Where'd it Go?

now i know everyone's proberly been going on and on about the sun disapearing (depending where you are that is) but i must say that this morning waiting for the bus was pretty depressing as there was not one bit of sunshine, the sky was just pure white and now i hear a rumor that its going to snow next week?! what's going on with the world?

but on the other hand there is no sunshine to distract me from my screen printing which i have been doing now for the past hour and abit and its going quite well. just doing big blocks of colour and later i will hopefuly have my second screen ready to use by at least 3 so i can do some quick prints in plain black and maybe navy inks, not sure yet, i'll have to see how much time i have.
on a nother note i learnt something new today, that easter holiday's last for 2 weeks! im not best impressed by this piece of infomation as my time is very limited but theres not much i can do about it other than work my socks off over the 2 weeks and come back with loads of work, which i will do.

its a messy job but i love it!!!

in the end i did get a lot of work done but on the way home i lost 3 metres of calico fabric i was going to use this weekend! so annoyed! now i have to wait till monday to do some work! not impressed but thats what i get for losing it.

A little bit messy

now i know it sounds silly but i do  my best work in the evenings, im not sure why, just do. so i tend to stay up untill about one am on a work night, leave everything on the floor and scontinue with what evere im doing in the morning before i start work or go to college but this morning i had quite a shock! it seems everytime i go to college i come back with twice as much work! but i LOVE it so life is pretty good.

Sunshine!

well! i have been a busy bee today!
the weather has been absolutely stunning so i have been outside all day in the sunshine playng with my new letter rubber stamps and making my own stamps based on the illustrations and prints i have created, inspired by an old folk contridicting poem created in the 1920's.
I am currently in my last final weeks of my design craft degree (its basically art and design!) and for my final major project i have chosen this poem to illustrate and then combine the illustration to create one large piece which i am hoping to be 2x3 metres long.
this is the poem:

pull up a chair and sit on the floor

here is the story i've never heard before

one bright day in the dark of night

two dead boys got up to fight

back to back they face eachother

drew thier swords and shot eachother

a deaf policeman heard the noise

and saved the lives of the two dead boys 

if you dont believe my lies are true

then ask the blind man he saw it too

i absolutely love this poem, the second i saw it i knew i wanted to use it for something so i saved it for this project.

so far i have worked with stitch, screen prints, free machine embroidery and rubber stamping.

i've always been into textiles, ever since i picked up a sewing needle at the age of 6 i havent put it down! over the past year and a bit my interest in graphic and illustration has grown and so i have been combining the two.

 Above is my 'anatomically correct' skeleton i drew using an ordinary hb pencil, i prefer to draw in pen and add a smidgen of water to get a tone effect but this worked out nicely. well anyway, this skeleton is now know as william and is my main piece of illustration from this poem. the image on the right next to him is a rubber stamp skull which i made myself, stamps are tricky to make but worth it! the letter stamps i pre bought from my work yesterday! i dont have that much patience to do letter stamps just yet!

this image is just a shot of my work outside, bang is referring to the 2 boys shooting each other with a sword which i plan to add later on.

this is my first blog so im sorry that its not that interesting but i hope to make them more readable as i go! i am also a photo nutter so i will be adding plenty more photos to show you how colourful my life is!