Christmas Card prep

Every year I buy a stash of cards to send because I don't have time to make my own. Well this year I'm determined to make my own!

Here are some of them in the experimental stage. I've made an Intaglio plate of the robin and printed it through the press. 

Here in experimenting with te addition if different watercolour experiments. I'll post te finished things...if I'm happy with them! X

Mixed media

Been up to all sorts at the start of term. 

I have a new Year 10 GCSE Art group and we've been going back to basics looking at line and tone. 

Tomorrow they're going to attempt this mixed media piece.

New Prints

I've been staring at the walls in my living room for the last couple of months and thinking that the artwork doesn't go with the colour on the wall. So I spent most of Sunday morning in my pyjamas in the spare room creating these. I think I'm at my best when I just get on with artwork when I feel like it, rather than set aside time. 

These are now hanging on my living room wall and make much more sense that the last lot! I just need to remember to sign them!

Screen Print designs

I want to set up Screen Printing at work so that the students can generate some exciting design ideas and experimentation, however it's a massive process as there's lots of stuff to sort through. But I've been starting to think about my own little projects that I would like to do once it's up and running.

Taking my inspiration from the bouncing nearly 10 month old Bella, I've done some sketches and adapted them on Illustrator to give them a screen print look. I'm keen on using fabric to add texture to my work so would love for these to be printed onto simple calico and stitched back into.

Sparrows and Circles

Here is a little sparrow sketch that I did a long time ago. Having had a browse on Etsy and Folksy for some inspiration to fill some new photo frames in my living room I decided to revisit some of my old sketchbooks and stumbled across this.
It's been a long time since I spent time playing around with illustrator and having some screen printing ideas in mind I started having a play. For some reason I tend to favour using circles in my work so there seems to be a theme here.