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Wedding Commission

In April this year I was asked to design a wreath of sweet peas for wedding stationary. The beautiful wedding was a few weeks ago. I am happy to be able to share with you a little bit about the process and the final piece!

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'Flow'

Do you know that wonderful feeling of getting completely immersed in a project or activity? What I'm describing here is called 'flow', and it's one of the reasons I love getting stuck into a creative project.

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Assignment 10

Assignment 10 was entitled ‘Working from Photographs’. We were supposed to take our own photographs, and create a design in the form of a greetings card or poster…

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Assignment 9

For this assignment we were asked to find a location we liked, any natural habitat, and study, record and illustrate the species that were present…

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Assignment 7

Assignment 7 involved painting a vegetable. I wanted to paint something a bit obscure and interesting… In the end, I settled for something really simple. Onions…

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Assignment 5

I loved this assignment. I feel like I have improved since the last assignment, and each element (the drawing, planning composition, painting) all came much more naturally…

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Assignment 4

Assignment 4 was a fun assignment, the first opportunity to use a lot of colour after the first two graphite assignments and then all the greens in Assignment 3…

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Assignment 3

I was really excited for Assignment 3, but for various reasons (including finishing my 4th year at University, moving house and county, and welcoming into the world 7 jackapoo puppies) I only had 2 weeks to paint, rather than 2 months…

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