Manifold meanderings into making
This was a special commission for a summer wedding. With this in mind, I thought I would create a summer ‘spread’ of flowers, as if in a banquet table. I thought of enlarging my fringed flowers to approximately 8 cm in diameter! I used a Cricut machine for this. The flowers then gave me the…
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This is the final piece for my Warwickshire Open Studios group show at UHCW, here in Coventry. My best friends were the muses. The idea was to celebrate nursing – a profession that, quite literally, has brought people from different parts of the world to work together and care for patients in our National Health…
Read MoreI drew a portrait of very good friend of mine. She turned 40 this year and to celebrate the occasion, I thought I’d draw her face. The drawing was done in charcoal and graphite on cartridge paper. These were what I had on impulse. I thought this was a simple and direct enough approach, without…
Read MoreI’ve drawn a pastel study of a very good friend of mine. She has modelled some of my clothes before and this was one of those moments when we were putting on some make up and coiffing her hair. That day was such fun! I shall forever cherish that photoshoot. Anyway… For her birthday, I…
Read MoreThese are the sons of a friend of mine and they had a shared birthday party yesterday. I thought I’d have a go at drawing them for the occasion. I don’t think it’s a bad effort but I do think I need tons of improvement still! I think I caught the likeness of my godson.…
Read MoreI call this little piece ‘Margiela in Sugar Caramel’. It’s a small tribute to the master himself. It’s a modification of a pattern that the Margiela team have uploaded for sharing in Showstudio. I’ve made a crochet motif in fine thread which looks like one of those delicate sugar webs that pudding chefs make. For…
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The Art of Jeff Ting 