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A Room with a View

this beetle inspired by the Natural History Museum features quite a lot in my designs I'll passingly mention the Corona virus as it impacts everywhere - College has stopped all group sessions - the buildings remain open to use the facilities for the time being but ominous emails about handing in digitally are arriving so I expect it's only a matter of time before it shuts until further notice.  For some students this will cause massive problems - fortunately I'm probably going to be ok.  I have pretty much got myself to a place where I can work from home, I have printed several scarves at college using the sublimation printing and heat press, and now its just a matter of embellishment.  My intention is to order a further 6 designs from an external printing company so I can have them printed bigger and on natural fabrics like silk and cotton lawn but his may not happen just yet.  This is at considerable expense and due to purse strings being a wee bit tight - Dr...

I had a Little Beetle

I hope the new look blog is behaving itself ... please let me know if its not!  I think you can now subscribe to get email reminders again - I seemed to have lost that button before and hopefully it doesn't jump about as you read it! I've been colouring in.  This beetle is from a photograph I took in the Natural history Museum.  I used the photograph, cropped it, enlarged it and then using Photoshop I digitized it until it was just the bare 'bones' leaving me a lovely image to play with. . Its been a quieter week at college - I have been consolidating my work and reflecting on what I have got and where to go next.   I have complied a large file of resource inspiration, some of it primary photographs, collated artists that inspire me and some market research about my potential target audience.  this file is a work in progress as I add to it all the time as inspiration hits me but a lot of it is made up of photographs from my travels and gallery visits...