Hot Air Balloon

This was part of a group project at college to create a poster on an assigned section of the college handbook. Our group was given appeals and we used a hot air balloon to symbolise your appeal 'taking off' with weights hanging off it that would hold your appeal back. My job was to make the hot air balloon which I did using cut out paper and stitching. I have also made it into a repeating pattern. Mainly just because I like repeating pattern! Not sure what I think about the clouds though. It looked a bit plain without them but maybe they need to be more ordered rather than random....

Poppy

This year I have seen several people on T.V with sparkly poppies- at first I couldn't decide what I thought about this- good idea or disrespectful? After quite a lot of thought I've decided that decorating my poppy is respectful in my own way- illustrating/making/decorating things is what I do and I think it's nice to be able to do it to draw attention to a good cause.
I've just been doing some research into these 'sparkly poppies' click here to read more.

Camper Van Pattern

I made this a while ago as a present for a friend who really likes camper vans!

Me, Myself and I Posters

So... this time last year we did a massive module for college entitled 'me, myself and I' one tiny bit of this module was to produce 3 A3 posters depicting ourselves. I went for the idea of doing 3 different 'sides' of me- each has a 'side view' of me (which incidentally was one of the first vector images I ever managed to make- I am rubbish at using illustrator!! so I was pretty pleased with that even if it did take me a ridiculously long time.... all good practice I suppose) The three themes were arty/student me, ill (m.e) me and 'grown up'/responsible me (ha ha). I don't know if you will be able to see them that well on the blog as they are supposed to be A3 but each one has little illustrations and text which illustrate my three 'sides'. Not my favourite pieces of work but I thought I'd post them up for you to look at all the same!

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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Our Etched Kitchen Tiles

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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