Shells & Steel has more meaning to it in a sense of what it is portraying and in how I am starting to show my beliefs within my work. It may simply be two snails on a rusted old oil barrel, but it is showing how we are quick to action when something gives immediate results or is immediately impacting us alone, but slow to action when something has a gradual or subtle impact to us.
Rust will always appeal to me, I am always attracted to weathered and aged material and I love getting its effects across on paper. It was challenging to get the light right on the snails skin because of the multitude of textures, and how the light played on it.
Shells & Steel took over 100 hours to complete.
Charcoal on paper.
