where line and colour meet

IMG_0822, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

This is one of the pictures I did of the orange coffee pot. If you want to have a look at some of the other sketches then they are all on my flickr page.

where line and colour meet

IMG_0815, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

This is one of the sketches I did of the little green pot.

where line and colour meet

IMG_0844, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

This is the yellow bowl. Unfortunately I didn't get these pictures scanned when I was in college today, so I have had to resort to slightly dodgy photos. But hopefully you get the idea of the way I am trying different ways of recording the objects.

where line and colour meet

IMG_0846, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

This is one of the images for the blue vase.

where line and colour meet

IMG_0834, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

I have done several sketches, using different media to record the five key objects. This is the red bowl.

where line and colour meet - lucienne day

Lucienne Day Cushions

I am a little behind on posts I am afraid. We had a lecture on Tuesday where we were discussing our projects. I showed some of the developmental work I had been doing; and Neil, my tutor, said he could see it leading towards surface pattern design and suggested I look at the the work of Lucienne Day. As it happened I had a book out of the library recently on 1950's surface pattern design, so I was very happy to have a little review of her work.

where line and colour meet - skinny laminx

I loved these drawings of bottles Heather Moore posted on her website. Some inspiration for my next project. Her website - Skinny laMinx shows the lovely fabrics she designs and her blog (where I found the image above) is worth checking out too.

where line and colour meet - elizabeth david

A Taste Of the Sun, Elizabeth David

I love this book cover. It has the type of colours I am expecting to feature in my "where line and colour meet" project, and a great 1950s feel.  I actually came across the book on the Anthropologie website. Always a fantastic source of inspiration!

where line and colour meet

I have just negotiated my next project brief which is called "Where line and colour meet". One of my aims for this piece of work is to be more prolific with the images I produce during the investigation stage of the project.  So hopefully I should have more work to post here.

Japanese Mask by Matisse. Gouache and cut, out paper. 1950.

University of California 110 foot long mural by artist Paul Wearing 

In the meantime Jonny (my tutor) has suggested I look at Matisse and Paul Wearing. Matisse, doesn't really need any explanation, but Paul Wearing, I hadn't heard of.  Paul Wearing (I have learnt) graduated from the Royal College of Art and is a highly successful award winning illustrator.  There are a lot great images on his website, take a look!

collections - my little film

This film was for the first part of our current module, where we had to record our collection, investigate ways of classifying the items and present our findings. My planning was done in my notebook but my blog shows some of my research into other people's collections, and some of the photo shoot (additional images are available on flickr). Over three hundred images and a crash course in final cut pro later, this film was made.

collections - geninne's art blog

some of gennine's collections

I love following Geninne's Art Blog.  She lives in a gorgeous house, posts stunning photos, and does lots of beautiful work. I mentioned her in a recent piece of work I had to do about how we would like our personal practice to develop because I admire the way she balances her family life with some really exciting and diverse projects.  But I had to mention her today as she (like everybody on my course) has been looking at "collections".

collections - learning final cut pro

I have had a busy (but fun!) weekend going through all the photos from Thursday's session in the studio. There were over 300 photos to organise and edit.

I also got my animation piece planned (it is due in on this coming Thursday) and it is pretty much finished now. The clip below will hopefully give you a little taster. I will post the finished piece closer to the deadline.

collections - a work in progress

final linocut princess

final linocut princess, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

refined sketch for princess

refined sketch for princess, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

initial sketch for princess

initial sketch for princess, a photo by only lucy on Flickr.

linocutboy, material and throne together



The finished book




Nick's characters

I have been dying to write about this, and as the book came through at the weekend I now can. Last month I spent a very happy few hours at Material in Ludlow. It is a fantastic gallery and shop and a great resource for books, pressies and inspiration in general. Lucy who owns it is really lovely, and together with Nick Morely aka Linocutboy, hosted a fantastic royal wedding themed day. Nick had come up with a simple (but effective!) design for a Royal Wedding themed book (we got to choose the title!) which allows the reader to make some crazy couples by choosing different pages. Everyone there was asked to design either a Prince or Princess, the crazier the better,which we cut out of lino and printed.  The images on Nick's blog  make everything clear!

collections and things organised neatly

The collections above are from http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/ There is some great inspiration for those of us trying to put together collections for tomorrow.