Artists: Lana Del Rey, Flowers in Your Hair

 When I was expreimenting with flowers, I kept thinking of Lana Del Rey. A quick google search showed why I associated her with real flowers.

 A controversial icon being talked about for loads of reason(plastic surgery, bad performances, millionaire dad, newly signed model etcc..),but all that drama aside, I think these flower pieces are beautiful. 

 I have tried to find out who made these pieces but everyone seems more interested in other things conntected to her at the moment from what I could find.

The images highlight the beauty of working with real flowers.

 

  There is something timeless about girls wearing flowers in their hair. 

  

 The images encourage me to keep working with real flower material, despite it sometimes challenging nature.

 "If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair"

Scott McKenzie
San Francisco

Jewellery: Rose Petals

I've started to play around with jewellery and rose petals. These are all earings.

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: Squash Lanterns

 Scope the middle out, cut your design add a tea light and you have yourself a squash lantern. Prefect for decorating the garden for Guy Fawkes. 

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.