Planet Ruby Starrs

mono print recoloured on Photo shop Very pleased to say I got excellent marks for my Digital Design module and also for my Material Cultures essay - both gained good encouraging constructive feedback and this is a welcome confidence boost especially as my dissertation is looming in what feels like the distant future but will be upon us before we know it.  I have been working hard on my next interiors assignment, getting my drawings into photo shop and cleaned up so I can continue playing with placement ideas.  There are so many drawing ideas and ways to execute them.  I was really pleasantly surprised and pleased when I scanned my mono prints in and just did a little tiding up as I quite liked the texture the surplus ink gave - I think these designs will lend themselves to being abstract prints and potentially some back ground prints when I have had a play around with colours. Its been half term for schools - us hard working art students don't get that luxury but...

Its all hands on deck full steam computers ahead and final designs are starting to emerge.... they are a little bit scary!!! Having spent a week or more colouring in digital images  - trying to establish a colour palatte that matches my original mood board I've come up with 15 shades based on 5 colours and while I personally think my mood board was almost sophisticated my designs are coming out completely bonkers!!! This is not entirely unintentional, my concept was to use traditional quaint porcelain posh ornaments as seen in the Bowes Museum collection and transform them into funky, naive, contemporary designs and that's pretty much what I have done! The colour palate however has got very vibrant - very primary - gaudy to say the least - but I got to the point when I thought if I want bonkers designs and gloriousness then there are no half measures. Its a slamitin Ruby style again!! I've done some market research and find that my work could well sit (colourw...