Vimeo

Here is the link to my First Vimeo Movie:

https://vimeo.com/114015851

Layered Drawing

A layered drawing made by taking 2 minuets to draw each layer, building up different scenes on top of each other. I used different mediums to draw with, tissue paper, ink and acetate to create different textures.
Dimensions: W60cm X H84cm

Acrylic Transfers

I made this work by doing acrylic paint transfers using photographs I took while looking at graffiti in and around the Stokes Croft area of Bristol. This rather unpredictable process can produce some really interesting results.
Dimensions: W20cm X H30cm

Life Drawing Triptych

This triptych of drawings work well together. The one in the middle is a charcoal life drawing. This is a particularly meaningful and strong piece of work because it has Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I had a dream’ speech projected on to the models body, creating both a black and a white figure within the same frame. I also like how the typography becomes distorted as it is projected onto the curves of the human figure. In contrast the other two drawings are light in colour. Using a combination of mediums such as watered down ink and tissue while a stick dipped in to ink creates the bolder lines.
Dimensions: W40cm X H60cm (Left and Right) W60cm X H84cm (Centre) 

Zine

     

This is an outcome from my sketchbook. I was given a brief to design and produce a ‘Zine’ that was a personal illustration of myself. It had to be in limited pallet and could only be eight pages long. This has been the best project so far on my foundation course and really showed me that I am a natural designer.
Dimensions: W15cm X H21cm (folded size)

Graphic Design Sketchbook

Graphic Design is a relatively newfound love of mine, which I have discovered during my art foundation course. These are some pages from my Graphic Design sketchbook. I think it provides a good illustration of me as a person and how I like to work. Ideas are carefully laid out, showing thumbnails of design processes and also me designing, or creating my own typography from researched influences. This is one of my favourite sketchbooks showing the natural development of design stages and my strong creative sensibilities. 
Dimensions: W20cm X H30cm

Inverted Photogram

  

I made this photogram in the dark room. I used a pipette of solution and squeezed it over the light sensitive paper. I had no idea this would create such an amazing image. I then scanned the photogram into my computer, inverted it in Photoshop and added some blue colour to it. I think this could be a really successful background for advertising if it had some hand rendered typography layered over the top of it.
Dimensions: W20cm X H30cm

High-Speed Photography

I recently refreshed myself on high-speed photography, a great skill to have. These images are taken with this photographic technique. I asked my friend to blow flour into the air, whilst I tried to capture a perfect image. I love the simplicity of these photographs and the hit of white against the black studio backdrop. Using high-speed photography really captured a fragment, a fleeting moment in time. I will explore this in more depth in the future.

Life Drawing

This is one of my favourite life drawings, taken from a forty-minute pose, which seemed like a really long time, but in fact it flew by. We shone a light onto the model’s body, to emphasise the lighter areas and also where the natural shadows fell. I think this drawing is quite playful and is visually bold. 
Dimensions: W40cm X H60cm

Life Drawing

 

A great quick fire warm up activity producing a fun, loose, free, layered drawing.
Dimensions: W40cm X H60cm

Shadow Folds

I hand sewed and created these shadow folds and photographed them on the light box to show their true beauty. I was looking at pleats, tucks and folds and came across shadow folds. They have a lovely simplistic look to them which is why I though they would photograph well on a light box.

Penzance Trip

   

My favourite pages of a sketchbook filled during a weeklong trip to Penzance with Weston College. We visited the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Tate St Ives. I used a variety of materials including, water colours, pencils, oil pastels, ink brush pen and found bits and pieces. It was really great to be able to completely fill a sketchbook in such a short amount of time resulting in such a verity of work.

Resin Bottles

The final outcome to a piece of work titled ‘discarded’. I photographed derelict buildings, places and things, printed them on to clear acetate and then burned them so they created unique forms. The plastic bottles were picked up from Bristol  Scrapstore. I cut them in half, filled them with clear resin and placed the acetate images into the resin. When they were set I took a studio shoot of them. The colours and shadows created are simply beautiful. I and have had much interest in the final installation.
Dimensions: W30cm X H40cm

Work Space

    

My workspace during a screen-printing module. I loved being able to design my own image, which could then be exposed onto a screen and translated on to any surface I desired. This is a great technique to know and something I definitely want to use more of in Graphic Design.

Free Stitch

I designed this sample textile piece using a combination of free embroidery layered with strong Brusho colour pigment underneath to make a background. This sample was made when looking at surface and interior design. I was constantly thinking and designing new ideas, this is fundamental when studying Graphic Design. One has to constantly have an open and creative mind, willing to try new processes or techniques.

Mixed Media Triptych

Here are three separate pieces of work that I think work really together. In the first I used mixed media e.g. black ink, Brush with hand rendered lines. I was looking at strong lines when creating this piece and also looking at design.

The next image is an example of a piece I designed and screen-printed onto fabric. This was a sample piece, which ended up as wallpaper.

The final image is a 3D ceramic piece I created out of porcelain. The project brief was ‘wrapping, binding and knotting’ I think the outcome was really successful and loved using a different medium (ceramics) in my work.
Dimensions: W30cm X H40cm (top and middle images) W50cm X H20cm (bottom image)

Projectons

I was looking at the word ‘discarded’. I decided to look at recycling, and items that people didn’t want anymore and that had been set aside or thrown away. I used a photograph of a wall that I had taken that had been discarded and unkempt, and then projected it on to the wall in the photo studio. I loved how the shadows formed, and also the random rainbows that appear on the floor. This was purely experimental work that turned out to be quite a successful piece of work.

Sketchbook Work

A snap shot of my sketchbook pages showing an exploration of Photogram images, using different exposure times, which immediately set the stronger images apart. I really enjoy using the dark room, and think that it provides many interesting possibilities. 

Photogram With Acrylic Paint Overlay

Creating a photogram is a brilliant way using a photographic image. I was looking at the work of fashion photographer Nick Knight, and was intrigued by the way he blurs his images. Seeing an exhibition of his work at Somerset House inspired me to make this piece of work.
Dimensions: W20cm X H30cm