I'm currently doing print in university, (I love print so much) we had to create our own stencils and these are the ones I created. We had to make up an imaginary journey and mine was the path to happiness by following a ball of string. I want to create something like a fairy tale, so I put me in an old fashioned dress. I really love the trees I drew, I was helped by my little kitty who was playing with pen while I was drawing.

I created some mono prints the other day, which turned out really good. Really messy, which I love. When I get a chance I will take photos and post them on here later. 

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Quentin Blake's life drawing.

 

I found an artist the other day called Georg Baselitz, who's work looks very similar to Quentin Blake's illustrations. So I searched for his wonderful art in some of my most favorite books by Roald Dahl, like The Enormous Crocodile and Fantastic Mr Fox. When I came across this nude image of a lady by Quentin Blake. Well I was shocked to see such a well known children's illustrator drawing something so grown up. It's really funny more then anything else.

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I got this image from: http://www.dezeen.com

Old photography.

I was looking through all my old photos and I found loads of images I took for my photography night classes, taken about two years ago. I actually think a lot of my old photography is good, I went to Bristol zoo and normally I hate going to zoos because the animals looks so sad but I came across these sleeping tigers and they looked so peaceful. I've loved my tiger photos for ages, in fact this photo is my background on my Mac.



I think this image only came out so good because the glass was dirty, I really like how retro it looks. You actually have to get apps on your phone to get effects like this now.

I also set up a little photo shoot with my sisters as the models, I dressed them up (as best I can) as punks and set up a little tea party. My littlest sister, Betsy loved dressing up and posing but Jetta wasn't to happy. I don't blame her I would hate to be a model too. I love little Betsy holding her tea pot up like a soldier.

I love this image of Betsy with the huge heels and looking so sweet with her crazy hair and probably my own knee length socks. The lighting in this shoot is beautiful and I love this angle. I need to start doing photography like this again, I think over the years I've lost the nack and need to get it back.


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All images taken by me, Please ask to use them. My Flickr

Patchwork jacket and Print dress.

I'm very please with my final outcome, and I finished very early. The project has to be given in tomorrow and all I have to do know is get my boards and these photos printed out. I'm feeling very confident about this project.

A few things went wrong on the day of the photoshoot, I wanted to take some images out side but thanks to the unpredictable British weather, it started to rain. But I had a plane, we went to The Arts Institute. And my model was amazing, she came to the rescue when my friend canceled and she just looks amazing in my outfit. 

I will be posting up my boards as soon as I know they are perfect. 

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all clothing made by me, model Kelsey Brown 

layering images

With my photography I wanted to do something fun with them so I decided to layer them just because I hadn't done it before.

The first two images are very old photos which were saved after my old computer went mental and deleted all my images. I did a photo shoot with my baby sister and I dressed her up as a punk (as she put it), I loved the outcome the lighting in the shoot was beautiful, but a lot of the photos are now gone. the last two photos are very recent.
 

I really like this effect, especially the first image. I love the detail and greenness of my sisters eye and the pink and simpleness of the follow.  I also love the last image, to me it looks like the flower is very unstable and it's about to fall over. ha.

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How to make patch work

Yes, I've made my mind up I'm going to make patch work garments as well as print. Because I just made a few samples for my sketch book and I enjoyed it so much. It took me 4 hours because they were so small and fiddly but I felt like 40 minutes because I had so much fun.

 First you've got to cut out any shape you want to any size you want the patch work to be out of scrap paper. Take your shape and trace around the it, add a cm all the way round to create a seam allowance, this will be the pattern you use to cut the fabric with.

you will need to cut much more of the smaller pieces because they need to be stuck in side the fabric until your ready to take them out.

 

Place the small bit of paper on top of the fabric and fold the 1cm seam allowance over the paper and stitch in place. don't worry about how neat it is because this stitching will be taken out. 

each triangle was 4cms along the longest side, so they were very small. obviously the bigger the shapes the easier it is. 

 

once you have the little shapes are done, its very easy to just stitch the pieces together in what ever pattern you want. insure you use very small stitches to make it neat as possible. the edges of mine look very messy but that will go once I've stitched more triangles around it. Once your shape is completely surrounded by other shapes, that's when you unpick the ruff stitch and take out the little papers.  

I was thinking about making my own patch work quilt over the summer so maybe this will be great patch work for me. Patch work is very easy, but how creative and wild you are with it the better it will look. Just look at Lu Flux as inspiration.

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Patch work

Looking at Spring/Summer 2012 trends for uni, I found a lot of patch work details on WGSN which reminded me of my final major project for college. I did amazing patch work inspired by my grandma bug's (kate cox) patchwork, she is well known in American for her work. My patch work was very expensive because it was make from 100% silk and I needed a LOT of it to make a tiny bit of fabric, but it was so much fun and looked amazing.

I loved doing it so much, I would love to do it again. So I'm thinking about making it again for the project I'm currently doing.

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Images at bottom of the post is from wgsn.com

Images at the top of the post are images from my patchwork jacket.