Maisie 'Noodle Head' Noble

I found Masie Noble when researching the London College of Fashion BA Fashion Illustration course. Their students had created blogs documenting some of their research and experiments, and I really loved the simplicity of this piece below.

She has used some kind of ink or watercolour on top of a photograph, and then added detail using a fineliner or ink nib. The looseness of this, contrasted with the tightness of the photograph is fascinating. I love the concept of chance in it, having a limited amount of control over the ink, yet it creates such lovely shapes.

This one has a similar method of drawing on top of photos, using some gorgeous(!) gold and silver inks.

This reminds me of some etchings in the way it looks like the pattern has been scratched into the paper. It's also similar to some Julie Kaye's work in terms of drawing on a photo in a stylised way.

I may have to have a go at this!

Below I have linked another piece that Noble created using the gold ink. I LOVE the looseness of the image, and the flowy feel of the ink. SO pretty!

http://tinyurl.com/67o676k
Here is a link to her blog:
http://tinyurl.com/646mwqc