For this year, I'm continuing with my religion theme and focusing on the Catholic Church once again. Last year I felt I didn't get what I wanted out of it, so this year will be different!
To begin with I decided to do a drawing based project. I came to art college because I love to draw but sadly, I have ended up not drawing the way I like since I started. So I've been having some fun drawing my holy images in the way I like.
I started with pen drawings as I have an obsession with drawing with biro, always have. I created my own little happy creepy looking priest who will be the basis for a lot of my drawings. I decided to incorporate David Godbold's way of doing his art work. He uses tracing paper to make layers of drawing on text.
I started an online survey which is where I got a lot of my ideas for my drawings from. Majority of people had a very negative view and opinion of the church so I decided to show both sides of the argument. I wanted to show how the church was seen long ago to how its seen now hence the drawing of the nun. I also was taking bible quotes and quotes from church teachings and contrasting them with images underneath.
A lot of people spoke about how they have their direct line to God and don't feel the need to go through the priest anymore in todays society so as one of the first tracing paper drawings, the line going directly over the priest to the holy heavenly hand above seemed like a good way to show this.
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