Sixties Pattern

This is a pattern that I did back during foundation year that I found recently and made into a colourful magnet :-) The pattern isn't fantastic quality but it's worked quite well on the magnet which is now sitting happily on my magnetic board in my art room!

Monster Plants 2

This is the second lot of 'paper cut' developments for my 'monster plants' task. Finished results to finish soon!

Monster Plants 1

So these are the first lots of developments from my eden project work.

Paul The Octopus- final design. Take Two!

So we had a group tutorial about our animal editorial designs and we came to the conclusion that mine would work better with a 'night time' back drop- the idea would be to make it more 'atmospheric'. There was talk of doing it digitally but I don't have an A3 scanner (or printer come to that matter) and seeming as I'm not great with all things digital I would probably make it worse rather than improving it! Anyway... a days work later and here is the final, final design! I think it definitely has improved it by re-doing the background so I guess that it was worth all the work.

I have a lovely husband :-)

This one is a little bit of a random (and a little sickening perhaps too?) post. James went through a short phase of making my food/drink look pretty :-)

Eden Project Trip

the eden project...

me drawing at the eden project!




lots of tiny ants!



snow outside the eden project






We went on a college trip to the Eden project back in December. It was a very surreal day with snow still on the ground outside and temperatures of 30 degrees in the tropics dome!! Our initial brief was to do 6 A4 pages of drawings of plants from the Eden project. This was a pretty massive task to do in such a short space of time- I'm not particularly confident in my drawing and to produce something that I'm pleased with usually takes me hours (for just one drawing!). Anyway I gave it my best shot and the results are above- I'm not particularly pleased with any of them but I guess that it's all good practice. We now have to develop these drawings into 'monster plants' more about this to follow in a later post!