Updates and apologies

So I seem to have had a very un-productive summer for which I apologise, however im hoping to make up for my lack of productivty by showing my craft and home wares.

I've been sorting things out for my new flat so I shall also do tutorials for my makeshift decor and a few pictures of my tidy new space.

Wish me well for start my course at the end of this month :)

Illustration and Imitation

There's Artist's in Them There Books

 looking at some of my favorite illustrators work

I love the work of Liz Clements and so I wanted to create something in that light pastel colouring.

 

This is my image and I'm quite happy with it, I feel however that working half digital and half traditional really suits my work flow and i want to experiment with it more 

possession and obsession

Demonic influences of a Baptised Girl

Hell in the eyes of the faithless and sacred.

Working on images to relate to the proverb hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; I really like the emotion range with this proverb, it's all dark eerie and demonic.

I want to make a small textured book for my pathway finial piece which will need a typography piece to set the proverb and level in the book. the level relates to the difficultly to progress in the narrative world, each level brings more eerie and dark themes and images.

Here is a sample of the typography that will accompany the images.

Nercrophobia, looking at the relationship between fear and lust and the proverb don't speck ill of the dead or dead men don't tell tales.

Looking at dead men don't tell tales, of don't speck ill of the dead but without ever saying the word dead.

Looking at the proverb the darkest hour is just before dawn, using scanned antlers as background

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, my current typography proverb to be done in this style, i tried to get the image to look like they were burning in the fires of hell.

Looking at a possible imagery to reflect the proverb See no Evil, I love the contrasts in the eyes and how they block the real eyes from seeing.

Stigmata

Illustration of the deaf.

Hear No Evil

The last image in a trio of images relating to stigmata with the heading Hear No Evil.

This one isn't my favourite, but it dose have an eloquence and charm I don't think I expected the piece to have, so I'm really pleased with my work on digital mix-media images. 

Also going up to Sheffield fro an interview or two, may have to have another cheeky brake due to my course, much more on it later in the week!

Stresses and Messes

My course is stress, it's not stressful it's a big old ball of hate.

I wish that was an understatement.

Most students on my course spend the day working and moaning about the course, as much as I try to be a voice of reason procrastination and deadlines bring out the worse in me... and boy can I rant.

anyway some of this weeks digital works for your eyes only, well you and the select few who stumble upon my little blog of  pleasures.

He No evil

Stigmata

The joys of interveiws

Tis the season to be worried

F*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck, my deadlines here...

...So as an FAD (or foundation art diploma) student I have signed up for the joys of university and thus, interviews. Sorting out a hard copy portfolio was difficult and stressful enough but as it turns out I'm now expected to have a printed essay on someone I admire, a digital portfolio to take to interview and discuss digital work with them and some extra work on colours affects on mood some sort films and a little landscape drawing...

... yeah.

 this is some of my personal work and is a character sheet; looking at emotions designs and development. I've been told this is a good idea to put in but I'm very worry the uni will judge me negatively for my work being well different.

 This is a painting I did of someone's character Again I feel very insecure about it's relevance and what people will think when they see it.

I don't think this because I think I'm bad, I think I've gotten quite good at using Photoshop  I made the background, layout and header to the blog and I'm very proud of my work. It's when they ask me questions on my work and why I do it that I feel nervous... frankly I don't know why I like doing it nor for that matter why i really want to get into games design, its just a passion in the back of my head that tells me I'm one step closer to my dreams.

More of my course work will appear again tomorrow!

urghh kill me now please, just a little stab?

All that remains.

Antlers, Jaws and all things Skeletal.

Experiments with scanning

 

A antler found while walking the dogs

scanning the bones to give an eerie feel to my images

The composition of all my scans made into one final image, that I can use in my project. What lies in the dark, what hides under you bed, who watches when none else is looking. How will the dawn rise with such darkness.

 

 

 

Some Skully delights

It's better to light a candle than curse at the darkness

A glimpse into how my foundation course is going so far.

My project is based on old proverbs; to explore outcomes I looked into the social, literal and mythical connotations behind proverbs. 

The idea of the shoot was that even in the darkness there's a light; in this case the darkness is death and decay an the light is position of the bones and the ethereal atmosphere the colours and lighting gives.

Small bird skulls on silk, personal favourite

cat skull and assorted animal limbs

Close up on rabbit jaw, I really like the discolouration on the bones

Closer view of the bird skulls

Dog skull, I like the purple and blue hues in these images.

My set up looks like a palaeontology dig site, and I'm a bit of a dinosaur fan.

The full image, I placed the bones to make it look as though they dance and frolic together. I wanted it to look playful and cute even though the subject is macabre.
this represents a little light in the darkness and how some hope, faith and simply seeing past the situation; allows us to see the silver lining to situations that would other wise be taboo or controversial.

On the go

I can honesty say that a foundation course is a lot of hard work and determination; nothing supports this fact more than my effort to work the blogger app.
I don't hate it I just don't like it... yet.
From what I can tell there are many draw backs, not just the lack of mouse and keyboard, my trusted sidekicks of navigation. But simple more worrying issues.
For instance I can't edit layout or text, from what I can. Yet I can put a picture (or pixelated mass if its my phone camera) onto. my post. I don't want to be fussy its just, to me, that defeats the idea.

this fact leads me to conclude that blogging on the go look likes like a dream still. but at least we'll always have Paris.

Red Kuri and Butter Bean Soup.

Soup glorious soup 

We're anxious to try it. Three banquets a day - Our favourite diet!

It's a well know fact I love food. I like it in on and around me and nothing makes me happier than cooking for others. This can only be multiplied by the addition of soup; I really love soup. So with out further a do I give you ...

Red Kuri and Butter Bean Soup.

A delicious winter warmer.

Now this is an adapted recipe I found a long time ago on the internet that involved coconut, nut I went for a nut free option and made my own. It's so easy and very filling!


1. Start off by Heating the oven to 400°F. Use a heavy, sharp knife or cleaver to cut the squash into quarters. Place these quarters in a roasting pan to roast for about 30 mins to an hour, depending on the size of you squash.

2. It is cool enough to be easily handled. When cool, peel the skin away from the squash flesh. then put it into a blender and smush that squash into a purée. now put in a pot with some olive oil in the bottom of it and put that on the hob at a low heat.

3. Add two crushed cloves of garlic (or if you me put the whole bulb in for good measure) half a tube of tomato purée (about 60-100g) and around 150-200g of butter beans to every 300-400g of squash flesh.

4. Season with a little mint and oregano, a good teaspoon of paprika and cayenne pepper, then and dash of black pepper, 1 vegetable stock cube and salt to taste. 

5. Then let it simmer for 10- 20 mins allowing it to become piping hot and allowing the herbs and spices to heat through the soup. 

6. Serve hot for a great winter warming soup guaranteed to fill and please. Serving to someone I suggest a few fresh mint leaves to garnish and to really impress someone do it with with buttered home made bread, trust me its super indulgent feeling and deliciously worth it!

My efforts and of course with home-made bread, honestly scrumptious.

What are my simple plesures?

My simple pleasures...

Art, illustration, photography, recipes food, game concepts, fashion, films, and passing inspirations.

hello reader, I'm a girl call called Freddy entering the mad and cut throat world of computer game design and I'm currently on a foundation diploma course to get me there.

This is me, a self portrait I took as part of my foundation; unfortunately you'll be seeing a lot more of me and my work on here as I experiment and progress. 

My favorite art disciplines on the course have been illustration, photography and traditional and digital painting. Expect to see a lot of artist review and annotation or perhaps worship and wishing; as I join the 'up and coming'.