Experimenting with CAD...

It's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd share some more work that I've been doing...


It's coming up very close to the end of the uni year (scary!) and to the end of my Final Major Project. Ideas have changed and I've spent far too long deciding over the smallest of decisions but I'm hoping that these CAD designs will be close to finalised for my final pieces in the exhibition. It's been a long few days cut and pasting (and I think I have square eyes from staring at my monitor!) but I think it was all worth it.


Here's a few of the things Ive been working on...Hope you like!

I've gone for a dark, magically feel in these design which I hope shows through. I think some pieces work a lot better then others (especially those towards the end). Going to continue experimenting and print layers onto different textured paper, some mark making and then work on top with a little bit of stitch and photo transfer.


Still lots to do!


Jessica :)

Sketching...

So I thought it was time I shared a little bit of my work - first time I've put any of it on the internet (scary stuff!)


As I've said before, my current project at Uni is A Midsummer Night's Dream and I'm focusing on prints for cards. Now these artworks are just to get me going, I'm going to manipulate some on CAD and experiment with different printing techniques and stitch and other exciting things.


Hope you like!

Flower Line Drawings

I've spent a lot of time drawing trees so I thought I'd mix it up just with a few floral drawings - going to play about with these in CAD.

So back to the trees...

Watercolours and Fine-Liner

Watercolours and Fine-Liner

Watercolours and Fine-Liner

Watercolours and Fine-Liner

Watercolours and Fine-Liner

Apologises for the poor scanning quality! Images are brighter and less patchy...

Watercolours and Fine-Liner

I then began to experiment with masking fluid and creating negatives of my figure motifs...

Watercolours and Masking fluid

Masking Fluid and Watercolours

Watercolours and Masking Fluid

Watercolours, Masking fluid and Rock Salt

Think I'll tidy these up in photoshop a little and then start to layer with some other backgrounds I've done and maybe some handmade papers to print onto.

Now, back to work!

Jessica :)

Lord! What fools these mortals be...

So I thought I'd start with a little bit about my current project, which is my final major project for my second year at university...

I've always enjoyed reading, and it just seemed fitting to base my gift-wrap and card design project on A Midsummer Night's Dream - who doesn't love a bit of Shakespeare right?

taken from (http://www.arthurmag.com/author/aliapenner/)

The 1959 stop motion film of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Jiri Trnka was my main source of inspiration. I just love those inky blues and mystical purples with splashes of green from the trees!

The quirky style of Trnka made me think about my primary sources, and I quickly decided to focus on stark tree silhouettes for my imagery. I've always liked the eerie style of Arthur Rackham's children's illustrations and his strange anthropomorphised tree imagery...

taken from (http://www.creativecloseup.com/arthur-rackham-a-life-with-illustration)

So, with my two sources of inspiration, I set out with my trusty Nikon Camera to take forest imagery as the sun began to go down and night time set in...

Here are a few of my favourites...

Excited to get out my watercolours (love those purples!) and craft knife to do some beautiful blended backgrounds and some hand-cutwork!

More work and research inspiration to come....

Jessica :)