New still-life series

I've started a few new series in portraiture and still life in the last four weeks. These traditional art formats and subjects owe to recent decisions to draw regularly, and in doing so there's been a natural recollection back to my art school education l think. Currently drawing up more but below are the first two completed from this new body of work, the portraits follow a radically different style and will be posted up here soon.

The intricate detail in the subject matter suggests for me how these objects at my own choosing have been assembled as a still life in my studio and exist completely under the artist's control. In the context of these drawings the subject matter does not exist in the natural world where l might only be able to make a fleeting study of them but instead, exist in a space i've devised and were completely stationary as l returned home each afternoon to work on the drawings further.

Stay tuned,

Jim S

9v (studio study) ink on paper (11)

9vs (illuminated) ink on paper (11)