Christmas Cards

Attempts at illustrationy christmas cards.  With lots of holly.

Layers Sketchbook

A few pages from our most recent sketchbook project called  'layers'.

Leaf Skeleton

Elective project week, helping us decide between two specialties for out final pathway.   This is my work from the 3D elective pathway.  Our brief was 'natural forms' inspired, I was interested in leaf skeletons and human skeletons, so decided to create something with a mixture of the two. A literal leaf skeleton!  The bones are made from delicate air-dry clay and painted with acrylic, strung together with copper wire.

Pistachios

A necklace I made in the first 3D week long project.  Our brief was to make a piece of jewellery out of scrap or recycled materials.  I had a cupboard full of pistachio nuts, and always thought the shells were such a waste, so they were the ideal media this week :) Dyed blue with brusho and stuck onto cardboard packaging using a glue gun.

mini projects

A1 sheets from the day long drawing project we did in the first few weeks of the course.  Done using a variety of materials such as biro, pencil, ink, wax crayons and colour pencils.

 Photographs for a visual communication project. We had to fill in the statement 'my name is....and I...'. I decided to go with 'My name is Holly and when I was younger the fairies wrote me letters'. The child drawn in white is meant to show the girl as her younger self, reading a letter. It was drawn on using a graphics tablet linked to photoshop. The final photo is one of the final worked over photos.

Jar

Photograph of the jar of objects I used to create abstracted paintings from.

Painting towards abstraction

First week of elective projects, I chose a Fine Art brief on painting.  It's so different from the style that I normally paint in, so I was doubtful that I'd get into to the swing of things, but I actually found that it was quite fun.  These are painted from looking at a glass jar full of random objects, like material, a bracelet, shells, etc.  The idea was to focus on colour and shape, and become more abstract with each study.  Our initial studies were drawn by looking at the jar, then the next set of development paintings were done from just looking at the studies.
(Oil on paper and wood)