2014 update!

Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated my blog in a while, I hope everyone is well and having a great year so far.

 I haven't done many personal posts lately,

 so I thought I'd post some work I did during the Christmas/ New Year Break since I got some new art equipment and a lot more time and motivation from a few sleep-ins and a lot of food.

I'll be updating my blog with a post on my project and hand-in later on!

Here I used Water colours, fine liners and edited slightly on Photoshop

My new obsession is American Horror Story(can't be very healthy)

But I felt like having a go at another portrait because they're great for testing your proportional skills and even better I decided to use my prisma colours and go a bit mental with colour, because why not?

The original photo is below, a little off but I'm starting to improve.

 And of course, I find food so fun to paint/draw 

especially sushi because of all the colours and attention to detail!

Update.

I've been thinking about the whole learner agreement part of this project this week.

I think this is the hardest part considering all the other weeks have been fun with experimenting with materials and finding out new techniques.

I have a lot of samples to choose from and this week we also had a group crit.

The rest of my group picked out samples they really liked and how I could make products from them and what I could do next.

I really love getting a second opinion or more on my work because when you look at it for too long you start to over think what other people would find interesting.

I'm still not 100% sure what I want to make but I'm thinking about a decoration object and then accessories

focusing more on jewellery and ceramics.

A lot of people liked the cylinder shape so I've been working with that, my tutor suggested I work with a sphere shaped moulds to try it out and experiment so that's my plan for Monday, I really like the idea of sticking with the rounded shape because it was successful in jewellery and I want my pieces to look like a collection in the end.

In my own time I'm trying to get back into painting, I'd love to take some photos of my own and paint them later on so they're more personal but at the moment I was just browsing the internet and came across this.

 I really love the style of Francoise Neilly and expressionist painting

I did this using acrylic paint with pallette knifes and black ink with brushes on a plain while canvas.

Back to the Drawing board.

Yes, I did sit there and think of that title for 5 minutes. 

This post is about getting back to drawing and being free of assignments and freeing your mind. 

Summer is a great way to practice what you've learnt in the past year and push your new skills!

 I felt like I lost a lot of what I enjoyed doing before such as drawing and painting whilst I was focused on my Uni work but next year I plan on finding a happy medium.

Of course I will be starting work full time again soon but I won't let that fill all my time.

Here's some drawings/painting I've done lately.

Half Term part 1!

So I haven't made a post in a while but I've been up to lots in our Easter half term.

I dyed my old denim jacket using Dylon products. For my jacket I used powder pink and Intense violet. I used bottles to directly squirt the dye into the places I wanted it then massaged it in with my hand, I wore gloves! Next I left it for a bit and then placed it into a black bag and left it in there for a few hours before washing it out with water.

 After letting it dry I then touched it up again with purple to show more depth

 Plus my niece, Lilly Rose was born 6/04/13

Very Exciting!

I'll take some photo's later of what I've been getting up to in my project, either today or tomorrow(: