Bottle Design (Final stage)

It’s nearly a month to the day that I put up the first photographs of the bottle design I have been undertaking. I ‘am pleased to announce that it is finally completed, and I’m pleased with the results! Since the initial photographs I’ve added the rest of the umbrella design around the bottle, placed a two birds on the top of it, and managed to acquire some led lights to place inside. When the lights are on its looks effective and stands out in a room, it looks slightly messy in the day light when the led lights are not on but generally it’s not too bad. When I first got the bottle it was weathered and had been in my nans garden for many years so its great to see how it has scrubbed up! I definitely will be doing some more designs like this in the future and seeing what new results I can create…. watch this space! 

Bottle Design (First stage)

Its been a while since I have produced any work for myself and indulged what I love doing…. making art! I found a bottle in my nans garden, which had been there for many years and surprisingly is in very good condition, although unfortunately I managed to crack it in the cleaning process! As you'll agree its a lovely bottle and I really want to enhance it if I can. Initially I was going to paint on it and use relief paste to enhance it and then I discovered decal paper! With the decal paper I intend to transfer some designs onto the bottle and then hopefully turn it into a fancy light. Since starting my PGCE and working with the student I’ve been really inspired to make my own work and be creative, this is a new type of art work for me and I’m hoping it could lead onto something interesting! I’ll update with photos as I go along and let you see its progression…this may be quite slow as I have a lot to at present!

Hope you all had a good Easter!

Designs for Art Style

As always my apologies for not posting for a while! Here are a few branding designs I produced a while back for Art Style gallery. The brief was simple, to produce a hand made design that could be used for the sign, the logo, business cards and various pieces of marketing. (Please note the blocked out areas on these designs are to protect the phone number and email of the person who owns the gallery and are not part of the design!) Also featured on this page are a few sample invites that were handed out to the exhibition that I had with a few of my arty friends. The theme of the exhibition was Alternative Images. I will post a few images from this exhibition in my next post!!!

Artstyle Mural

 Whilst I was working for Artstyle, a gallery/ shop I painted two murals in the shop to promote my services and to brighten up the place. On one wall I created a new version of the rocket I had designed before and on another I followed on with the space theme as there was a wall painted black, thus I decided to paint a spaceman and planets all over it. 

My plan is to paint more of these murals in the future and hopefully turn it into a small business, if anyone wants a mural please let me know! 

Alien Mural!

The images on this page show a commission I was asked to do for a child's room. The brief was simple to paint each wall with something different. I ended up painting an alien, the earth, a spaceman and a rocket. It was fun to have such a open brief and use the whole space of the room to create an atmosphere. 

The main thing was that the child liked the room and that fulfilled my brief! 

This image shows and overview of the room, note the spaceman in the left hand corner. The rocket was   next to this. 

Mural for Hawes Down School

These are a selection of images from a mural I produced for Hawes Down Infant School. The brief was simple, to produce a piece of art work with a jungle theme with as many colours as possible. The whole  wall probably took me about a week to create and I was happy with the results, more importantly the kids were happy! 

I very much hope to produce more of these in the future as they are great fun to do and its nice to leave a mark some where. 

Time to update my Blog!

Its been far to long since I've updated my blog but I have been busy busy over the last few months. 

I have had my work in two exhibitions, pictures of which will be uploaded soon. One exhibition was in the Bankside gallery in London. 

I've also done some more branding work for a new Art Company which I have been working for, details which will follow shortly!

I have also made two new murals, one of which was for a school in South London. I'm hoping to do a new mural for a hospital as well. Watch this space for more updates soon, my apologies again for being so slack!!