Snek Neck Selfies

Untitled Selfie (snek neck & spots) , Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper  

Untitled Selfie (Snek Neck Tabletop), Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

A series of self portraits involving snake-like necks.

Selfie

Untitled Selfie (white on black), Chaz Howkins, 2018, pencil and acrylic on paper

White pencil on a black acrylic background. 

Selfie

Degree Show Installation Selfie, Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

A self portrait drawn during the installation week for Degree Show, clearly the installation was weighing on my mind.

Selfies

Untitled Selfie (shapely body), Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

Untitled Selfie (Facemask), Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

Self portrait drawings.

Not Selfies

"Make Sure You Include My Mind-Reading Antennae",  Chaz Howkins, 2018, pen on paper

Untitled (The Foot Doesn't Mean Anything), Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

Circle of Sisterhood, Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

The wife suggested that I branch out from only ever drawing myself, so I began drawing her instead.

Portrait Drawings

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

A selection of the portrait drawings which can be found under the toilet seats lids of Don't Linger.

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Detail shots from Don't Linger while installed at Loughborough Fine Art Degree Show 2018.

January Self Portraits

Untitled Selfie (07/01/18), Chaz Howkins, 2018,
ink on paper

Untitled Selfie (12/01/18), Chaz Howkins, 2018,
ink on paper

Bear Selfie, Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

Spring Clock Selfie, Chaz Howkins, 2018,
ink on paper

A selection of self portraits from January 2018.

Life Hack

Life Hack For Joy, Chaz Howkins, 2018, ink on paper

Self Portraits

Untitled Selfie (26/11/17), Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

Snake Hair Selfie, Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

Coffin Selfie, Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

A selection of recent self portraits.

December Self Portraits

The Last Day Of It (selfie), Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

Untitled Selfie (21/12/17), Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

Untitled Selfie (12/17), Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

Untitled Selfie (13/12/17), Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

Untitled Selfie (7/12/17), Chaz Howkins, 2017,
ink on paper

A selection of self portraits drawn during December 2017.

Self Portrait

Selfie inspired by Rick and Morty, Chaz Howkins, 2018, fine liner on paper

A self portrait drawing while watching Rick and Morty, which inspired the bulging eyes.

Interrogation in situ

Interrogation (in situ)

An experiment to see how the artwork would look placed atop a real toilet - perhaps in future I could create these portraits with slogans as stickers to be stuck under the lids of public toilets as a form of activism. 

Gendered Space photography series

Gendered Space, Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

Gendered Space #2, Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

Gendered Space #3, Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

Gendered Space #4, Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

Gendered Space #5 (Self), Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

Gendered spaces such as bathrooms are a place of anxiety for androgynous presenting people as we are often subjected to interrogation or harassment.  I posed an androgynous model in this unsafe space with the words ‘are you a boy or a girl’ written on their face to replicate this common experience.

Self Portraits

Untitled (Yellow Selfie), Chaz Howkins, 2017, oil and acrylic on paper

Untitled (Yellow Selfie #2), Chaz Howkins, 2017, oil and acrylic on paper

My first attempts at creating a self portrait using oil paint (acrylic was only used for the backgrounds).

Screenshot #4

Screenshot #4, Chaz Howkins, 2017, acrylic and masking tape on paper and acetate

To create a three dimensional effect, I created a box around my painting made of acetate and painted on it in strips so that the portrait would be distorted differently from different angles.

Care Package

Care Package, Chaz Howkins, 2017, pencil and chalk on padded envelope

Most of the work I've been creating relating to my long distance relationship has centred around glitched screens and digital forms of communication, so I wanted to contrast this by creating a singular realistic portrait related to the rare time that we send each other physical post.

Glass Experimentations

Computer Screen Print #2, Chaz Howkins, 2017, oil paint on glass

Computer Screen Smudge, Chaz Howkins, 2017, oil paint on glass

Computer Screen Print, Chaz Howkins, 2017, oil paint on glass

My intention for this piece was to paint onto a sheet of glass and then place another sheet on glass on top of the wet painting so that the paint is squished and distorts the image.  However when I squished the two sheets of glass together, the paint wasn't very distorted and the desired effect wasn't achieved.  I then pulled the two sheets of glass apart and found that the image left on the underside of the upper sheet of glass was quite an interesting, distorted shell of a portrait, so replicated the effect with another sheet of glass to create this triptych.

Self Portraits

Reaction Selfie #2, Chaz Howkins, 2017, fine liner on paper

Reaction Selfie #1, Chaz Howkins, 2017, pencil on paper

Portrait Drawings

Katya The Tank Engine, Chaz Howkins, 2017,
 fine liner

Katya Melting Portrait, Chaz Howkins, 2017,
 fine liner and coloured pencil

Two portraits taken from a series of drawings created while intoxicated.