As I have already stated, I do not work in a linear way, I start new ideas while I am currently working on other things, it is part of the same body of work just different threads.

This is a drawn on stone pebble encased in wool which has been hand dyed by an artisan hand dye business, I chose this colour as it is so un-natural neon yellow exploring how encasing a natural element I.e. stone pebble in what appears to be unnatural, it’s also a contrast of hard versus soft and relates to enclosing my plastic dolls in natural wool although all of these are neutral colours.

This stone had a few holes and I could have left the drawing off, the colour of the wool here is variegated but muted and I like the contrast against this pebble.

I went a little overboard here adding ears and neck but ignoring that, looking at the colour, for me it just does not work, it is too ‘candy’ ‘pretty’, I felt it was important to include this even though I do not like it at all, I feel it veers towards the are of, without being rude, home crafts? By asking why I did not like this I found out more than just dismissing it.

For me the piece has to convey my message, I find using colour difficult, in the same way I used to find drawing difficult and in this sense I hope to find my way through this! Colour has its own language, avoiding colour has its own meaning and it’s an area I am going to explore.

Having received feedback I decided to think about character, do I need to draw a face on the pebbles at all?

I put this question to followers on Instagram

I have included the screenshot of the comment although my Instagram account can be accessed from my home page. This is a recent post.

I decided to follow suggestions about finding pebbles that had texture to add emphasis of possible features but for this new piece I have used natural wool in a natural colour.

The image has a contrast of busy background, this is a sample and ideas going further are yet to be resolved.