New Ideas...

Yippeee Year One MA - TICK :) fingers crossed for the results ...but there's no stopping now....

Needless to say Badger and his ears feature prominently in my new ideas and sketches.

A to Z boatimification

I finally finished my a -z of boats. After loads of research I have a full alphabetical list. I only did 2 colour screens for 2 reasons really - 1. to save time (deadlines are approaching) 2. I wanted a silhouette look for the images so the first colour is quite dark with the line on top.

After Pam's advice I used my dip pen on the screen and cringed every time it scratched across the surface but it worked really well and I got the really narrow line I needed.

I drew the boats from images - mainly google images some from photos - from the screen into my sketch book or on paper and I then re sized my drawings using the photocopier and then traced over these using a narrow drawing pen. Once I'd done that I copied them again and adjust the sizes again and stuck them all onto a A2 sheet ready for me to copy onto the screen.

All in all I'm quite pleased with the results but do now wish I'd tried a lighter colour for the first colour as well as the blue and turquoise.

I'm not quite sure what to do with it now - to leave it and submit it as is or whether to scan the images and create a little Alphabet book from it - all suggestions welcome!

Right now to write this assignment..........

For those that don't want to work it out...

a - airboat

b - barge

c - catamaran

d - dinghy

e - express cruiser

f - felucca

g - gondola

h - hovercraft

i - inflatable

j - jet ski

k - kayak

l - lugger

m - motor boat

n - narrow boat

o - outrigger

p - punt

q - q boat (James Bond - it took ages to find this!)

r - raft

s - schooner

t - tug

u - u-boat

v - v bottomed boat

w - whale boat

x - x bow boat

y - yacht

z - z track

Hearing the tide come in....

Chatting to Mum on the phone yesterday - sat in the office in the middle of what turned out to be a cheeky 13 hour day, I could hear the sea rolling in down the phone in the background.

Here are some beach huts, if you imaginifimicate deeply enough you could be there too!

Bunny vision

Bunnies bunnies everywhere...

I have been able to get some scans of my work (instead of photos) and clean them up on photoshop (mastering it slowly)

Here is some sketchbook work I have been amusing myself with..my next little story.

Crit crit crit

It is final Crit soon arrrrrgggggghhhhhh! Here is a beautiful sky from the other evening to cheer me and you up :)

Big box for a big screen - wooo hooo!

GIANT squeegy!

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My typewriters which I am SO in love with. Not the best photo of them - I printed a yellow, green, pink and blue set, they take the Royal Typewriter through the ages- 1919, 1930 and 1950.

I'm loving...

....all the screenprinting. I feel I'm finally at home with the materials I'm using and the results I am getting! Let's hope this is a break through.

I've been working on an alphabet of designer chairs and have now added the second screen of colour and I think it is finished. I'm struggling to decide on a font for the alphabet and chair names and I'd love to get into the letter press room at Uni but I'm worried I'm not going to have enough time. I think what i'll have to do is complete a few mock ups with different text (in photoshop) (photoshop self learning going VERY slowly) and see what looks the best.

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Bunny is coming along nicely and now I've changed his face a little and made him yellow I'm much happier with him - I have completed a full screen of the final sequence image and now I want to make sure I have the rest just right before I do the final screens.

I've also had a go at the James and the Giant Peach competition by redesigning the cover - so far I've just done one colour and I have the characters to add in the second. I have however forgotten my bleed (silly novice mistake) but I am putting it into Illustrator to add further text (self learning going even s_l_o_w_e_r) so I should be able to move things around there. Fingers crossed.

I've moved away from the rose sequence - I was having to spend way too much time in graveyards and the novelty wore off ;)