Home is where the heart is... or a coffee stain.

This was another task that I was given as part of my GCSE coursework. We were all given an A3 sheet of paper with some coffee stains on it and told to make a load characters out of the stains. This was the exercise that gave birth to Charles, the hedgehog on a rock. Sadly none of the characters have names. Any suggestions, leave then in the comments box. (Don't forget to preview your comment first or it won't let you publish it !)

Look it's Charles !!!!!

Zoomed in on a Plant

This was part of my art GCSE, it fell under the Growth and Decay mini project (Oh how I wish this was a main project). We were all given a load of really old school biology teaching diagrams that focused on small parts of plants and insects and showed and enlarged diagram of it. Once we had picked one we liked, we had to do a monochromatic painting of the diagram. Unfortunately I never quite finished mine for two reasons: first, I hate painting; second, they lost the card I was painting from. But oh well here it is anyway.    

Witch's Hat

Just a sketch I did for reasons I can not recall.

How much is that doggy in the window ?? ... And is there a discount on the fungi???

I got bored. I doodled. I coloured. Sort of. A little bit. 

Einstein

For my 10 hour GCSE art exam I was given the project title of Ordinary and/or Extraordinary. For this I decided that I was going to focus on Einstein. So pretty much my whole exam book consisted of Einstein related sketches, photo edits and paintings with a bit of string theory thrown in for good measure.

This was a pencil sketch focusing on just a small part of the picture.

This was a monochromatic pallet knife painting

This was my exam piece done a slim canvas ochre acrylic paint for the main background with dark brown rubbed splodged on with a sponge

The negative of Einstein's face was achieved by creating a stencil and spraying through with black spray paint.

On the back I wrote out a section of String Theory in a brown Sharpie pen (Yes I am a self confessed science Nerd and proud of it) 

 

With Water Comes Life

This was the first big piece (A1) of art work I did work My GCSE coursework. The project title was Water, and of course being a goth, I managed to link this to blood. 

I started by thinking why we needed water, which took me to drinking, which took me to living, for which we need blood. It was the idea of without water there is no life. However I still wanted to create a piece that focused on fluids if not water itself. 

Once I had come up with the design to have a big drop of blood dripping from the top of the page, my art teacher then suggested / told me to go away and make some fake blood, drip it from a spoon, photograph it, then Photoshop it to look like my final idea. Oh and did I mention my extreme hatred of Photoshop, if not, well I have now. On top of all that she then said to draw an accurate diagram of blood cells. All of which I did. Fun.    

My Lodger.

This is my lodger Mort. He's been living with us for a while now and seems to be enjoying himself. He's pretty good at the piano, but I'm not sure about his cooking skills.