from a point on the outside and extend outwards across the paper. I like how where the shapes cross over each other, there are new shapes created amongst the repeated lines.

So these two pieces above both focus on lines but in different ways. The first one is more in keeping with the Constructivist style, but the second one has merit for its movement.