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Sketching Marcelo
Marcelo is a Chilean artist living in London and will be participating in my research project. Marcelo only sent me three photos, so I...
Madeleina Kay
Oct 3, 20241 min read
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Adam's Colours
Me and Adam decided on the best photo to use for the final portrait and I created the linework portrait before adding the watercolour...
Madeleina Kay
Aug 13, 20242 min read
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Ania's Colours
I created the line-work portrait from Ania's preferred photo before adding her colours in watercolour splatters. I t took Ania a while to...
Madeleina Kay
Aug 11, 20241 min read
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Sketching Adam
I first connected with Adam, when he sent me an email to tell me about a pro-European concert he was organising and to express his...
Madeleina Kay
Aug 5, 20241 min read
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Sketching Ania
Ania is a Ukrainian artist living in Switzerland and a member of my art collective - Dare to Care . I made this series of three linework...
Madeleina Kay
Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Oil Portrait Test - Lora
Lora's was my final "test" painting before I start the final oil portraits. I decided to start with a slightly different approach to the...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 30, 20241 min read
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Research Project Revision
Due to the difficulties I have been experiencing in trying to co-ordinate in-person interviews with my research project participants - I...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 24, 20243 min read
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Oil Portrait Test - Redi
I decided to make another "test" piece for my oil portraits, to see whether adding light splatters to the background added to the overall...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 23, 20241 min read
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Oil Portrait Test - Kristyna
I decided to do a "test" piece for my oil portraits on a canvas half the size which I will eventually create them on. I decided to work...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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Nikita in Colour
I started with the linework in waterproof ink for Nikita's portraits. I have a cheat method for accuracy of using my Macbook screen as a...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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Livia in Colour
Post elections I'm slowly getting back to making some progress on my identity research project... I need to be more focussed on this over...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 9, 20241 min read
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Sketching Nikita
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Sketching Livia
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Madeleina Kay
May 1, 20241 min read
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"Flags are a flattening of identity" - Lora's interview
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Madeleina Kay
Apr 28, 20241 min read
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JC in Colour
These are the watercolour and ink portrait and oil pastel study of JC Candanedo who is participating in my research project. First, I...
Madeleina Kay
Feb 6, 20241 min read
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Kristyna Oil Pastel Draft 2
This is a second draft of the oil pastel study of Kristyna who is participating in my research project. The oil pastel drawings are...
Madeleina Kay
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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Drawing JC
JC Candanedo is participating in my MA Research project. He is a photographer, artist and trustee for Axis (the Arts charity for which I...
Madeleina Kay
Jan 23, 20241 min read
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Intersectional Identities in Oil Pastels
I created these oil pastel drawings of Lora, Redi and Kristyna who are participating in my MA Research Project into intersectional...
Madeleina Kay
Jan 17, 20243 min read
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Adding a Splash of Colour to my sketches
Still working with my friends, Redi, Lora and Kristyna's portraits - I decided to turn their portrait sketches into an abstract splatter...
Madeleina Kay
Jan 7, 20243 min read
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Drawing Lora
Lora Krasteva is one of my MA research participants and a close friend of mine in Sheffield. I asked her to send me some photographs from...
Madeleina Kay
Jan 3, 20242 min read
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