Happy New Year!

So again, over the holiday period I have been useless with updating my blog! But it is a New Year and a fresh start :) , so I will begin my blog in 2012 with some photos from the shoot I did in December.
Having handed in last term and feeling a little lost until results came back, I organised a photo shoot in the woods. Making 6 sets of wings from various materials and using different techniques, my wonderful friends braved the cold at 8am on a Sunday morning. I am so happy with how these photos turned out and enjoyed experimenting with how to portray wings in different ways.
I took most of the photos myself but one my models is a photography student and took some for his portfolio too. The black and white photo from this selection was taken by Mabon Llyr - check out his website http://www.mabonllyr.com/

22.11.11.....

Trying to decide on 'patterns' for our 8 samples we are doing for Indigo, Première Vision, I realised I didn't pop up some of my drawings from our workshop with Les and Martyn. I loved the workshop, we had to bring in a 3x3x3cm object and did lots of exercises such as drawing with both hands crossed over, with our opposite hand, without the object in front of us etc! Admittedly I kind of prefer my drawings with my left hand, as they were much more free. Anyhoo, here are a few of my drawings ...

The one on the orange background almost looks like a persons legs...?

Laser Cutting ...

This morning was my first time on the laser cutter completely on my own (scary thought I know) but I'm quite pleased with how my samples worked out

Fly away ...

So I happened to have some wings hanging around, and my life drawings just staring at me ... this is what happened ...

Life Drawing 2.11.11

Second proper life drawing class today - so gutted its not more often, but we had a lovely female model today.

2 birds, one stone ...

On my walk into uni today I came across 2 dead birds -- one fully feathered and the other a carcass. (I would just like to point out I did NOT kill them myself!) Anyway, I have been examining the wings and how they move. The colours in the birds are lovely -- when up close you can really see the green/pink/blue that runs through the feathers! I am so interested in the layers of the feathers especially in the wings -- how it is constructed is so interesting!

Life Drawing

Some of my drawings for Life Drawing earlier this week - it is so nice to get back into it again - I haven't done proper life drawing since school and I have really missed it.