I love mail!

So, I knew there was a package on the way, but you know what its like  you get all excited and keep checking the mail box.. Until yesterday I had worried it had gone walk about.. But when I checked yesterday afternoon there was a nice red and white card sitting there waiting for me.. [...]

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Mock up

So this is  her mocked up with her new clothes, I have more pictures to come and some Visual Diary images… But for now.. Here she is with her faded dress with faded sleeves (done with bleach after choosing suitable fabrics) and stained crochet shawl and  synthetic lace that edges the base of her dress… The [...]

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It’s alive!!!

Here are some more of the  actual character that this project is based on.. here  and here
More to come as it progresses (sorry about the not so great pics)

First 2 layers of mache done, only doing thin layers around the main body as most of that if not all except the hands will be covered with clothing [...]

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Larger scale!

So I generally work as small as possible.. I have for this project decided to do a piece that is bigger than 30 cm.. Close to 50cm I think all up. So the story behind this one is that the theme of the course work for this unit like the textile unit is time and [...]

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Rearrange or deranged?

This morning I had this fantastic idea.. I would rearrange the room that I work in and add another set of drawers to the addition.. lift up the corkboards and so on.. Little did I realise that there would be alot of cleaning up to do at the end.. However its fantastic.. I have my [...]

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Hello there..

Ok, so I have taken a bit of a break from posting, no major reason I just hadn’t felt like posting lately, I think I needed a small break mostly away from the computer. Other than that alot of what I am doing is research and experimentation. I have a bunch of projects in the [...]

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Just a little bit..

I have been going on about cards that I will be selling online, here is a sample of the card that I will  be putting up, they will be in packs of 3, the other 2 to be carved and tested. This one has been sent over to my nephew who loves robots and so [...]

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Revamp & Rethink..

So I have had a a5 binder that I put some cut down and tabbed, they were plain, boring and to be honest even though it was well laid out, it just wasnt working, so I decided  to use some of the prints I had done as tests for cards (coming soon!) and put them [...]

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Kraken and Hyperbolic Specimen

So, Im doing sculpture for this lot of my course (as well as some art theory essays, fun). Anyway, I made these little guys yesterday and only got the images online tonight.. The objective of the project was to do a pile of experiments around using wax and string to create, it is an investigation [...]

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