Celllllllebrate good times COME ON! I have finished (pretty much) my first mask which is Evie's mask and I love it it matches her style so well! Here is it...

And my modroc mask that I have been meaning to do for WEEKS!

And now the scarves! Only 5 of them though and awful pictures :S 

couldn't figure out how to rotate those two ! they were fine on my memory stick.. 

PRINTING TIME!

I am on the verge of printing - YAY! and also not yay because I have to do it all in one week......


But anyway I have started designing my final 6 scarves (only one more left to design woo), and they are each based around a girl in my class and are meant to project their personality/likes/interests.  So here are my designs that I did quickly on Photoshop! 

Oranges and lemons for Holly

Galaxy print for Jazzy (not silk screen - just lots of dye flicking and glitter)

Lace print for Flo!

Lily print for Ellie!

Ellie's other design that I'm not using but quite like anyway :)

And Lauren's print that I'm not sure about yet - might just use birds. 

So yeah that's what I've been doing, can't wait to finally print/make them! After this is all done I am going to feel SLIGHTLY less pressure as it's something out of the way and I can get on with making my masks. YES MASKS! eek! Anyway  - I need to go and do some ironing (not the de-creasing type, the iron on transfer type, wouldn't catch me ironing in a million years!!) so I'll hop off. 

Enjoy

Sketchbook workings...for once!

Getting well and truly stuck in to our Final Major Project now (basically the most important, scariest, stressful thing we will ever have to do at college!) and I have actually cracked right on and done quite a fair bit in my sketchbook!


To quickly explain I am modernizing the story of an old fairytale called The Twelve Dancing Princesses (maybe you've heard of it!?) Anyway I am using a version of it I actually own for inspiration which is full of 18th century style dresses and fashion within the illustrations. For my final outcomes I plan to make 6 masquerade style masks and 6 silk scarves (the kind of things I reckonsss an 18th century princess might have used). I am going to base each outcome on 12 girls that I know, by gathering information on them in a short survey I wrote. I have then created "profiles" in my book as a reference to the type of person they have and what they are interested in.  My final "show space" is going to be like some of the locations mentioned in the book....silver, gold and diamond forests. :) 


So here's a few pages of what I've done so far!

Marie Antoinette/Kirsten Dunst (excuse my rubbish webcam photos)

 Keira Knightly in The Duchess

 Me peering down at some artist research and responses

 And one of my "profile pages" (no, not like facebook!)

Anyway there will be more to come once I started on some drawing and pattern designing for my silk scarfs, which I will be starting from tomorrow onwards. How exciting ;)

Enjoy

Holycombe Steam Fair

FINALLY have my photos from the "Brighton" project. My first set of photos in the white space in our class didn't turn out so good and looked a little grubby, so on Saturday I went to this Steam Fair near Liphook, which I've been going to since I was about 5 which was nice to visit again :) And the guy who works there opened up especially for me and had gotten up early so he could take the rain cover off the "roundabout" for me, cute! 


So here are the best photos :) 

So yeah, that was my FUN PACKED weekend.

Knuckle Down

Right so this is my first day of doing art for 3 days as I've been busy busy for 3 days over Easter! (Happy birthday mummy and Rach!!)


I've been looking at people like Jennifer Collier (who makes beautiful shoes and clothes out of books and maps), Marie Antoinette; just about to watch the film! And lots of other bits and bobs. 
More importantly....went to London on Wednesday with Evie and we were there for about 10 FRICKIN HOURS!!!! Yeah, suck that! We went to the V&A but the fashion is STILL closed, but opens in May ( fat lot of good it'll be then), but we had a look round anyway at the jewellery and the theatre and performance section (which helped a lot with dresses and illustrations). We went to the Museum of London as well and walked through the "expanding city" walk, which went from the 1700s to the present day so there were lots of useful references there. And best of all I went to the Pleasure Gardens which were full off gorgeous pastel 18th century gowns, fans and masks! And I got some sneaky pictures little did the guard know. It was a small exhibit but useful! 
Plus we found the mayors carriage, which was a plus as I didn't know it was there. Not 18th century but still princessy-esque!!
And for my friend Evie's project we went to whitechapel and the hunterian museum which was GRIM but so interesting, I do think that the surgeon who collected all the specimins was a little disturbed though. He had babies in jars, that's just not right is it?!

 evie getting in the way as usual!

Right, now off to watch some Marie Antoinette!

x

Messy messy paint

Adding yet another layer of paint onto my chair, and ALSO my TABLE! Well it's hardly a table..it's a coffee table! But I got it for a fiver from the same place as my chair as the leg fell off whilst I was stood at the till, what a coinkidink :)  Thought it would make my space more full and also just back up my red colour scheme and brighten it up even more! 


And now...enjoy a photo of me being silly.

x

Carousel carousel

So the past few weeks I have been very busy with our Brighton Project, which I decided to base around the Carousel on the pier, and have been looking at different aspects of the carousel such as the lighting, fonts, music and horses. After lots of deliberation I went with looking further into the font! 
The idea is that by the end of the project we will be able to fill a white "space" that has been created in our college, by re-designing a chair, piece of lighting and some form of wall art. I am yet to come up with any wall art but I am going to make "lightbulb fairylights" which I am ordering in a see-through yellow colour, like the ones you find on carousels, then  turning them into a chain of lights! Cute I thought! more photos to come. 


As for my chair I came up with this... 

I then went on to buy a chair from the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice charity warehouse that specialises in furniture, it was only a fiver! BARGAIN !!

So I painted my chair in "red stallion" (good old dulux) after a lot of sanding and primer. And printed the carousel design on some lovely ochre fabric and covered my chair.

Here is the chair before...

And after.... :)

I have to say, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out! I'd love to make some  more chairs!

Enjoy.