Thursday, 28 March 2013

http://www.africanprintinfashion.com/2012/11/lets-sparkle-ere-dappa-design.html
this photo was taken from the website above. (apologies my link isn't working)
I choose to post this image as it reminds me very much of my graded unit. which is researching ballet russe ad the patterns on these clothes are like a modern intake an the ballet russe designs.

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

My art work

pencil drawing
This was done in my first life drawing class 2 years ago. 
This is one of my favourite peices

 Water colour
Again done in my life srawing class 2 years ago.
was happy the way I mixed the colours however my messuring went all wrong
 felt tip pen and coloured pencil
I get bored sometime and do drawings of people who inspire me or who I am fond of, member of a band named askign alexandria.
biro pen
cartoon drawing, when I wasn't busy or wasn't up for homework I would do little doodles in my books and they would be all in the same style.

Home henna kit
This is a design a done for my friend who had invested in a henna kit, I had nothing that inspired me I just done this off the top of my head. winging it.

Sketch book year 6
pen drawing of Emily Buchanan
my sketch book theme was dreams and some how it linked to a lifelong dream of mine or more so a wish. If I could choose a skill to have it would be dancing I find it fancinating.

pencil drawing of Emily Buchanan 
I found the shape difficult to acheive as you can most likely see.

You inspire me

http://beesfiberart.blogspot.co.uk/p/fiber-art-hands.html

I found bee's fiber art when looking for an image of my old sketchbook on google but instead I came across another I loved the look of it so I thought I would have a snoop around and it lead me to this blog site. However some of bees work caught my eye a bit more than the rest which was her heritage journal. You can see it was very personal, and the sketchbook looked old and fragile.

My Idea development

I got my idea for my job when thinking about fairytale and how in films they open by showing you the novel or book. When I thought about the book I stated to think about the writing has fancy letters with small illustrations surrounding it. I also liked the hard back hence why I looked into old books, however I want my blog to link into old things as most fairytale are set in ancient times, a time where it was ok to wear big dresses and corsets, get married to your first love, and be locked in a tower by an evil witch, where you'd await for your prince to save you.


I Love the way this book is written and illustrated as there is so much detail in the drawings and the writing it looks like it has been hand made, the only one of it's kind you'd have to travel far to acquire one. when you aventually have one you turn every page with care like the slightest noise would rip it.

I found this image on dirt and rocks, a book she had recieved for her birthday. however this page is about fairytales, with videos and images of different stories.
http://dirtandrocks.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/fairy-tales-part-i.html

Friday, 15 March 2013

Old things

   I love the detail that use to go into hard back books with small patterns (celtic like)























I love old things, I like the idea of items that have been loved and used so much they start to wear out. Also because I am starting up a business on creating sketchbooks I felt that antique books are going to be a main influence for me and my designs. However my plan is not to copy these old worn out books I will develop them and make them my own, giving them a new lease of life. I also found these pictures on google in images. I put the picture of the paper in with the books because it is linked to the old hardback books, I just think that the old rugged pages give a book a unique feel making it individual.

I also found this image on google however I wasn't expecting to see an old globe, I love the look of this image it just pops. I love the colour of the old globe I feel it makes it look dated but suits it's era, I think the tints of colour make it more special as it's just hinting of the idea of water and land, reminds me of the map made for Lord of the rings.

Lord of the rings
map of middle earth