Breathe in, breathe out

I've been doing a lot of panicking lately but it's nothing I don't expect of final projects especially my final project of Level 5 and my foundation course.
I have been very inspired this week even if I've been stressing out over deadlines!
It's very inspiring when someone comes in and answers questions that have been on your mind for sometimes, such as how do you get your work out there? how do you submit your collection to be displayed at a gallery? how does that effect our costs?
Jane Needham came in this week and spoke to us about "The Craft Centre and Design Gallery"in Leeds and how they process collections and what they're looking for, this is a great motivation for designer makers, it gives us a starting point and a great beginning for a business.

Anyway here are a few images I took today from my hand in and some  close-ups!(:

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!

Finding Inspiration: Visits part ll

Some more images and places you can go for inspiration:

Mima: http://www.visitmima.com/ Unfortunatley I didn't take any photo's at Mima but one of the rooms was actually under construction at the time anyway.

The Dorman Museum: http://www.dormanmuseum.co.uk/WWW2/index.html

which was very useful for anyone who needs history research and is just a all around great family museum.

Huge collection of Linthorpe pottery and amazing Christopher Dresser designs

and a random photo of tribal layout I found quite interesting:

 

I also visited The Winter Gardens in Sunderland: http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland.html

which  displays somewhere inbetween History, ceramics/glass and of course The Winter Gardens them selves.

Finding Inspiration: Visits part l

Hey guys so I've been collecting lots of inspiration this past week.

I went to The Biscuits Factory on Friday night and took a few photo's below for inspiration.

I only took images of objects that inspired me during my current project but there's some fantastic paintings there and beautiful larger sculptures.

http://www.thebiscuitfactory.com/