Book Art Baby.

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A book art project I am currently working on that is based on brick lane. I am focussing on Misfits that Migrated to that area of London.

Images 1&2 show some initial observational drawings I did on site of brick lane in my Sketch book, and 3 are my initial experiments into how my pages could look.

I will add posts as it progresses, since I'm all caught up to the work I am doing currently now.

Flash Filters are Fun.

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Fin.

Hybrid Workshop Days are Dandy.

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A one day workshop on collage and characterisation, how wonderful.

Self Portrait As... My Inner O.A.P.

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People always tell me that they believe I am an old woman in the body of a 19 year old. Perhaps its my general mentality towards the general public, how seemingly frail I am, the signs that perhaps I am going a little senile in the head or the use of certain phrases like "it's going to be a hoot!". Maybe its just that I wear my mothers clothes and my hair in a victory roll, regardless I wanted to do a piece about this little character that seemingly lives inside me, I wanted to bring her to life.

The 1st image shows my initial ideas for a self portrait project, and the 2nd shows some research images into how old people look and present themselves, and some 3D tests I did for the final puppet. The small black and white photographs are taken from an old holiday photo album I found on Portabello market. They were just put right into the back of the Album, I find them beautifully unsettling.

The last image is of the little puppet I made, I love her dearly and really do feel like I need to look after her. So naturally, in case anything happened to me and someone else was given the burden of having to look after my puppet O.A.P self, I included instructions on how to care for her in the form of tags attached to her strings.

I made the whole doll (no cheating or templates), using wire, fimo modelling clay, lacey fabric, wool and some hair off my hairbrush.

I think she is lovely, and if you would like me to leave you her in my will so that you can look after her then just tell me!!

Leslie.

Here's a silly picture that Leah Leslie, my fellow illustrator, took of me in the classroom where all the illustrative magic happens at Central St Martians Back Hill campus. The ears, might I add, are of her craftsmanship!!

http://sweetvisage.tumblr.com/

Something That Should Be Outside That is Inside Something Else.

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I was given a bag and basically told to do something with it, so i decided to put a garden inside it, with characters that each had their own narrative and plot to escape from their baggy prison. I will write some more about this project when I can muster the courage, honestly I'm a little sick to death of talking about it for now. *grin* *grin*

Naughty Girl.

I actually took this image out of one of the library books on the sly. For some reason i felt like i had to have it and it had fallen out of the binding already anyway.