'The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.' Albert Einstein

I decided to use my drawings of mushrooms from the Horniman Museum in this project. I felt that the nature of mushrooms was mysterious: their colour, shape, their connection with fantasy and fokelore, their potentially deadliness and the way they can just appear overnight!

I looked at psychedelic posters and wanted to create a 'trippy' style print. I'm not that happy with the outcome!

After I had completed the print I started to consider the context of the quote. With Einstein in mind I did a couple of sketches, I'm quite interested in looking into the 'golden ratio' further.

Etching

I really enjoyed the etching workshop and want to continue using this process in my work.

Minutiae: 'small, precise, or trifling details'

Looking back at the work I had done I found that I am drawn to small or miniature things. I therefore thought that this would make a good theme for my collection.

I chose to put my chosen drawings in frames, this gives a sense of a museum collection and as at was my first time using photoshop I wanted to keep it quite simple.

Source

An intensive couple of weeks with so many things to look at and draw, but really useful!!

I have visited the V&A, Horniman Museum, British Museum, Hunterian Museum, Spitalfields and Camberwell.

 

Gummi Bears

Our first group project and I felt it went quite well! I was involved in the set for our puppet show. We chose to subvert the message in the song because it was so sickly sweet. We didn't want to allude to the twist in the narrative, hence the sweet, kind teddy bears. A teddy bear's picnic gone wrong!

I was just playing around with some blackberries to illustrate the 'gummiberry juice' in the lyrics. It doesn't look like blood but it is still gory!