Wednesday 20 April 2011

'Corona Roses' Wallpaper


Here is part of my finished wallpaper, I painted in all the colour by hand, and used a tiny brush to paint the silver pigment onto the bottle stopper.  I am really pleased with the end product and particularly like the added silver pigment which looks great when the light shines onto it.  


I am calling the finished design 'Corona Roses' as the bottle I drew was an old Corona beer bottle.

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Wallpaper In Progress

  Today I started to print my first wallpaper length for my Final Major Project.  I wanted to screen print the length as I like the hand made quality this creates.  I made the screen using drawings from my sketchbook and today I have got as far as printing the black outlines and hand painting in the flowers.  It is a rather long process painting the flowers in by hand, but I like that it will make it completely unique.



  I took this picture once I'd finished the screen printing process, I will post the final piece when it's completed!

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Beetle Embroidery


This is detail taken from a fabric necklace I created for a second year project, in Autumn 2009.  I screen printed flowers onto a vintage floral fabric, machine and hand embroidered to build up the layers of embellishment.  The beetle was from a drawing I made at the Booth Museum in Hove.  The museum's collection of butterflies and insects has been an inspiration to me throughout my degree course.