I did lots of prints!!

So I had a go at etching and screen printing.

Nothing very planned, just playing - here are the results.

My Etching:

My Screenprints: 

Screenprint + Monoprint

Ouch . . . Papercut.

So, I was making someone a card and as I'd been looking at the work of Amy Williams (the artist not the athlete, google will confuse you) I thought I'd do a piece inspired by here beautiful papercuts.

She has said that she gets her inspiration from folklore and fairytales. As I had recently looked at one of my favourite pictures, 'Brita as Iduna' (a lithograph by Carl Larsson), I thought I would try to capture the story of Little Red Riding Hood as the girl from Larsson's picture always reminds me of Little Red.

Do a textiles project in 1 1/2 days! Ahhhh!!!

Well, I've just started my art foundation and during the introductory stage we have 2 1/2 days trying out each area of the Art Academy to get an idea what we want to specialise in.

2 1/2 days is pretty short time to fully explore a project and THEN we found out we were life drawing the first day rather than starting the first project! Pressure!!

Anyways, my first area was textiles and we had to make something in the time out of the materials available inspired by something in Cambridge - which for me was the botanical gardens.

Here I will post my inspiration and then the finished piece - a bag - which I think, for 1 1/2 days ain't bad (especially as I'm noooooo textiles expert!).

First go at life drawing!

Here's a couple of the quick sketches I did during my first life drawing session.

Continuous line drawing :

Sketch of the class: 

Stormtroopers. I like the one which bangs his head in Episode 4 :)

Requeeeesst!!!

My brief was: A stormtrooper, maybe the imperial symbol too. I like vibrant colours - especially blue.

How do you think I did??

It already up in their house so I'm guessing my effort wasn't too shabby!

I went to Spain!

I've been on holiday, yay! And I took my paints and pencils, naturally. So, here's a couple of the quick paintings I did while I was there of things I saw.

The first is fairly obvious what it is and how it relates to Spain:

The second, is what the many old spanish men looked like to me as they sat around having a bake in the sun; seemingly indefinitely. 

Going back to my finger painting roots.

At a bit of loose end today so thought I'd have a childish art moment and finger paint!

Here's my favourite of the few quick ones I did which kind of evolved into a face.