Christmas gifts

For christmas this year I wanted to make something personal for my secret santa gift, including all the specific things she said she didn't want on a joke list.

Louise Lockhart's work

What did I learn?
- Took inspiration from Louise Lockhart's process to create a screen print quality aesthetic digitally
- Liked having a play without much pressure, opened up my creativity of how to portray simple objects

What could be improved?
- Spent more time focusing on shapes of unusual items, such as planes and robot
- Over-reliance on text to signify items- could this be done through image?
- Same limited colour palette

What next?
- Continue to create things for personal, fun reasons!
- Tackle depicting items I'm not comfortable with to expand my range

Ceramics

I hadn't done any ceramics for a few years, so I really enjoyed experimenting with them in the studio.

I got help from my coursemate and the technicians regarding the techniques and good practice.

I ended up creating a range of different earrings and brooches, all expanding on the pattern making I have been using to create wrapping paper.

WHAT WORKS:
- Fun just to play and see what came of it without pressure of final pieces
- the colour contrasts make them very attractive and versatile

WHAT DIDN'T:
- The yellow didn't show through very vibrantly
- Some curling occurred, despite flattening them during drying- need to figure out how to stop this!

WHAT NEXT?
- make them into sellable jewelry pieces
- Expand my medium use and see what other ways I could sell my work

Wrapping paper

I was very interested in creating some fun, abstract patterns which I could apply to cheap to make screenprinted wrapping paper.


NEXT STEPS:

- Although this was a fun, quick project, I need to make sure my future work is imbued with thorough meaning and intent