End of Semester

Display of  "work in progress". My desk in the MA/MFA Illustration Studio

My exposed screen... ready for printing

Experimenting in the print studio (Edinburgh College of Art)

Prints in the drying-rack

Completed Print

I have just completed my final deadline and first semester at Edinburgh College of Art, so I thought I would share what I have been up to.

I have used this initial research semester to explore the representation of Multicultural Britain in children's books and the process of screen-printing. I have carried out two focus group sessions that have supported this work, which involved analysing both old and new children's books that aim to represent characters from different ethnic backgrounds. 

Some of this research time was observational, in which I spent Dame Dorothy Primary School in Sunderland. This was a great opportunity to study a classroom environment and see how children interact with each other. I didn't get as much done as I had hoped however, as the children were so interested in what I was drawing and asking me lots of questions! I also spent some afternoons studying the wonderful displays at The Museum of Childhood on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

Alongside this research, I am developing an idea for a children's book. I look forward to sharing more about this with you soon.

Thank you for reading.

Illustration Friday - Scattered

A true representation of my work methods :P

How do you like to work?

New project

Thought I'd share this little sketch from a new project that I have started. Hope to share more with you soon.

Big Bang Creative - NEW SITE

Here it is!! Big Bang have just launched their funky new site. Do you recognise the illustration work..??

Looking good Big Bang! Miss seeing your cheeky faces every morning.

** BIG WAVES FROM EDINBURGH ** 

:)

Paris!

It's been a very busy few weeks for me all in preparation for starting my Masters of Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and training up for the World Karate Championships. This is why I have been a little quiet on my blog.

I thought I would share this recent creation that followed my trip to beautiful Paris to visit my dear cousin.

Thank you to the lovely Angela Muss for some great suggestions of places to visit. We managed to fit in stops to The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees and Montmatre. One of my favourite places was Montparnasse, where we got to see the Tower of Montparnasse and eat some amazing crepes!!! Another beautiful place was le Marais. It was such a lovely place to walk around some cute shops and restaurants. Here we enjoyed a sit in the park, followed by a scrummy hot chocolate.

Although it was only a short visit, we managed to get quite a lot of site seeing in. During our final day, we stayed more local, outside of the city centre and enjoyed a walk around the town. We explored the local woodland where we had fun 'fighting' dragons and monsters with my cousin's four year old son.

Birthday Gift

I have recently been working up some of my hand drawn illustrations up in Adobe Illustrator. This little character was originally created for the Illustration Friday topic 'toy'. She is now going to become a birthday gift for someone very special! :)

The Big Bang Studio

We have recently been making some exciting new changes at Big Bang Creative. One of those exciting projects includes decorating the studio space with lots of playful elements. 

We have created some lovely moo postcards with examples of our recent work. I have also painted our big bang superhero on different focus walls. 

Our hero features on our branded window on a large decal that we had printed by the help of Antonio Spinozzi and Robert McCarthy. Many thanks for the wonderful product!

I would also like to say a big thank you to Christian Mawlam from 90SecondStory for helping me with the photography and even letting me experiment with his super amazing and very very expensive camera!