bits and bobs

Second task of the day was to draw sewing objects and materials for the create place flyers and website. Apologies for the unscanned photo images.

family festival poster

This week at the create place I had to make a image for the family festival event coming up. My task was to create a fun image to relate to the dance, art, music, festival activites for 0-16 ages . I was asked specifically to include a bear and a frog. I worked from imagination and enjoyed painting the image I need to try this more often as its very difficult working on the spot with no image reference but its good fun and great practise.

home grown shop

Pictures from the day 12th June. We had a very successful day, made £440! Almost broke even, we spent £500 as a group so we did well to sell so much for the day. We are hoping to make a online shop with the remainding products.

http://homegrownshop.tumblr.com/

tropical fruits

Here are some watercolour/ink paintings of tropical fruits that I will use for front and back covers of a photoalbum that we will sell in our shop on 12th JUNE 65 HANBURY STREET.

Photoalbum pears

poultry litho print

Red Cabbage

Working on prints for the shop project. I've done a two colour litho print of a red cabbage, the alignment didn't work as well as I'd hope but its been a great experiment working with lithography.

Will be selling the prints or at least have them for decoration in the shop we're doing. 12th June Hanbury Street. Put it in your diary.

Aquatint and sugar lift etchings

I have used a new process of etching this week, using aquatint and sugar lift which acts as a type of paint mixture so its similar to my lithography as I've painted on the image and worked with texture. These two prints are for my shop group project, we are doing a food market themed shop where we are rennovating a gallery space for a day and turning into market stores selling home ware products that look like traditional market foods. I've made these prints to hang up by the stalls.
The top print is of a close up look of a green cabbage, and the red print is of salami.

A sea shore

I entered a competition at the beggining of the year for a children's book based on the north west coast and this is one of the images I entered of a sea shore. I really love this as its a very playful way of using inks and watercolour washes, textured with no line.

lithography

Here is my first lithograph print from the workshops I've been doing at camberwell. Its a really enjoyable process, takes a lot of patience and remembering all the steps but its very worth it. This is from a photo I took in Freshford countryside. I used crayon, oils and anything greasy to draw on the plate to produce this image.

Showing at Fact and Fiction 3 at the Amersham Arms New Cross in the upstairs gallery space tonight 21st May 6-9.

mcmillan childrens book competition