Sketchy.Thinking

Just a couple of sketches to show my idea's and thinking behind stuff. These were for the Artists in the park event that is coming up shortly, just quick sketches but the idea is mixing and matching animals. The top image is a Woose ( whale moose ) strangely big headed fish like with a moose nose and legs. The second image is a bird I've created to be overly proportional and look cute with the big eyes and curved shape.

KFC....kinda.

I'm drawing anything that springs to mind just to keep my illustration going, i'm thinking of doing a few more images like this to purely take the micky out of brands and adverts.

Only.The.Beggining

Tomorrow is the start of the final exhibition at Hull College and also the start of us all being illustrators instead of students. Allot of work, blood, guts and tears have been put in to my years at college especially on the putting together of this final show. Mostly because things keep falling of walls, breaking and just being annoying, but over all I think I have learnt a lot of new skills both artistic and professionally, I have come a long way in confidence from when I first started and have become better then I ever thought I would.
So I would like to say a final thank you to all my friends at college for inspiring and encouraging me to improve my self and my art, I hope you all do well in the future and get creating as much artistic chaos as you possibly can!

~ bex ~

To.Stick.Or.Not.To.Stick

I think I finaly have my frames on the wall, after many falls and re-attaching parts I ended up using industrial strength double sided foam roll and no more nails tape. They all seem to be in order now, still on the wall as far as I know, but the sun and the heat of the room seemed to be melting the adhesive on some walls so it's just a matter of chance that they all stay on the wall. I'm going to arm myself with a heap of double sided tape when the exhibition is going on. :)

Still on the topic of my exhibition space, I had my chat with the external examiner today and I think it went really well, I had a clear mind the whole time, managed to talk about and show a lot more then I did with just the tutors.

.Attempt.Two.

Attempt.Two

After discovering some of the frames stuck out further then the others there was a suggested option of scraping the nails and going with industrial strength Velcro instead. Also the images on my wall had been moved closer together to create a more focus on the group of pictures rather then one picture at a time. The Velcro worked for a while but being expensive and in short supply it had to be spread out and made to last which didn't work well as I resulted in breaking a frame when it fell off the wall. I had already broken and repairers 3 frames previously and didn't want to have to fix any more. So over the weekend I will search for alternative solutions to my problem.

Final.Exhibition.Preparations.

The Chaos of Preparing.

The time has come to put up and sort out my final exhibition at Hull College. My previous blog was showing how i would like to layout my wall, this one shows how it all looks ON the wall. Just a single nail for each picture, but first I drew them all out on paper the nailed through the paper while it was on the wall so I got them all in the right places. In these picture they are hung on the wall but not all of them are straight yet and still lots of mess about, but I think it's looking good! Organised Chaos :)

Exhibition Layout.

Slightly cartoon like sketches of my wall layout for the final exhibition at hull college. This is to let people know more about each image if they wanted to know, going to try and get these either mounted on part of my exhibition wall, or printed and put on my shelf.