foundation work . . .

I've recently been going through a load of my Art Foundation work (in the view to throwing most of it away) and I thought I'd post bits from a few of my favourite projects, also because I'm not doing anything new at the moment.

A project that started with us choosing a piece of art or design or architecture that is completely different from our own style. I decided to go for skyscrapers as my work usually tends to be more curved and flowing but straight away shoved a load of colour in there to bring it back to the norm!

 Fashion illustration week which taught me that water colours and layout paper are hateful together.

final major project (part 3) . . .

Right, so here is the last of my final major project posts! All the work has been marked and the exhibition has been open for a few days already. I was given a corner space in which to show my work but I was quite worried that I didn't have enough work to fill it as I chose to make a film rather than do photographs, in the end though I think it turned out nicely.

 I combined designing a collection with pretty collaged illustrations.

home made photography . .

These photos were taken with a machbox pinhole camera I made myself a little while ago and I absolutely love the results! It was so easy to make and the only downside is that somewhere along the line I messed up the spacing so that when the film was developed the people in Boots cut most of the pictures in half which is a shame, next time I'll make sure to be more precise.

The red and white streaks down the side of the photos are the product of a light leak somewhere in the camera, although I actually quite like this effect I'll try and find the gap and tape it up for the next roll of film.

colour collages . . .

Line drawings of windows around City College and their compositions led to these slightly optical illusion-like collages. We had to pick three colours out of the hat and mix and paint up what ever we were given: I had chalk white, satsuma orange and slate grey.

The first few days of collaging little squares of coloured paper from my window drawings were a bit of a drag but once I got the wet paint and fashion designs involved I was loving it! Abstract collage and splodges and dripping paint are just my thing!

oh so many flowers . . .

How is it that we go for months without any flowers in the house and then 5 bunches come along at once? I love having flowers in the house, it makes up for the sad lack of vegetation outside.

 Last week we had a flower project so the class room was full of an asortment of blooms, it looked and smelt the nicest it has ever been, that is, it did untill most of the flowers started to wilt and die which was sad.
On Friday afternoon Julia and I spent a happy ten minutes ransacking the girls' desks for abandoned flowers that were still alive, the result was the eclectic last bunch in the yellow vase.

Bellow are a few drawings and designs from the project, I loved it (though I think I was in the minority there); uneven splodges and drips of water colour and thin continuous line drawings are just my thing.

Not entirely sure where my fashion designs, developed from the flower drawings are going but they'll be floaty and layered and brightly coloured whatever the are!