Using Watercolours again

It's been a while since I've used watercolours; I got some new ones and so I was excited to use them.

I've focused my paintings on the flowers I photographed at the botanic gardens I visited. I love the colours and the brush strokes in my work. I tried to paint using the shape of my brushes.

My own Autumn-Winter colour palette

After yesterdays workshop I just couldn't wait. I picked out some images i loved and created my own palette from them, I think these colours would look really great on and autumn collection scarf, so I will be using it for my current module. The hardest part was probably picking a name for each colour, but it was a lot of fun and I am entirely happy with what I have managed to come up with

Colour Palette Workshop

Today I took part in a colour palette workshop. After studying the colour wheel carefully we had to create a colour palette based in an image that we were given. This is what I created. I love all of the different tones and shades i have managed to pick out. It was also my first time naming my own colours. This has given me some serious inspiration to start creating a colour palette for my own project.

Bumble bee

Here's another drawing based on a bee that I photographed at the local Hancock museum. I love the Florals inside of the wings and feel like this design is really going to tie in with the florals I intend to bring into my designs too. 

Drawing insects begins

Today I started drawing for my new module, for scarf designs. From research I have conducted, I am trying to draw in a "tattoo style". I have drawn a moth from some of my own imagery, but I have made it quite stylized through the use of patterns and shapes inside of the wings, I can't wait to put it into a pattern and add some colour.

The Hancock Museum

Because I want to include some insect drawings in my new scarf designs module, the Hancock Museum in Newcastle was the perfect place to visit in order to photograph some insects; they have butterflies in boxes and others on pins inside of cabinets. I managed to get some great images and they for a great basis for my primary research that i can draw from.

Edinburgh Botanical Gardens

For my new scarf designing modules, I have been highly inspired by insects and florals. So for part of my research I took a trip to Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and it was amazing. I was able to look around each of the glass buildings looking at all of the beautiful, exotic flowers and plants. I took lots of photographs to draw from and had a great time.