Drawing

These are two painting I did at college using ink. It was a black ink but when you added water to it, it often turned a rusty, orange colour and even blue in some sections. I love this effect as it added a little more depth to my still life.

Painting using food colouring

For one of my project I had to create to painting using food colouring.

I found the process simular to watercolours only they were stronger

and the colours lasted ages on the brush before I had to dip it in the

colouring again.

How to make paper

First you want to collect recycled envelopes, newspapers, scrap papers,

cardboard etc. and if you want, add to boiled plants like nettles, blackberries,

raspberry's etc. If not then tear the papers up and cover them in water to boil.
Once the papers begin to tear away from one another blender the mixture.

 You can also add fibres like from the hoover or even the tumble

 dryer to create paper full of textures and fibres.

 Then pour the mixture into a large sink or tub and fill it up with at least

 over halfway of water.

Using a metal mesh run it through the water so the mesh is coated in the

mixture.

Place the mesh onto a board with the mixture side up, and lay a jay

 cloth over the top to help draw the liquid out. You want to apply

a lot of pressure so I would put a board over the top and stand on

it. Then peel the mesh off and the mixture should stay on the jay cloth,

leave out until completely dry and peel the paper away from the cloth.

On the left is the nettle paper and on the right is blackberries with pressed

flowers. As you can see there are lots of tickets in the paper as

this was part of my summer project.

Handmade Christmas touches!

Christmas is finally here! Every year my mum, sisters and I make bags of fudge, each with their own hand tied ribbon of raffia and a handmade luggage label. We also made our own wrapping paper using a range of stamps and Christmassy colours.

-Close up of a bag of christmas fudge with labels and wrapping paper. They make lovely little gifts for family and friends alongisde a christmas card.

2D Design Pages

My project brief was to design some wallpaper for a new Paperchase

store opening in Newyork. The theme had to relate to Newyork in 

some way.   

This is the first piece I produced, using a basic skyline to

 represent lots of buildings all of different heights.

This is the second piece I produced; my favourite out

of the two. I came about this design using The Statue of Liberty

as inspiration; I took ideas from the torch and from the head

piece and combined them to create this repeat pattern.

Flowers inspired by Marimekko

To make these I drew out lots of circles on a large

piece on paper and inserted different designs into each

shape. Then I selected a few of my favourites and scanned

them into Paint Shop Pro ready to fill with colours.

Buttons

These buttons are really simple to make. I brought some Shrinkles

 paper and cut out a large circle and two small centre cirlcles. Then applied my

design on using permanent marker pens and placed in the oven for a matter of

a few seconds, under they have shrunk and are laying flat.

 This button I plan to use in my final textile piece as I used two themes to

create it, animal print and opposite colours.

A selection of all the buttons I have made recently for

various projects.

Textiles Preparation

As part of my project brief I was given a list of themes to include into

 our final piece in some way. I selected 5 themes which were:

• Animals               
• Opposite colours 
• National Costume
• Food                   
• Instruments          

I have created these chains of circles to include in my work

based on the theme of opposite colours. Originally I was going

to sew/draw on the centre of fruit patterns but decided to keep it

plain and simple.

Preparation for Textiles

 Here I played around with shredded paper and arranged it so

there were different lengths so paper going off at all angles.

Then I placed a coloured circle on the back and front and

simply put it through the sewing machine to create and chain

which will now be incorporated into my final textile piece.

Pages from my Summer Travel Journal to Croatia

Weaved containter

Final piece for textiles:

My task was to create a container using any method I liked & as I really enjoyed weaving I set out making a long weaved rectangle. Once I had produced this I soaked some hessian in PVA glue and left to dry. Once dry I was able to sew my weaving into a cylinder shape and sew on the hessian base.

Childhood Frame

For my Fine Art workshop we were asked to select a theme and produce work that relates to it. The theme I selected was 'Childhood' and I tried to capture my childhood as being fun and exciting in a frame.