Longleat (part 2)

These are my favourite photographs I took from around the park.

My Trip To Longleat

A few days ago I visited Longleat on a day trip. It was lovely there and I took some photos of all the animals I saw. These are some of many animals I saw and photographed.

Abstract Painting

Last night I decided to play around with acrylic paint and some tools and decided to do some abstract painting. I enjoy abstract painting because I think the colours and mark making do all the talking. I love experimenting with what tools make different shapes and marks. I think zooming in to the paint on certain sections work well because all the colours bind together very well and it isn't to overpowering.

Drawing session

Had some time to myself, decided to draw a biro sketch of my mums minature rose bush. With amaro filter on the photo from instagram. 

Making Miniature Stanleys.

First ideas came from making a paper version of my bear Stanley, but that soon developed into adding another laying giving him cotton wool stuffing and essentially making that 2D paper bear into a 3D paper model. I used this idea for my exhibition jar. I made a little Stanley placed him in the jar and created a scenery for him. I made it look like he was on the beach, I added some shells, I created a sandcastle and a deck chair. The outcome was very lovely. It all looks very sweet, like a story from a book. It feels like I have captured a chapter of the story and frozen the moment in the jar.

After my jar was a success I wanted to make more teddies so I decided to hand make some more for all my friends. I changed the nose into a more oval shaped bead. and I also added another update. I used a range of different patterns on paper for the back with relate to each of my friends in a certain way. I then decided to add a 'to and from' tag. I think they came out very well and I am very pleased with the result and so was my friends.

Confirmed place in my chosen course :)

Today I had my letter of confirmation for my course through the post. I needed an overall merit to get in and I succeeded that with getting a triple distinction. I am very happy. Expect lots of upcoming projects. Watch this space.

Business card.

For the exhibition you could give out free business cards to promote yourself and I did just that. I used my photo copies of stamps and the first layer and using alphabet stamps I wrote my name on white card and layered it on top. On the back I added 'artist' and my email address 'samanthadwilliams@hotmail.co.uk'. I really liked the cards and they fitted into my display beautifully.