Take a Risk.

Take a Risk...

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your ideas, your dreams,
before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The people who risk nothing, do nothing,
have nothing, are nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves;
they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

J'adore Project.

I got given a project a few weeks ago called 'Ja'dore' in this project I had to chose someone I know or didn’t, so I decided to choose an artist called Derek Hess. Hess is one of my favorite artist I've loved his work since the moment I first saw it. I went out on a limb with this one because I knew some things but not a lot, so this is where this project helped me to expand my knowledge about Hess. So here it is, this is my project...

J'adore sketch book work.

Here is a few pages form my sketch book, enjoy.

Seen before on my blog but this if eem in this project

Also seen on my blog but again a big part of my project

Open pages of my work for artist research

more research

Little bit more.

really fast derek hess dryin done in ink. 

Fallen angel drawing inspired by Hess.

j'adore dry point prints

Here is a select few dry point prints i produced for my project.

My plate and my main prints

I didnt use this print so i decided to work on this in pen.

Again i didnt use this one so i worked onto it with water colour.

This is a stand alone print.

now this print was done on material then worked on with pastels.

J'adore Image maker.

Here is my image maker on calico which i produced from my small dry point prints.

Series of image maker prints.

close up of print.

J'adore large print designs.

Here is my large dry point designs.

First design jester

Yet another card theme this is called 'king of hearts'

Simple rose design

Charcoal and water colour 'blood hands'

Ja'dore Large scale dry point prints.

Also for my project i did a series of large scale prints, this is how they turned out.

First attempt of dry point print

This is my seconed attempt but this time i used a darker colour.

Slightly lighter print number 3

what i think is the worse print out of the series. far to light but atleast i have it to back my work.