World's Dissolve

Underneath the central piece there will be fragments of the flowers, which will run down the wall and morph into a pile of rubbish on the floor underneath the piece. This will show how the increase in the volume of packaging is destroying the natural landscape by demonstrating it for the audience to see. By adding this section to the piece it allows some of the contextual background to be seen more clearly by the audience. The use of these colours is all to due to the materials used and also as they create a cohesive piece; the only other colour aspect to the piece will be the fresh roses in the centre of the piece. The colour will represent the amount of life, which is in nature; the flowers will be left in the centre of the piece through out the show where they will slowly die representing the destruction of nature. The petals from the roses will be allowed to fall onto the floor and stay where they fell without being moved or disturbed.

Hidden Truth

The display has been set up to resemble a toy shelf, which would be found in a children’s bedroom, the sculpture has been hidden within the other toys so that it can still be seen but it has to be looked for, such as the signs of abuse in a home. The final creature was present in a way which was to show how there is always a ‘ghost in the room’ and even though that there is no physical evidence of abuse there is always a feeling in the air that something is not right

Natural World

The concept of this work was to show how some of the smallest patterns are beautiful and show how they can be used to create commercial garments that can be worn everyday. This work can still be continued and developed further as there are a lot more interesting patterns which occur in nature that can be used as a base to create more work.

Pin up illustrations

Here is a selection of quick Pin up illustrations which were created created using black liner pens. 

Undead beauty

Here are two final photographs which I created using 'Day of the Dead' stylisation, both of these images depict the fine line between the land of the living and land of the dead. All of the elements where separately chosen and photographed, to be assembled together using Adobe Photoshop.

Jakk the Clown

Here is a painting of a porcelain clown which I own called Jakk, even though everyone finds him creepy, he still is my favourite, he can even dance. 

Lino Printing

Lino Plate

Final Print One

Above: Final Coloured Paper Prints

The final printing process which I decided to produce illustrations in was Lino Printing, this again is a similar technique to Drypoint and Collagraph printing. However instead of using mount board or metal as a base plate you use lino sheets, to create the image in the lino, specialised lino cutting tools are used to cut out the material and removing it. The areas which you remove will not catch the ink meaning, that these will be unprinted areas. (See photograph of plate above). Once the imagery is cut into the plate, ink is rolled over the plate until it is covered evenly, paper is then placed on top and the whole thing is put into a press to provide even pressure. Once pressure has been applied the paper can be pealed off the plate leaving the final print.

I started by printing black ink directly onto white paper, this created a mono-colour copy of the image, however instead of changing the colour of the ink, I decided to change the colour of the paper. This is an easy way to see if different type of colours and papers work well with the print that you are producing.