Teddies from book 'The Lonely Bear'

These are two teddies I made for my last project in my Art course, these teddies represent the two main characters of the book, Brown Bear and Rabbit.

I used a basic template for these teddies but I mainly made them from how I assumed they were made as I've done more sewing in my previous project. 

Both were hand sewn and took me about a week to make as well as making a bunting for my final show.

Photo for book

One of many pictures I took for the book for my final project, I would want to paint the animal characters on top of the photos to make the book simple but not to real so I may edit the photos as well to give them a brighter and less realistic feel.

Illustrated animals

These are some illustrations I drew whilst in Bristol Museum, I went to the museum to look at the wildlife section to take photos and collect some observational drawings because for my final project for my Art and Design course I want to write and illustrate a children's book along with creating the characters into teddies.

I chose these animals (Fox, Squirrel, Hummingbird and Deer) because they are the woodland type creatures I want to include in my book and they are recognised by children.

Felt Food Project

For this project I made felt ingredients for four recipes (on the cards) which were Apple and Blueberry Pie, Lemon Cheesecake, Carrot Cake and Strawberry Cupcakes.

The ingredients I made were; Flour, Sugar, Milk, Butter, Box of four Eggs, Carrots, Apples, Lemon, Orange, Strawberries and Blueberries. All hand-stitched and from my own technique.

This was six week project and I spent three of those weeks making my final outcome, along with from week one creating a study of research/ideas and my progress in a sketchbook.

Cardboard Human Heart

For this cardboard object I was given a cardboard box and I had to think of a way to transform it into a human form piece, so I cut the box into small pieces and hot glued them all together.

I then drew my heart design and carved it out and sanded it to shape, then carving into the more difficult areas.

Urban Fashion Project

This piece is a oversized necklace made from safety pins, ripped fabric and wool to make the tassels.

I made the flower type scrunched material effect by getting a square of fabric and piercing the safety pin through over till the pin was filled with fabric. I repeated this over to fill the whole back panel of fabric, and I also made the tassels by hand.

Pointillism A2 Apple

For this piece I chose to use a pointillism technique and do it in oil pastels as it creates a better effect.

This piece is on an A2 piece of thick paper and the whole page is covered with the oil pastel dots. I also used blue and a little bit of orange to make contrasting colours stand out also with the contrasting red and green. 

Colour techniques Apple

For these pieces I tried focusing on colour techniques to make my art more interesting, so I used colour contrasting, pointillism, block colours and soft palettes.

Cubism Pastels

For these five oil pastel, graphite and other media pieces I had a pomegranate, banana, apple and tea pot to draw, the objects got positioned differently for each picture and used a cubism effect to make them sharp and bold. I also only used black, white and one bold colour for each picture.

Objects to draw

These are the objects I had to draw for my Cubism pieces.

Oil Pastel Banana

This is the start of my food/fruit themed project and I picked a banana to draw and used the whole banana by drawing it whole then the peel and slices.

I drew this in black and white oil pastels.

Before and After (Cardboard Carving)

Top picture; Emily Ratajkowski

Bottom picture; My life sized cardboard carving with ink was background

Before and After (Cardboard Carving)

Left; Emily Ratajkowski in GQ Magazine

Right; My cardboard version (without underwear so is more similar to the other two carvings)

Life Drawing

My life drawings in fine pen with a pink wash, I had 10 minutes per drawing.

My human form cardboard project

My finished human form cardboard project

All pictures of model Emily Ratajkowski 

The two cardboard carvings on the outsides are approximately life sized and centre image is a lot larger then life.

For these pieces I found pictures of the model online and edited them on Photoshop to a huge scale and made them into a mono tone so they were just black and white.

I then secured the group of A4 pages onto a door sized piece of thick cardboard and then carved around the black lines with a craft knife, once I had the main shapes I used a lino cutter to slice through the ridges to make the darker effect.

For the lighter areas I got a sponge and tray of water are dampened the areas so then the thin top layer would peel without going all the way through.

Finally, I sanded the darker area to neaten it and done a brown dark to light ink wash.