Anger- seven deadly sins

For my anger sin, I started of my thinking about what some effects of anger can do to people and society. Gun crime jumped straight into my head and that's where my train of thoughts started, by going onto the impact of a gun shot to blood pouring and to the area of the brain that feels pain and anger.

First thread

I've been working on my first thread for the theme seven deadly sins, all a thread is basically a chain of your thoughts from your starting point. For mine I started with the sin 'envy' and my thought of envy was devils and revenge so I found a image of a statue of a devil and started from there, going onto a primary drawing of a goblin then onto looking at the shapes of areas of my drawing, my thoughts from that was Sherpa horns and there texture and shapes which then led onto shape development on the body with Sheep horns, my next step I was thinking would be onto snakes as the shape of the twisted Sheeps horns.

Playing around with manipulating fabric

As part of another workshop called manipulating fabric, which basically means changing how fabric looks, so for part of this i used the 'all sides gathered' technique which is when you just fold all the fabric up in different places and stitch areas of it down onto a separate piece of fabric. however for my experiment i just folded the middle section of the material and stitched this down and left the sides of the fabric loose giving it this kind of flower look. I then just thought 'lets see how it would look on the body' and this is what i did, by placing my experiment on different areas of a manikin i could see where it looked best on the body. 

Knitting workshop

The knitting workshop actually turned out to be quite relaxing after while, even though I did know how to knit before the workshop so it didn't make it that difficult for me, after a little sample in wool I moved onto knitting wire (wow that was hard) I managed it though and it turned out quite a success. My next challenge is knitting with tied together piece of fabric and tissue paper. Ill upload a photo of this once i have managed it, however heres my wire knitting.

Maybe I lied...

Okay I may of lied on my last post about it being my last one today but I couldn't help myself, I just wanted to share my progress in the lace workshop! So basically what I have done is drawn my observational drawing across two pages in my sketchbook and my plan is to recreate areas of the drawing using lace in some areas to be pit over the top of my drawing, I have started in some areas but still waiting for some lace to dry from creating it earlier but this is it so far... (Sorry for lying)

I can't stop blogging today!

I promise this is my last blog today. I just had to many things to talk about after my busy weekend in manchester! But one last thing ! I am in love with these TOPSHOP Alexa Chelsea boots, they are so simple but so nice and would go perfectly with my low for black jeans and jumpers, I guess I'll just have to save up for them... to much love for topshop

Instagram

Many of the photos I take related to me and mainly fashion are posted on my Instagram page JENBEARDXX (the one with the Christmas pudding hat on)