Hello Beautiful - My entry

The Hello Beautiful exhibition is up today, and opening tonight!

Here is the piece I have created for the exhibition.

Endurance and survival - things camels symbolise & links to people suffering with breast cancer

Camel & Beauty = words from the same roots in Arabic

Decorated camels - because camel beauty pageants exist and even with 1 hump the camel is still a beautiful camel 

I decided to make the camels go uphill on the words, I like to think that even the composition shows positivity as well as the image as a whole.

I'm really pleased with how it has turned out! 

Eric Carle

I've been looking at Eric Carle recently, and I love the use of shape in his work. The tones in each part are beautiful, and look a bit like collage.

 

I like how the circles have kind of square edges - really like how they're a bit stripey, and the way he uses space - everything on the piece is seperated.

Here is my Eric Carle inspired pigeon work...

Tobias Göbel

I'm a massive fan of animal themed work and I really like these pieces by Tobias Gobel. I think the composition is great - I love the mirrored shape of the owl on the top one and the vivid green background.

  

The circles on this piece are really nice - a different way of presenting imagery (and a bit like a food chain)

                              Also love the watercolour effect on this! It is subtle yet still eyecatching. 

Zoe More OFerrall

I really like how Zoe More OFerrall has picked out certain drawings with colours in her work, and the way she has arranged it all. Her drawings are beautiful, and I'm intrigued by the mixture of different objects such as golden syrup, a Chinese lantern, a London bus and a chicken. Her work is quirky and each drawing is delicate making her work really stand out.

            

Camel outcomes

Here is a possible Hello Beautiful project outcome.

I went with the words 'survival' and 'endurance' as they're two of many great things that camels symbolise, and I think that these are things that really fit well with the Hello Beautiful project - giving people who are suffering with breast cancer positivity and encouragement.

I like to think I've made the camels looks quite beautiful and elegant - linking in to the roots of the word camel... and even though the camel on the right only has one hump, it is still very bright and beautiful and quite clearly still a camel. 

Hello Beautiful - My Project

Trust me to choose something unusual when I'm given a project brief.

This time for the Hello Beautiful breast cancer charity project... I've chosen our (1 or 2) humped friends, camels.

There are a lot of negative ideas about camels, but think about it...

Camels are symbols of 

• Survival
• Endurance
• Journeying
• Adaptation

IN FACT, the words 'camel' and 'beauty' in Arabic have the same roots.

ALSO camel pageants are a thing...

I've learnt a lot about camels, and I appreciate them a lot more now.

But how to put all that across in a final piece?

Robbie Porter

I found Robbie Porter in Now Then magazine. It's as if he's captured every ridiculous/dreamlike idea in his imagination and succeeded in converting it into an image. I love his use of collage, computer and drawing. 

Also think the composition is great - the amount of white space to image is just right.

 The tea drinker reminds me of myself!

Michelle Thompson

I absolutely love Michelle Thompson's work.
The colours, the contrast, the collage.

The way she uses old photos is ingenious - the child on the Bird Watching piece holding out a hand to a bird in a Snow White-esque manner.

 

The placement of imagery is really clever. Thompson plays with scale and shape. In particular I like that the legs on the image above have been repeated, enlarged and had a blue filter added to them.

Shout out to the random camel on the piece. Coincidentally, my current work is about camels.