Drawing Workshop

we had a drawing workshop with Martin, and he made us draw on larger scales and with different materials. I hadn't really used oil pastels or chalk pastels before but decided to give them a go. I really enjoyed the workshop as I loved working on a larger scale and just going for it. I didnt really mind if my drawings didnt work out and just enjoyed the drawing process, I feel this worked out really well as the pieces didnt turn out too bad.
each of these drawings are with a diffenrent material, they are in chalk pastel, oil pastel, bleach, and paint.

mAgGi HaMbLiNg

I was trying to work out a context for this project and watched this program called 'art of the sea' to see if it inspired me. Unfortunetly it didnt inspire me on the context side of things but introduced me to some fanastic artists. One in particular being Maggi Hambling. Her work is so expressive and exciting, I love it. I could go on bout it more, but really it speaks for itself :)

So heres my final and favourite project of first year. It was a 'self directed' project so we got to choose what we did and manage our projects completely by ourselfs. I chose to do 'the Beach' as I absolutely love everything about it. The way a footprint is left by a stranger; the way waves come crashing down; the sounds of the water, people and air around me; the smell of the sea air - i cant imagine life without the beach.
my initial research was done on the beach, doing quick drawings, and taking far too many photos :P ! i focused on the movement of the waves, and the textures and colours which are the beach.

Stripes and Checks

Our 2nd project was 'Stripes and Checks' with the theme of 'Intergalactic'.
This project was pretty difficult - at least on the drawing side of things ... my student loan doesn't quite cover a trip into space! but I managed to look at it from the wonderful planet that is earth and these amazing things called books. Not only were we to draw Intergalactic, but we were learning to weave on the looms, which I LOVE!!! ahh the looms are so exciting I love being on them and producing exciting patterns and textures :)! we also had to 'upcycle' which meant using all these household objects, I ended up using quite a bit of tin foil, the different look and feel of each side was fun to play with.
I also love buttons, big ones, small ones, sqaure, round , colourful, plain, ee so many types to choose from :) , so I used some buttons for my piece as well.

Structures

As I've said I am a first year art student at NUCA (Norwich University College of the Arts), and our first project (techically 2nd but I wasn't a fan of the first) was on Structures.
I looked at the structure of clocks and the cogs/ mechanisms in them. This then developed onto Alice in Wonderland and I produced a final piece of a finger knitted waistcoat -- like the white rabbit, and a pleated paper skirt. At the end of the project we got to do a photoshoot of our pieces so heres mine :)

A-level work

So here are some pages of my portfolio. The first 3 images are of my 'Urban Patterns' project in which I made a jacket covered in cones, zebra crossings, a map or two and pavements. It was pretty hard at the start but I was happy with it by the end.
The other 4 are of my 'Mussels' project which I loved. I love the clusteral looks and feel. Weirdly this project started as Alice in Wonderland, but I think I had too many ideas and couldnt concentrate on it very well so I developed it into Clusters then Mussels.

Hello World!

Ahh so here is my very first blog :o , you'll have to bare with me as I get the hang of this thing :P !
here goes..........