FINALE.

A few snaps that my Mum got of me at our degree show.  The show was fantastic, everyone's work looked so amazing, well done to all of us!  

And also... A few pics from the Hoardings project.  

More degree show work.

The other part of my work is a book that I have been working on and exhibited in the show.  The same subject but a different approach.  Just a little concertina book with ever-changing facial expressions.  I name it....      FEY-SHUL-IK'SPRE-SHUNS! tadaaaaaaah!!!

OMAHHHGAWDDD. Its been too long!

OK so Its been far too long since I wrote on here and showed you what I've been up to! Basically have been inundated with work for my degree show and SO stressed, that my blog was the last thing on my list! The pieces Im going to post on here today are the work that I exhibited in the show.  My project started out first as a study of the human facial form.  I then decided that I was really interested in the faces that people pull when in fear or upset about something.  Part of my collection of work for the exhibition is a 6 piece study of this.  I researched people’s fears by asking my friends and family what theirs were personally and then some of the ones I chose I managed to rope them into letting me draw and photograph them (thanks guys :)!!).  

I hope you like them, just click on the image if you want to have a closer looky.

NEW CAMERAS :)

My Granny is Awesome! and my Uncle John! I was given these cameras this week! I have been snapping away with the Canon, and hope that its going to give me some lovely photos :) My Granny wasn't sure if its working properly though, but fingers crossed.  And the Pentax MEsuper....well...I've wanted one for agesssss, there's a little problem with it, but Im going to pop into town at some point and get someone in the nice camera shop in the Northern Quarter to fix it :D.  I feel so lucky to have been given these wonderful cameras for free, and the BEST thing is that I have 6 beautiful lenses to go with the Pentax.....lucky girl :)

Faces.

New Project....coming along slowly.  But I have finally had a really good idea and feel nice and inspired yeeyy! Here's some of my sketchbook work, just from observation, not great but I'm learning :) 

My Great Nana.

For my Granny's Christmas present I decided I wanted to do her a drawing of her mummy, my great nana...who is 98! whaa! Just a pencil drawing, first sketches done with my Nana and then I took a few photos so I could go home and work on it.  My Uncle has decided that he wants to get it printed for everyone in the family, so I thought I'd put it on here before hand. 

Birdahh, finito..

So recently, actually for too long, I have been working on a project about birds!  Its taken me some time to actually piece everything together and come up with ideas but here are the final pieces.  I ended up basing the work on the migration of that particular bird that's in the form of the British Isles.  In case its not clear, I have illustrated the migration on the Puffin and Little Owl with my collage style, and the key is in the corner, and as for the Wood-pigeon.... he goes bloody everywhere so I decided to leave it as it would have covered the drawing.  I do really like them, as an idea, and the Puffin is my favourite and most successful.  However there is room for improvement if I wanted to work on them. But I don't...well not any time soon! Hope you like them :) 

Golden Oldies **

Found a sketch book I was using last year just for random stuff, been thinking about the next project I'm gonna do, and this stuff may link in as AGAIN I think I shal be doing it about hair :D may go for a portraiture kind of approach, not sure but.....I guess it'l take its path as I get on with it.  Any way I'm not starting it yet, until I've finished my final pieces for my bird project (coming soon!).

Great tit.

Work in progress, a few shots in the studio, sketch book ideas, and some old etchings from christmas :)

Some dry-point prints I did by accident! Was meant to be doing an etching but completely forgot to prepare my plate so it ended up being a dry-point.  The one on the right is my first attempt, as you can see its my lighter and you cant see much detail, the one on the left is my second attempt, I worked into it again where I wanted the lines to be darker.  I'm quite happy with the out come, its no final piece but definitely some good experimentation.

Steretchhhhhhh hrmphhhhhh

Ok so I want to do some nice pieces on paper and I don't want it all wrinkly and un-professional :D

Sooooo I'm stretching it, used the bath, put cold water in, left the paper for an hour to soak then have stretched it across my desk....only i ran out of gum tape, which is sooo annoying as I planned on having a really productive evening stretching paper! Darn it! any way here's what it looks like for those like my mama who don't know what stretching paper is (its still wet at the moment).  And also thought I'd put a couple of photos of my little Dorian on as he's just too cute not to show.

Dorian-Gandalf-Gandhi