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Monday, 8 November 2010

Time Line- Close Up

My brother in law requested that I put up a post with 'close up' pictures of my concertina book/ timeline- (see earlier post) so, here they are!

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Card making with Emma and Helen

My sister and her boyfriend got engaged recently and the girls that I child mind sometimes wanted to make them a card- this was our result! (Quite restrained for us really, we usually end up making something with lots of glitter and glue and making a lot of mess!)

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These are the tiles that we are now using on our kitchen walls. I had to do a project at college on print processes- part of which involved using laser cutting. I decided to do some simple illustrations of kitchens gadgets/utensils and to etch them onto ceramic tiles using the laser cutter at college. I'm quite happy with the results although they do tend to get dirty quite easily- I wonder if there is some sort of varnish? I could maybe use to fill the etched section...

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Thursday, 28 October 2010

Work Experience With Rob Ryan October 2010

On Friday 15th October I went for a days work experience at Rob Ryan's studio in London. I had a really great day. I spent the morning helping out to print some posters for Rob's upcoming exhibitions next month and I spent the afternoon helping on one of his latest paper cut outs. Everyone was really friendly and the atmosphere in the studio was really great. I am hoping to go back there to do some more work experience in the not too distant future.

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Trees painted on my wall

I got some really nice little bird hooks for our house and decided that I would paint some trees on the wall for them to go on! Sorry the photos aren't fantastic the light is really terrible in that room.

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More garden creatures

Here are some more interesting creatures that I found in our garden. The hornet is unfortunately dead I think (otherwise I probably wouldn't be so close!) but I think that it's beautiful all the same.