And what I spent the rest of the day doing. These are hopefully going to be turned into a border for the maze painting. (If it looks terrible, I’ll just use some appropriately coloured Italian paper instead!)

Actually probably the most involved thing I have ever done in Photoshop. 

I have no idea what I’m doing with typography! I wanted a sort of quiet, minimal, sophisticated look. Ah. I don’t know. About the white, either. If I have time to prod it tomorrow, I will, but at least I have a finished example! And, if nothing else, I made friends(ish) with the pen tool.

We were given an invented book title and author name (all previous Fal students!) but had to come up with ideas about theme/content ourselves. I went on a Nausicaa (the Crypt)/Millennium Seed Bank bent (although I think the MSB is way more positive than the Crypt), so it’s literary fiction set in the future, about the preservation of plant species against climate change. (I would read a book about that!) So the greenhouse (see what I did there?) is supposed to look a bit like an ark.

The plant forms are all sort of inspired by origami designs. And the textures are all handmade papers I scanned. 

Revisiting an old theme with a new technique. 

Available as a print!

Sneak peek of something I’ve got to upload later. 

I’m trying to work on doing stuff around my shifts at the cafe. It makes for a very productive warm-and-fuzzy feeling. 

I’m doing the ten-things-about-you thing that’s been going around, and this is sort of an image that’s tied to it. I have way more origami paper than a normal person needs. I hoard it because it’s pretty and patterned and ooh~ 

I’ve always loved the work of Nokkasili and Maruti-Bitamin as well as costumes and shape and colour generally, so their influence (and the reasons I like them!) shine through in this, I think.

Brought a load of old stamps from a Flea Market in Brighton, and was mucking about with some scraps of blue painting I had left. Somehow, it was crying out for bright orange goldfish.