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These digital collages by Bouchra Benhalima are beautiful.

  

“When I started my blog, I wanted to add my personal touch but I didn’t want to appear in any images. I decided I would act like a style department and share my daily inspiration with others people in the form of collages."

 “This universe comes straight away from my imagination. I feed my mind with a lot of memories from my childhood, and with fragments from my past stories. The past really fascinates me."

Ideas, ideas, ideas.

I like the idea of making a map of my day/experiences/things I do

I think this one is pretty cool.

The same illustrator made a book about their Dad's fishing career which is quite nice, as even if the project is not just about my life it could be about what I know/can find out about the life of someone close to me.

http://bennybrowns.blogspot.co.uk/

Officially starting my new project tomorrow!

I think my theme will be the mess I leave in places
e.g empty mugs ALL OVER the house.

I could make blueprints? Map of mugs?
We'll see!

Movember Sketchy @ The Forum

This evening I've been to Sketchy at The Forum in Sheffield, which is a live art event, during which a drawing competition is held for all attendees.

The theme was movember, so I came up with bees with facial hair...'Beeards.'

I tried to use techniques I've learnt at college recently, so I stuck with a very limited colour palette and thought about composition, leaving white space. I drew the bees in a continuous line with my left hand as well. I quite like the messy effect it created.

This is the last time I'm letting myself draw insects for a while though - I'm getting carried away!

New project!

Because my current project is about myself, I've chosen some of my favourite colours, (purple, yellow and orange) to mess around with.

I've ended up doing space/galaxy themed work, as I noticed that my colours were in a lot of images of planets and stars when I was on the look out for collage materials.

Nope, these aren't the best pieces I've produced but I'd say I've learnt a fair amount about composition and colour palettes whilst at college this week - very useful info for the future!

Tropical World!

At the weekend I visited my sister in Leeds, and decided to go to Tropical World because in my eyes, animals are way more interesting than shopping...

I still don't know how, but two meerkats managed to stay still for long enough for me to do some observational drawings of them, so here they are!

I can understand why people love meerkats so much, they're very entertaining.

Trip to Weston Park Museum

Last week I spent my day in Weston Park Museum, Sheffield drawing some of the beautiful insects that are on display.

I'm definitely up for doing things like this more often. It was really nice and relaxing to sit and draw things that I like for my own enjoyment!

Scruffy Bear

At the moment I'm doing a project about my own story, and things that are important in my life.
Here's a collage of my favourite teddy and best friend, Scruffy Bear.

I've used the inside of an envelope and brown paper, with a continuous line drawing in fine liner over the top.

I really like this effect, I like to think I captured his personality well.

Monoprinting

For the last few weeks at college we've been doing a little project called 'Body Parts'. The theme I chose was insects, and I've really got stuck into drawing them... usually with my left hand in a continuous line = achey hand.

Here are a few of the prints I've done today! I enjoyed doing this a lot, I think the rough lines of ink and colour palette suit the bees well. 

Absolutely thrilled that I'll get to do this every week!

Thorstern Brinkman

I find Thorstern Brinkman's photography really quite eerie. The images he creates are what I can only describe as portraits of the evil character from a horror film. I think that taking the face away from someone changes them completely, since there is no identity or expression on their face... just a sort of shell of a person.
Here are my versions of his work, it was absolutely hilarious to dress up like this.

New MoonKo Shop in Sheffield!

I actually squealed with excitement when I looked over the road and saw that MoonKo was open on Division Street, Sheffield. It is by far the most inspiring shop I've been in for a while, with lovely work from a couple of my favourite Sheffield artists Geo Law and Faunagraphic. I'd really love to have my own work somewhere like that one day, and when I go back I may have to buy everything and a Hantu jacket. 

http://moonko.co.uk/

Here's a bee I made in 3D design. I've always been interested in insects, and thought it'd be cool to make one into a sort of structure. I can imagine this as a huge bee building, I think it'd look incredible. I'd not done metalwork before, so this was quite a challenge... but I am pretty pleased with the outcome.

These crystallised animals by Pasquale D'Silva really caught my eye, I love the idea of using block colours to create tones without blending them, and taking something natural like a fox or bear, and making it into something unrealistic/using colours that are definitely not related to it.