PRISM 15

It was an absolute pleasure to be able to volunteer for PRISM this weekend.

The event gives artists and performers the opportunity to present their work in unusual venues across Sheffield, and Friday's event took place in the old Post Office at Castle House.

Before arriving I couldn't imagine how that'd work, but it did. It may have been absolutely freezing, but it was really nice to meet so many people and see such a variety of work. It was different to any exhibition I've ever been to, and I look forward to being involved again in the future.

http://www.prismsheffield.co.uk/

boubouteatime.

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.