156 posts tagged “art”
Sourly eating sour cherry in a sour cherry tree, of course. Made with acrylic paint and cut up sweet wrappers on brown paper.
So, after the sucess of my russian doll collage I decided to make some more. First I made little stuffed ones with patterned fabric and hand painted faces.
Then I made some more collaged one which I backed with thick watercolour paper, laminated or vanished and turned into miniture art jewerly.I made most of them with sweet wrappers just because I love the bright colours and patterns. Most of these will be in the shop once it's re-stocked.
Here are some bits and pieces from my illustration project on circuses. All my work had been been in my portfolio then was being marked but I've got it back now. I thought I'd share some of the stuff I do at college with you over the next week or so. These were made with coloured paper. foam stamps, paint and white ink.
I hoard paper (I have a big box, an A3 folder and magazine holder full of it), some of which I've used to make this hoard of Russian Dolls.
Last night was the private view of the show and had a truely fantastic time. I took this as an opportunity to dress up and wore my little yellow dress. The exhibition was really great and everyone seemed to like my rabbits.
Now here's the weird bit. There is a Most Outstanding Student Award. And I was awarded it.
I was voted most oustanding student of the year.
Weird, huh?
I don't know what my prize is yet because I have to wait till December before I receive it.
They're lots of fun to draw. I wish I'd discovered this love of lace collars and ruffs before I visited the V&A, though.
The last two photos I nicked from my friend's Facebook. :)
In total there was 109 rabbits. It's not a special number, I just didn't really keep count as I made them so that's how many I ended up with.
The answer to the question 'how did you get them to stand up?' is doubled sided sticky tape and rocks. I used at least 5 metres of doubled sided sticky tape and left my bag of nice, clean stones sitting on the kitchen tables so I had dig though the college flowers beds (I use that term very losely) to find stones (fun times). Arranging 100 bunnies is much more stressful and exhausting than it sounds. Don't try it. It took me about 5 hours, and since I had to leave early to catch a train I didn't have time for lunch. Worth it though. I can't wait for the Private View of the show. :)
I'm am enjoying the square format of my new paperchase sketchbook. The brown paper isn't actually very easy to sketch on so I'm using lots of collage and pen which is fun. I also like drawing speech bubbles at the moment
Let's be honest, I'd love a dress like that. This is a birthday card made for my cousin Katie.
