10 posts tagged “drawing”

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. 

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 know I have been awful about updating, and it not because I've had a creative slump or gotten lazy (kind of the opposite), I just haven't had the internet for quite a while. I thought I'd start my resumed blogging with some good news. A few months ago Millie Boyd contacted me about one of my Christmas card designs and it was shown to Woodmansterne in a meeting. I didn't want to say anything in case I didn't get it, and for a long time I didn't hear anything and then last week I got the email saying they wanted to buy my design. My drawing will on Christmas cards sold in shops everywhere in 2010. :)

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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.

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. 

 

I was going to make the most of the uni's screenprint facilities and screenprint myself some t-shirts. I had them all designed but then I had to have a lot of emergency hospital, doctor's and optician's appointment about my eyes. I had my eyes dilated, ultrasounded, completely numbed and thoroughly checked in a myriad of different ways. They're fine but I missed my opportunity to screen print. Anyway, here's what I was going print on t-shirts. They're in black and white so I could expose the images onto the screen.

 

In Camden yesterday I discovered what is probably the best milkshake in the world. There's this little cafe just past the market hall run by the loveliest little old man and they have about 20 varieties of milkshake. At £3.80 it's not cheap but it's plenty for two people and probably death for one. We got strawberry because it's The Boy's favourite, and whilst we were drinking a massive pink milkshake through curly pink straws I was aware that we had in fact become nauseatingly adorable. Well, more nauseatingly adorable than normal.

I drew this this morning with two pink sharpies and my hand carved rubber stamps.

Some time last year I saw a draw-your-own-calender which obviously I had to have. It's got a nice big space to work and is printed on lovely thick paper that you can work straight onto. It's also very nice to draw something some a month that is purely for yourelf. I'm so busy and I have so many projects these days that that happens a lot less often than you'd think.

Here's January

 

And Feburary

And here's the calender in action