coming to the end of the year.

so i'm on my last brief of the year: the live brief and i am really enjoying it and i have loved seeing the work of the designer kate usher. its also coming to end of the module ppd ( professional and personal development) a series of online lessons designed to help you plan your study time and make action plans to achieve your goals on this course. the lessons may have taken some time and taken a lot of writing but i can say they have helped me learn how to set time aside for college work. i've even been writing my own action plans to keep me on track. the only thing is i can't wait to start all over again next year.

edinburgh

so last week i visited edinburgh. i had all the intention of taking beautiful photographs at princes street gardens of the lovely plants and flowers, but they are currently relaying the grass and so there wasn't many to photograph. i did however find these lovely florals at the zoo and i am really looking forward to drawing them

pattern creating

so i've started putting my designs into photo shop now and i've been playing around trying to create patterns and i love this one. using a drawing of a crysanthemum i have altered the colour, and layered the design on top of eachother lots of times to create this. i think it fits my theme nicely and i love the vibrant red colour.

drawing water lillys

to fit in with the oriental theme i had in mind, i've drawn, painted and used pastel to re create a photograph of a water lilly that i had taken. i even used pastel on gold paper as i thought it might be nice to use metallics in this brief especially seeing as i have chosen a bar/ hotel environment, i believe they would fit in very nicely.

water colour

so i used water colours this week; i was feeling inspiration from the liberty designs i had looked at in my research. i used a subtle colour palette and quite a loose brush stroke to create this design from a photograph i had taken.

using masking fluid to draw with

so using masking fluid i marked out some floral designs on paper. i waited for these to dry before adding gradients of water colour paint over the top. i waited for the paint to dry before peeling the dried masking fluid away. i am very happy with the results; its just different to see a white design and coloured background rather than the usual. i really love the colours i have chosen too. i feel that maybe i might go towards an oriental style with my work.

playing with promarkers again

i've decided to get out my promarkers again for theis brief and i love them just as much as before. they blend so nicely and i love the bright colours. i worked with some of my own imagery to create these drawings. i used a fine liner over the top to create more detail, but i am looking forward to using them in pattern creating.