DRAWING...... i cant do it

why am i doing dogs?? 

i cant draw....

never mind draw dogs...

i decide to just started by doing sketches to try and get my confidence up about drawing the dogs this really worked :)

sketchy beginning drawings

i can produce the detailed drawing when i get my confidence up and believe in myself

working progress but sky is getting there 

I feel that by the end of this project i am going to have a lot of confidence to produce more detailed drawings and to challenge myself in what i produce.

19th Century project...... The Pups

This project has to be my favourite yet, all hand crafted beautiful pieces and we can use anything to inspired us so i am making mine personal to me and what is in my life. This is one of the ting that i miss the most when i am away from home my dogs, the constant companion that is always there no matter what. 

this is 3 of them but my old man was not feeling up for photos today

I have decided that within this project i feel i will do something different to what i normally produce and choose to do an artist book involving all the dogs.

The Big Exciting News !!!!

This is very personal to me over Christmas my boyfriend proposed to me it was the best moment of my life. Every girl dreams of that moment and I never though that it would happen to me. With this news I now feel like I not only need to work hard to get a good degree for myself I now want to work had and make my fiancée proud of me and proud to have a girlfriend that went to uni and completed it with a good high degree. It is hard being apart but I will be better of in the long run for going. I am already getting ideas on what I want to do and include for the next project that makes it personal and memorable to me.

Christmas Break

Well being home is strange; where is the traffic noise, where are the noisy workers outside my bedroom window and also why is there no sirens??

It is a very serial feeling being away from the city away from the noise, the atmosphere and also away from the people. Being home in my little town is quiet but I am home.

looking around there are so many things around where I live that inspire me there is a wide range of different architecture which I love to include within my work. From the drive from my house to my mams there are 4 ranging bridges ranging from Victorian to modern and also a wide range of buildings from many different periods. 

Looking across the queen Victoria bridge going over the river tees you can just sit and watch the birds as they are swooping down over the water they look so peaceful.

When the odd boat or rower goes past and disturbs the birds it just looks like there are clouds made from flying scared birds. 

Photoshop......

well i forgot how much i loved to use Photoshop, creating my own designs with using my own drawings. using Photoshop makes me believe that my work can be made into something as you can manipulate your designs onto objects to see what it would look like.

this is one of my designs which i have made to look like it is the wallpaper in this bedroom.

These are just a few of my 18th century designs i have enjoyed producing these and feel that if i work hard i can produce a unique but very inspiring piece of work at the end of this project.

18th century...

im finally doing work i love. old historical drawings and PHOTOSHOP love producing drawings that i can the produce into something else like a Photoshop design which can be used in fashion or interiors.

1st drawing of the 18th century project

within this project i want to produce a range of different drawings which i can then manipulate them within Photoshop to create a wide range of varied prints. 

My finals the end of the 1950's project..

whoop finally finished my designs :)

within this project i have enjoyed looking into the 1950's but i have felt quiet contained in the fact that i couldn't broaden the brief and go off into different sections i had to stick to a strong 1950's inspiration. i finished my project 4 days early did i do enough? is it good enough? what will they think if it isn't?

Creating the final print....

well doing the final group print wasnt as hard as we thought we all seemed to work well together to produce a beautiful final piece. 

mixing our colours

deciding which one to use hummm....

practising our stencils

printing the many stencils

the exciting bit doing the actual screen print 

revealing the print

its finished....

its finished...

its finished...

finishing this group task was so nice so that I could then concentrate on my own 5 designs. I personally don't like working in groups I like to physically have my own piece of work at the end of a project. 

NEW men....

After producing the group design i felt that i could see about drawing some men in a different way to use on my prints. i have looked into drawing the silhouettes of them but i am also wanting to still take inspiration from Leeds by drawing the silhouettes of a men with a suitcase, a woman with an umbrella and an owl. they all flow quiet well together.

These are taking inspiration from artist Sylvia Chalmers.

My take on Sylvia's work but using the images i want to interpret into 50's inspired designs with inspiration also from Leeds

Henri Mattis

When doing these drawings/cut work i have took inspiration from two main artists two quiet different artists. one is Sylvia Chalmers who draws the silhouette of the figure and then Henri Mattis who is more abstract when he is drawing the human figure.

Deciding on a layout....

Working in a group is hard, trying to come up with a final print which looks food, flows well, and includes a piece of everyone's work. within our piece we have a wide range of work as we have all done quiet different things. I took us a while but we managed to come up with a few designs and then we got to our final which has got elements of everyone's work on it. 

     We produced out kodatrace onto the tracing paper which was difficult as we new what we wanted on it we just couldn't all decide on where it should all go. 

The sheet we got to help with the kodatrace

Now we have all agreed and got it put on the screen i cannot wait to get it printed and to see what it looks like.