Our First Christmas Tree

This is our very small and cute first Christmas tree together. We had a lovely evening a couple of weeks ago at Ensleigh garden and leisure center picking it out. I thought that I'd put it on here one because I'm very pleased with it and two because it's nearly Christmas!

Cards

These are some simple card ideas. I was thinking about maybe trying to sell some on etsy.... not sure if they would sell or not!

Birthday Cake For Mum

It was Mum's birthday the other day and James decided to bake her a cake! It was James' idea to put her initials on top of the cake in icing sugar so he drew some lettering and I cut them out (my very small input in the whole cake process!). The only issue was the letters were a bit big for the cake (probably should have thought to measure it first!) and also the cake not being flat meant it didn't want the stencil to lie properly on it! Anyway... Mum was very happy with it and it tasted really good- well done James!

z bed

Over the last few weeks I've been working on covering an old 'z-bed' that I've had since I was younger and had been made slightly redundant because a) it was covered in winnie the pooh fabric and b) it was ripped. It's hard to get a good impression of it here as I forgot to take a 'before' photo... oops! I brought some lovely purple fabric from tavy textiles and decided to just 'go for it' (i've never attempted anything like this before!). It's not going too badly so far although it's taking rather a long time! Hopefully it will be ready for my brother in law Phil to sleep on when he comes down for new year's eve! I'll put a photo on when it's completely finished.

Another Darwin

Sorry I haven't posted anything for a little while, I've been busy with college work as well as getting the hallway ready to be plastered! I've finished the Darwin project now- I thought I'd post up one more, this one is made from polystyrene and sewing-pins. I think it's quite effective... not quite sure how it represents Darwin's personality though!

multiple darwins...

This is my reference photograph which I found here.

Embossing onto acetate.

Playing with light and shadows.

Sketching.

Stitching onto card.

Embossing onto acetate.

Cutting out of a leaf (this did not work well AT ALL!- apparently if you start cutting into a leaf it loses a lot of its structural integrity...)

Cutting out paper.

Drawing with text.

Embossing onto card.

Burning onto wood.

Using photoshop to make an image drawn from tiny ape illustrations.

Using photoshop to alter colours and repeat.

Sewing-pins onto polystyrene.

My latest college project is to work from a photograph and to produce at least 20 different illustrations from it using different techniques and materials. Our subject was chosen for us and I was given Charles Darwin! We are supposed to portray something of the subjects character/achievements or something about them through these illustrations (I have definitely not achieved this in every one!) So, for example- Darwin was a naturalist so have used natural(ish) colours, and made a picture of him from apes (evolution theory), stitched a picture of him onto a world map (supposed to be a ship's course- as he went on a 5 year voyage around the world on his ship 'the Beagle) etc etc, some links I've made are more tenuous than others!! This is a selections of some of my efforts- I'm not amazingly pleased with any of them- I probably like the one made out of pins the best though, if I had to pick one. I have to say I have not enjoyed this project at all- I dislike drawing people and have found it quite difficult to be inspired by my subject choice.

Logo Idea

This is a logo idea for me (to use on my website if I ever get around to making one!)- it needs work but thought I'd put it on here anyway.