A Flowery Birthday Card

 A birthday card for a friend. Stitch, water colour and ink on paper.

 The imagery was inspired from one of my favourite birthday cards.

 Text inside. I like how my wirting in stitch has taken on my hand writing.

Picture edited to illustrate how the drawing could be further developed in a more dramatic way.

Final Outcomes: Project 2

Paper art: An old book

Work from current project. Focus on exploring, journeys, diaries, maps and creatures found in Arctic setting. Stitch on an old book. Appliqué of painted news print.  

Sketchbook: Charcoal Drawings

 Few more drawings taken from Skectchbook on Drawing Project.

  

The drawings are done in charcoal with some stitch and are copies of famous photograhs taken from a book on women photographers. I was interested in age and skin. Looking a lines, creases and wrinkles in the skin. 

These are my first charcoal drawings which has lead to me using charcoal in my next sketchbook. 

Craft: Not so Christmassy Cards

 I finally got card making, as I believe it is the season for card making! My cards didn't really turn out very Christmassy though but very fiddly and little bit too much glue.

I made just four cards before I got fustrated enough to stop. The swirls were put in simple arrangements, maybe I'll try so more complicated arrangements in the future.

Sketchbook: Experiments

 

Blackberries and tea bags

Blackberries, hair and smudge marks

Shredded paper curled

Mark making with biro

 Machine stitch on tracing paper

 Eye 1 (pencil)

 Eye 2 (pencil)

Nose and mouth (pencil)

First few pages from sketchbook from Drawing Project. Mainly focused around experimenting with mark making and drawing of the face.

Craft: Swirls in a book

Craft: Paper Shoes

My paper shoes. 

Made with paper (hand dyed wallpaper), and found items, mainly old bits of jewellery, buttons and ribbons... and lots and lots of glue.

Made just for fun; it dosen't get much more impractical then paper shoes!

Wall Hanging: Autumnal bouquet

Autumn leaves gathered and displayed as wall hanging in three bunches increasing in size.  The leaves were dried before use to try to prevent mould growing. Some leaves have just been secured in bunches and others hang down on thread, some leaves have also been sewn into with thread. In the ‘bouquet’ as well as leaves there is also ribbon, pine cones and acorns.

I wanted this piece of seasonal work to have the feel of Autumn in it. The main material being used are leaves, which we see scattered everywhere over autumn. I wanted to play with the idea of gathering and haversting the autumnal objects and colours. I also wanted it to be ironic that all the things in my piece are actually dead which is the opposite to what you would normally put in a bouquet, but I still wanted it to have an element of beauty about it.