Berries!

Here I have experimented with berries, I have done this so that I could really get a feel for the items, I wanted to try using a variety of different texture and simple minimalistic shapes to see what worked best, but again the most successful piece in my eyes in the potato print with the […]

Playing around with hand lettering!

Here I have tried to experiment with watercolour, in the multi-coloured piece I dropped the colour into the water and I think it worked lovely I am really liking how the colours all blend together will to me such beautiful artwork, yet overall I am not immensely keen on the watercolour look at a whole […]

Monoprinting!

So today I wanted to do some monprinting and decided to have a go at the Fungi ( I do realise that it is all fungi at the moment) I am happy with how they look the only negative element is that the monoprinting is of course in black and white which goes against all […]

Meeting with DKP

Today we had a meeting with Karin from ” De Koffee Pot” to talk about our idea for the menu and logo in order to help us to progress in the design for her. Whilst talking to Karin I mentioned the use of monoprinting which although she liked she wasn’t overly to keen to go […]

Block colours!

In this project I aim to look perhaps more at shape, texture and most importantly colour instead of detail, this is because I want to try out the minimalistic style. So here are some minimalistic leaves made in watercolour!

Leaves!

Being it being Autumn, whilst in the woodlands I realised that there were leaves everywhere and they were all such beautiful colours, orange, red, yellows, green etc. This is why I decided that I really wanted to include colour in to my work and wanted to move away from the black and white element that […]

Prints, prints, prints!

At this point I am not 100% sold of where I am heading next in my project so I have decided to make some Fungi whilst trying to figure this out, I didn’t have any printing equipment close at hand so I Have improvised and I have decided to try using a potato to print, and […]

Woodland Trip

Today I have been really busy and researched many woods around the Brecon area and then went and visited the one that I felt would be most beneficial at this point. Although I do intend to visit many more throughout the project. I have been onto the woodlands trust website and have found out that […]

Drawing Fungi in the woods!

Today I went out exploring the woods of Cwm Godi in Brecon, Along with taking many photographs I also did some observational drawings, and luckily enough was a huge assortment of fungi scattered all around the woods. It its being I was emerged amongst so much fungi that I decided that I wanted to draw […]

The Sketchbook Project

For my second project of this semester I have decided that I would like to take part in the sketchbook project brief. This is to fill a sketchbook which is to be the size 5″ by 7″ and to be no thicker than an inch. There are many starting points but the one I wish […]