Saturday, 2 June 2012

Photography, things in the garden

Again, practicing with the camera. I know this isn't in focus but I like that because it makes this 'weed' look so much fluffier and there's the faintest hint of a lens flair which I thinks helps with the softness. Again, it's not spectacular but I enjoy looking at it. I am still practicing with photography after all. 

Friday, 1 June 2012

DIY Screen Printing

The last project in Printmaking class was silk screen printings. It's really fun and easy, but what if you don't have a silk screen or all the fancy equipment? Well a few years ago I found this tutorial on youtube on a very cost effective and easy way to make your own screen prints. I've used this technique myself and it worked really well, my design was a little bit small and too intricate for it to work fully, but it still worked well. So here's an great way of printing your own designs onto a t-shirt (it works on paper too) by Youtuber Bubzbeauty.





And as soon as I can locate what I created using this method I will upload it to show you!

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Digital Collage Continue

 "Music Enthusiast"
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 "Science Experiment"
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Digital Collage

"The Tinkerings of a Gentleman's Mind"


Photoshop CS5
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Spook! Monkey #10

Monkey Drawing Challenge complete! 10 Monkeys for 10 Days! 
It was an interesting challenge that I set for myself, probably wont be doing it again for a while though.

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Le Artist, Monkey Day 9


Blossom Tree


 After watching the video of how to paint a Cherry Blossom tree (shared in the video post below) I was inspired to try it out for myself. It is beautifully unpredictable how the ink flows along the page and it was lots of fun painting this. I wanted to have a coloured background so I first painted a gradient blue and green 'sky' using water colour paint, then used the ink and straw technique to create the branches and then acrylic paint for the blossoms. I used more red in my blossoms because I wanted them to look a little more like Chinese Plum Blossoms rather than Japanese Cherry Blossoms. I'm really happy with how this turned out.