Priley Riley, Work from project 2, October 2013

This piece is part of a printing project that I did in which I used a hydraulic press to print this leaf onto paper. I was happy with the amount of detail that the leaf printed, and I enjoyed using a hydraulic press for the first time.

Priley Riley, Work from project 1, October 2013

This photo shows a large watercolour painting of drapery over an easel. My aim was to capture the different tones that were cast by the folds of the material.

Priley Riley, Skull with Genetically Modified Roses

This is one of my acrylic paintings on canvas, of a skull with genetically modified roses. If you look closely, you will notice that the boarder of the canvas has been painted to give the illusion that the painting is presented in a wooden frame, which is why I set the painting on a table for the photo.  

Priley Riley, Oil Pastel Drawing of a Bearded Dragon 2

For this piece, I started off by covering a wooden board with red acrylic paint (I did this because I wanted the red to show through my drawing and make it more interesting). I then drew my pet bearded dragon on the board using oil pastel. To finish the piece, I painted the background blue, because I wanted a bright and contrasting background, before adding varnish over the top and sides in order to fix the oil pastel (which makes sure that it won't come off).

Priley Riley, Oil Pastel Drawing of a Bearded Dragon 1

This photo shows a drawing that I did, from life, of one of my pet bearded dragons. I used oil pastel on A4 paper for this piece. The most challenging aspect of producing this drawing was my bearded dragon moving! I decided to do a close-up of his head because I think that this is the most interesting and attractive part of a bearded dragon.

Priley Riley, Newspaper Piece

This is a piece that I made entirely from small bits of hand-ripped newspaper. To make it, I ripped different skin tones from photos of people in newspapers, and using a photo I had to refer to of my fiancé and I, I stuck the newspaper pieces onto a plain piece of paper taking care of where the lighter and darker tones were in the photo to see where they needed to be in my work. I find that using newspaper as the media takes a long time, but I think that the outcomes are always worth the patience!

Priley Riley, Acrylic Self-portrait

This is an acrylic self-portrait painting on A4 paper, which I painted from life (using a mirror). One of the more challenging aspects of painting this was the natural light around me changing throughout the days that I painted it.