drawing

Self-portrait in felt

| Anna Cull
Finger puppet self-portrait in New Regent Street, Christchurch, 2010.Student project – mixed media, drawing and photography.
Finger puppet self-portrait in New Regent Street, Christchurch, 2010.
Student project – mixed media, drawing and photography.

A fun, three-day project.

I have always loved the Spanish Mission style architecture of New Regent Street. The pastel green, yellow and blue façades are like the icing on the cake of central Christchurch. The street was opened on 1st April 1932. Happy 80th birthday, New Regent Street.

The street suffered some damage during Canterbury’s recent earthquakes but has survived remarkably well. It is, however, in the city’s no-go Red Zone. There are plans to restore the street and to try and reopen it by Christmas 2012.

P.S.

| Anna Cull

Here are a couple of other D&A projects…

A newspaper ad promoting Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day. Originally a 72-hour group project, this ad is my personal solution. It was created using images sourced from the Internet.

Christchurch City Mission installation (concept): a graffiti-knitted artwork to raise awareness of the City Mission and encourage $2 text donations. My idea is that giving to a good cause is like giving (and receiving) a ‘warm fuzzy’. The mock-up shows knitted scarves wrapped around wooden seats. Donate and feel the love!

And here are a few pages from my sketchbook…

Playing with my (then) new Winsor & Newton watercolour pan set which I bought for sketching while out and about.

These were exercises suggested by Danny Gregory in his book The Creative License: drawing in other languages…

Rembrandt sketch.
Degas sketch.

…and copying the work of famous artists. The Rembrandt turned into a study of 17th Century hats.