Lover of Mine - Part 2

Lover of Mine

Beaney Museum - Laura Thomas

I recently designed this poster for Museumaker, to promote the re-opening of the Beaney Museum in Canterbury. Laura Thomas is the featured artist that is having some of her work placed in the museum. This poster is based around the medium that she uses and what she will be bringing to the museum. 

The majority of the design will be screenprinted in a dark red and the text will be in a different colour. 

Happy Christmas.

Here's a page from a new sketchbook and some good music...

Young Girl

Here I used an image of a young girl that I found in a 1970's 'Family Circle' magazine. I'd definitely like to use more collage in future and also find more images from older magazines and references. 

Recent Works

I find fashion and the way people portray themselves very interesting, this painting shows a modest yet pretty style of clothing. I tried to capture inner happiness and beauty, by still keeping the simpleness of using watercolour paints and quite loose brush strokes. Watercolour - A1 

This piece shows my view on the immense amount of pressure and burden that young adults have to endure in attempt to establish themselves in the world. The weight pulling the bird, that's flying out of its nest, represents the debts and weights that youngsters constantly have to carry on their journey from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood. Paper Cut-out - A1

This piece shows imagination and the colourful and intricate thoughts that an individual can have. Watercolour, ink and collage - A1

New Screen Print

I completed this screen print today, I am really happy with the outcome. It is A2 size and is made up of 7 different layers. This is a limited edition of 11.

SkateBoarder Magazine - 1979

More Sketchbook Pages

Here are a few sketchbook pages from over the past week. I've been using simple line drawings a lot recently, and have been trying to use more coloured lines, trying not to overuse fine liners. 

White Trash Heroes - Sarah Wharton

I first saw Sarah Wharton's work on a gig flyer made for 'elephants'. I find her work very inspiring, the use of detail and different mediums is very nice. 

Check out her blog here 

I'm really happy with this design. I started the drawing with the initiative of creating an extremely intricate picture. I feel that I have accomplished this. 

I am currently in the process of screen printing this and using multiple colours and layers, will upload the final result soon. 

Website Layout

Here I have cut out my heading design and placed it at the top of my website layout. I think it may be too dominant for the page and am considering reducing the size. 

Sketchbook Pages

Here are some pages taken out of my recent sketchbooks. I have been trying to involve collage in my sketchbooks and make it so that the sketchbook is quite bulky and a handful in itself. 

I have also been trying to draw more animals. I think that birds in particular are interesting animals as they often seem curious and naive. The lyric used on this page shows Gulls in a different light than how they are usually portrayed, as they are often known to be scavengers.

Year 1 Design

This piece is the final design for the 'Retro' project. The file was a photoshop file, and was at a resolution of 150, so i changed this to 72 and then exported it to a JPEG to make the image blog friendly. 

Website Header

Here is a design that I am going to place as the heading for my website. I plan to cut the image out using Photoshop. 

I am also deciding whether to create a short Flash animation based around this design to be used on my website. 

Website Layout Draft

This is my first stage of creating my website. I have placed my buttons onto the background that I have chosen. I now need to design a title header and then place it on here as well. 

Developed Ideas

These are my Buttons

This is the background that I have chosen to use for my Website

Ideas Development

This picture shows what text I would like to be included on my website. It also has a few draft hand drawn types for text on my website. 

This shows the variety of backgrounds I have considered for my website. I want the emphasis of the background to be like a sketchbook.

These are the buttons that I have created for my website. I have scanned them onto the computer and cut them out using photoshop. 

These sketchbook pages show my thought process and the development that I have made with my website ideas. I find that developing these ideas in my sketchbook helps as I like the textures and creativity that I feel when working in a sketchbook. 

Liv Bargman

I noticed Liv Bargman's work at Falmouth University, on a open day tour. Her work stood out to me as extremely creative and detailed. I love how she creates fun and exciting illustrations and manages to incorporate different textures and layers, and fun colours. 

See her website HERE 

and her blog HERE 

Initial Web Design layouts

These thumbnails show how I imagine to see my website laid out. I hope that the majority of my tabs, buttons and images will be hand drawn, I think that this will give the effect that I am looking for, so that the website will look like pages out of my sketchbook. I would also like to have designs and collages placed in various positions on certain pages to help add to this effect.

Steph Wells - www.ilikeilove.co.uk

Matthew Glasby - www.mattgillustration.com 

Jessica Taunton - www.jessicataunton.co.uk