188 posts tagged “art”

This was my first project at uni. Everyone was given colour to research, to be inspired by and to create a piece capturing the essence of. Mine was scarlet and I went down a little red riding hood avenue. I'm getting very into the darker side of fairytales and their prevalence in our culture. This bit in the Guardian about fairytales is definitely worth a read.

Anyway, ironically for a project about scarlet I draw it all in black and white. I carefully cut red riding hood out so that last red page would show through all the way to the first. 

It all started with a visit to a shop called bygones and curious which is full of beautiful old things. I did some drawings and decided to make them into a repetative pattern and it was actually really fun. The original drawings are done in ink and then repeated on photoshop.

 

The fabulous children's magazine Anorak is holding a competotion to design the winter cover and this is what I came up with. Rather cool - my old tutor and mentor Simon Wild is a regular contributer.

I went to Paris with three amazing friends for the first time last week and I loved every second of it. I found it an incredibly inspiring place (the architecture, the carousels, the pastries!) and was constantly sketching during my brief three day visit. Naturally I couldn’t wait to get drawing when I got back and made Paris my fourth summer project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This book is supposed to be a wander though my mind, so I hope you enjoy it. Images are best viewed large. This is my third summer project.

Negative thoughts are like moths. You need to catch them before they start to do damage. Something I'm getting better at.

My second package contains three coffee drawing and little handmade sketchbook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the last month I moved out of my (rather nicely decorated) room in halls of residence.

And into my grandparent's baker street flat for the summer

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My summer project set by my second year tutor was to create six bits of work from six different times over the summer. These then needed to be posted to our second year tutor, with the packaging an important part of the project. My first project was to record things about my last weeks at halls. Little things like how I decorated my room, the pens on my desk, the people and met and the old photos my boyfriend gave me. Here are a fews bits of that work. 

 

Anyone who knows me knows that I very, very much like coffee. It's a family affliction, my parents just bought their own coffee grinder because it's cheaper to grind your own beans and I routinely drink half a litre of filter coffee in the morning. Anyway, my love and appreciation for coffee has blossomed as I have realised the versatilities of coffee as a medium.

Here are the pages for my memory based book called 'I Heart NY'. I'll write more about each page on the individual image description. It's concertina bound with a thick white outer cover that is embossed with the New York sky line, but unfortunatly my tutors still have the actual book. My tutor gave it a provisional 2:1 grade but when he showed it to my second year tutor he said he'd been stingy and said that he would have given it a 1st. Firsts in the first year are very rare and it was a big enough deal that my tutor came to tell me this himself. However the second year tutor isn't marking it so I shouldn't get too excited. If you'd like to see some my friend's books they've posted pages from theirs on their blogs here and here (blogs belonging to Gemma and James respectively, two very talented people).