plenty more fish in the sea...

At the moment in CAD we are creating works of art based on fish. An i realised that the bar at the top of my blogger that i installed onto it is of FISH!! 10 tiny little goldfish, also when you click on the bar your mouse drops flakes of food :') hehe my point being is that it couldnt have been a better theme for the top of my blogger at this moment on!

A random blog about bees cuz their cool....

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.

Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!

During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.

Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey

A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.

Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.

Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year.

The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.

Bees have two stomachs - one stomach for eating and the other special stomach is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive.

The bees use their honeycomb cells to raise their babies in, and to store nectar, honey, pollen and water.

Honey has natural preservatives and bacteria can't grow in it.

The average worker bee makes about 1/12 th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

images were sourced from Google!!

final fish image >(((,")

When I looked back at my fish hair image I realized it wasn't quite finished, I needed a background! So I went on Google and typed in water backgrounds… it came up with a vast amount of water backgrounds, one problem I had was that most of them had watermarks on them!! When I finally found one I used it in my background, but it didn’t quite go with the image, it was too bright and needed to be subtle. Firstly I changed the transparency of the background this made it look foggy and you couldn’t see the bubbles I drew around the head, so as a result I had to change the colour of the bubbles, this didn’t make the background any less foggy though so I kept the background solid colour (100%). I changed the transparency of the bubbles around the head instead, this worked really well as then it looked like the bubbles were almost clear just like real bubbles!!!

Here is my final finished fish drawing inspired by Andrew Bannecker.

i like to read... so what is my favourite book??

My favourite books are the Hush Hush sagas written by Becca Fitzpatrick, the book is about a typical girl called Nora Grey who falls in love with a guy called Patch Cipriano. but what Nora doesnt know is patch is keeping a deep dark secret locked beneath the strange scars on his back... who and most importantly what is patch? and why is his life drawn to Nora, an ordinary girl? you'll have to find out by reading it yourself ;) what my point is i love the art work on the cover of these books there so thrilling but exciting at the same time! its almost like the picture is asking you a question. on the first book the image is of an angel falling from heaven this angel on the front is patch Cipriano but at first glance you ask yourself who is this fallen angel and what did he do that was so sinister god would have no choice but to cast him down to walk the earth for the rest of his life? the image is also dark and daring with only a bit of red. does this symbolize anything in particular in the book?

The second book is called crescendo and on the front of the cover is an image of a girl looking into the distance, dropping a feather... the feather is also a red colour. this image makes you ask the question who is that girl and who is she looking/waiting for? again the dark colours are sinister which is what makes the book exciting to look at, we can guess from the last book that this girl on the front would be Nora Grey but for her to be holding/ dropping a feather makes you wonder what happened to patch and why id nora connected to him in some way?

i have not read the next book silence but i hope to be getting it for Christmas this year... this makes it so much better for me to Analise the front cover because i scream to myself WHY IS PATCH CARRYING NORA? WHAT HAPPENED TO HER!!!???? this makes me want to read it more than i was when i was only thinking of this book. 

all i can say about these books is that they are a billion times more exciting than what the covers make it out to be!!!!! so i suggest you get reading it now. i am also waiting for the books to be made into films which i hope to happen soon enough. :D

Fish Hair >(((".)

We had to create an image that was influenced by Andrew Bannecker, but it had to be based on fish... I chose one of Banneckers images and changed it... alot. This is my final image followed by the original image by Andrew Bannecker. The second image down is called cough medicine.

What is typography?

Typography is the design of typefaces, and the way in which the type is laid out on a page to best achieve the desired visual effect and to best convey the meaning of the reading matter.

Here are a few images of typography art I liked that I found on Google... 

what is graphic design?

Graphic design is the process and art of combining text and graphics to communicate an effective message in the design of logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication. Today's graphic designers often use desktop publishing software and techniques to achieve their goals.

here are a few examples of graphic design art I liked that I found on Google... 

Rob Ryan

For our Christmas market project we have been asked to design cards to sell to raise money for charity, we are creating the cards by laser cutting an intricate pattern into the front of the card. I researched a paper cutting artist called Rob Ryan and here are a few of his images that I particularly liked.

what is art? and a finished tattoo :)

I was on Facebook and I found a status that really appealed to me, this is what the status said...  

TATTOOS are one of the only things you take to the GRAVE. Having tattoos does not make someone a delinquent or a thug...its art people! Art is about self expression and creativity. Some people hang their art...We wear ours.

this status is a real eye opener to people who turn there noses up at people with tattoos! moral of the story? DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!!

here is one of my finished tattoos :)

More tattoo designs! :)

ive designed some more tattoos, here are the line versions and one of the finished colour version :)

laser cutting is sooo pretttyyy :)

The things you can do with a laser cutting... AMAZING! I was familiar with the laser cutter when I attended college last year and also used it quite a bit and this year I'm glad to say we get to use the thing again!! :D YAY! This year were creating cards with the laser cutter, my strong point? I can design a pretty mean card ;) my weak point they're birthday and thank you cards :/ HELLOOO TUTORS!??? there being sold at a CHRISTMAS market!! wake up an smell the snow!? anyway I recon I can still do a pretty good job of them. Here are a few of my favourite laser cut designs in different materials! :) enjoy.

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