This is my latest complete thing! I used Amy Butler's Chelsea Bag pattern. (This is the smaller of the two options, the handbag).
I am always buying novelty print fabric and not always sure that the projects I make up are particularly successful but in this instance I really like the result.
Sunday, 11 October 2009
wedding photography - blurb photobook
I have already mentioned that we were guests at a wedding this summer what I haven't done is post a link to some of the photos - one is posted here below and others can be seen by clicking on the title of this post which is a link.
I was asked by the bride to take photos as the groom and his friends dressed the venue with flowers and her family and friends helped her get ready at her home just outside the centre of Cambridge. This was a big responsibility and slightly more stressful than I had anticipated. In the end, I found myself riding to the wedding in the car ahead of the bride sandwhiched between the bridesmaids. In the end, the whole day went off very well and I was even pleased with the result when I sent away for my first ever photobook from blurb in which I tried to tell the story of the bits of the wedding preparations and the background to the formal portraits which I witnessed.
I was asked by the bride to take photos as the groom and his friends dressed the venue with flowers and her family and friends helped her get ready at her home just outside the centre of Cambridge. This was a big responsibility and slightly more stressful than I had anticipated. In the end, I found myself riding to the wedding in the car ahead of the bride sandwhiched between the bridesmaids. In the end, the whole day went off very well and I was even pleased with the result when I sent away for my first ever photobook from blurb in which I tried to tell the story of the bits of the wedding preparations and the background to the formal portraits which I witnessed.
Sunday, 9 August 2009
working title
I don't yet have a proper title for the painting that I am working on. The building - part of the Spinningfields development which faces onto Deansgate - houses a bank, offices and a restaurant. I took the photo which I am working for as the light changed at Dusk on an early winter evening. I am taking artistic liberties with the colours but trying to retain something of the feel.
At the time I took the photo, the news was full of talk of nationalising banks and the death of consumerism and consequently, the High Street. The image of this modernist building looming above anonymous female figures appealed to me in this context. (I decided to remove the third figure because she wasn't on the path and thus wouldn't suggest the lostness that I wanted to capture).
At the moment, I am worrying about how to get the colours right in the ceiling of the building around the lights and how to capture the trees on the bottom right of the picture.
At the time I took the photo, the news was full of talk of nationalising banks and the death of consumerism and consequently, the High Street. The image of this modernist building looming above anonymous female figures appealed to me in this context. (I decided to remove the third figure because she wasn't on the path and thus wouldn't suggest the lostness that I wanted to capture).
At the moment, I am worrying about how to get the colours right in the ceiling of the building around the lights and how to capture the trees on the bottom right of the picture.
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