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Brutalist Patterns

Screenprinting some of my collages of the Barbican

I've experimented with overlaying patterns and blending colours in the same way that 

the concrete is stained and darkened.

Owwch! Vampire Shoes

The theme of painful shoes prevails, I remember my friend's foot actually pouring with blood one night.

The heels were then referred to as the "Vampire Shoes".

Acrylic paint and monoprint on sugar paper

Paper Clothing

Disposable fashion? Fuck Primark it's all about paper dresses!

(or microfibre dura-weve paper to be precise)

Here's some lovely research of paper clothing from the sixties, same era as the architecture I've been looking at.

Two different aspects of "Modern Living" at the time

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Abstracting Architecture

Using my collaged imagery I have worked with simplifying the shapes of the building and start develop 

patterns.

I've been using bright colours which juxtaposed against the grey and dreary concrete and relate to my

research on clothes patterns of the same time period.

Brutalist Architecture

Here are some collaged sketchbook pages relating to my research of patterns within Brutalist architecture.

I visited the usual sites such as the Barbican and the Southbank but also visited council estates, the most

surreal of which was Thamesmead.

It's amazing seeing how the idealistic architecture of the time has failed the residents so badly...

Thamesmead is a wasteland (and looks vaguely like a 70s apocalyptic sci-fi movie)

Year Three

... is the place to be?


Why hello there and welcome to my new blog!


As I've started my third year in BA Illustration at LCC I thought it was a good time to have a fresh start and upload all the things I have been doing over the summer... 
enjoy

Monoprint Experiments

I've been having some fun in the Print Room away from the screen printing beds.

Monoprinting is great as it's instant satisfaction and you can't be to precious... I'm not good at being precious.

I basically just scribbled off the top of my head.

I had financial worries

so these are all related to giving or taking money right out of a hand

Texas Monoprints

More Monoprinting fun... there was a cactus on the window ledge so I drew some desert stuff