Felt Clowns!

Well, today was the last workshop i got to do at my local library. It was really very fun and more than a little bit challenging this week. They had to make, felt clowns. I got the idea a couple of months ago from Felt Mistress when she came to my uni to do her own felt workshop. It was quite difficult with children because they couldn't stitch like i could in Felt Mistresses workshop so i had to find a glue that would work. Which posed its own problems of too much glue making the felt tacky (which happened ALOT!) anywho, heres some photos of their clowns. I gave mine to one of the girls so i don't have my example to show you, but to be honest, theirs were better :)

The age range of the children was 6-11 years old so their abilities were really varied but every one of them did well for their age and ability.

If i had to have a favourite i think it would be this one, the expression on the face is ace!

That is all. Book cover No#2 is on its way :)

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Book Cover No#1

Heres the first front cover in series of God knows how many that i want to do :) First up is Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. I love these books and the imagery it evokes and have been waiting for a chance to try and illustrate them :)

This is it without the text:

Im a bit rubbish at typography but here it is with the title and author written on it:

Let me know what you think :)

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Salt Dough workshop!

Well, today was the second in a set of three workshops i'm set to do throughout August. It went really well and this week, i was allowed to take photos! Yaaaaay!

Although they were told to make animals, i followed it up by saying you can make anything you want, meaning animals. Some however took this to mean anything at all and made:

A man.....

A hot air balloon.......

And this, im not quite sure what it is, but she had fun making it :)

And here are all the others that got made:

(This butterfly now decorates my desk ^_^ )

This bunny looks like chocolate :)

Raaaaaaaaawr!

Overall it was fun, very fun,  very tiring and very very messy. Hopefully the children enjoyed it as much as I did :)

On another note, book cover artwork coming soon......

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My other blog

Don't know if you know, but i have another blog, and i've just updated it with new stuff i've drawn. But so that this page doesn't feel left out, heres a doodle from my sketchbook:

Donatella the bunny :)

(link to my other blog: http://hodgehegswelcome.blogspot.com/)

A bit of random stuff

Hallooooo! Probably last post before i go away. As you know if you've been following me, i'm doing Art workshops in the library where i work throughout August. Well, they put me in the brochure! yaaaay! .....

And this next picture, well its erm, a bit of fun. I was cleaning out my paint palette in prep for going away, and this happened:

I thought it was pretty awesome that it was a gradient and all i was doing was cleaning it! My mam and dad however didn't quite agree when i made them come upstairs especially to see it. Oh well! It amused me :D

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Nia E

New Designers

This week was New Designers. It was a brilliant yet tiring experience an i'm very glad i got the opportunity to go. I don't quite think my style of art is necessarily "in" at the moment, the work getting most of the attention was the more graphicy, block colour type of work, but still, i came away from the experience feeling inspired. I got the chance to speak to an agency about my work and got some really good feedback and advice as to what my target audience should be, which is always handy to know :) Anywho, heres some photos of the event:

I'm going on holiday this weekend for two weeks, so there probably wont be alot happening around here for a while, but hopefully when i get back there will be lots to post :)

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Nia E

Salt Dough Animals!

Heres some salt dough animals ready for one of my art workshops this summer :) Can't wait!
This is the base, the salt dough not painted but fresh out of the microwave:

And these are the final product, please excuse the messy background :)

Hope you like!

Take Care

Nia E