Another 3rd year project, this time an artist's book brief. We were given 2 words from which to evolve our ideas, mine being Camouflage and Freckles. I felt freckles were a physical attribute more prevalent in children whilst camouflage would traditionally be used in a military environment. This made me think of WW2 child evacuees. I hoped the illustrations and text (songs sang by evacuated children) would provide a solid answer to the brief.

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Thought I would include some more work from 3rd year. This time the result of a kids book illustration project. The brief involved writing and illustrating a dummie kids book. Mine was titled Boris the Bidgie and his special green feather.

Thought I would include the other pieces of artwork on show at The Biscuit Factory here. The images are screenprints I then cut and assembled into 3 dimensional decoupage pieces. They are also included on The Biscuit factory website: http://www.thebiscuitfactory.com/

My final degree show pieces. :) The milk bottles were included in an exhibition of selected graduates work in a Newcastle commercial gallery, The Biscuit Factory. This was my first chance to exhibit work outside of the art college, and proved fruitful as they included my work in the magazine! :)

More work from 4th year. 3 dimensional illustration and other mediums. The doll is illustrated using coloured electrical wire.

Thought I would include some of my more recent 4th year work here. Much of it can be viewed at http://gemmavalentine.carbonmade.com/ But I thought I'd include a few examples here. My 4th year work followed a 1950s theme and progressed to include 3 dimensional illustration work, commenting on changing modes of communication between the 1950s and present day.

Here's some work I produved in 3rd year as part of a personal project. I enjoyed investigating a vintage toy theme, which I later used in wrapping paper designs.