Wise old owl poem

Wise old owl lived in an oak the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard, soldiers should imitate that old bird.

Tea bags and wax skin samples

I wanted to make my idea seem less human, and zoom in more to the parts of the skin around the more dominent facial features. Here I have used teabags and wax, then stitched on the surface making french knots to look as though the parts of the skin are just about attached, linked together by something very delicate.

Transfer prints of WW1 soldiers faces

Images using transger printing and machine stitch,showing a close-up of the marks of the faces.

Sketchbook samples

Samples from my sketchbook, looking at the marks of the skin and subtle hints of colour.

Varying scale drawings

A selection of images from a drawing workshop,exploring scale of image. I decided to draw from an image of a sample of french knots.

Large scale drawing pictures

Here are some images of my big drawing, I decided to use fine liner and make a continuious line darwing of the soldiers on a journey.

ImperialWar Museum Pictures, medicine section

 Above are several artificial limbs from the Imperial War museum.

Here is one of the masks, this one must have been used by a soldiers with an eye injury.