A little quilling experiment from my paper promotion project.

It is a little bit too colourful in my opinion but using simple paper as a piece of art could work well. Maybe white quills on a black background or white on white.

Ohh more experiments tomorrow.

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As it is the first of December today I had a mince pie for breakfast, made Christmas decorations with my housemates and now all I need to top the perfect Christmas themed day off is some mulled wine but alas, I do not have the wine or spices to create the tasty drink.

I will have to wait until I get my boyfriend to take me to the Christmas market so I can soak up the atmosphere whilst drinking the lovely wine.

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Today we had a lovely lecture from Helen Murgatroyd, a design and art direction graduate from MMU.

I really loved her work, her presentation style was nice too, simple and unassuming, nothing pretentious just great, solid work. Helen has gone onto do an MA at the Royal College of Art in printmaking. Her work seems to have grown and formed into more experimental pieces, abstract and interesting. Although I definitely do not want to do an masters it was insightful to hear about her experience and how she has become more practiced in her work. A truly inspiring lecture.

I have displayed a piece of work that Helen was commissioned to do for Alice Russell.

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A gorgeous image from a Madame Yevonde book I got from my forage in the library. The colours are so rich, the subject matter beautiful, to me it is just perfect.

I wish I could take photographs like this.

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I decided to go wandering in the library again. I came out with a few books, one that I have looked at a lot before is ’ Appointment with Sigmund Freud’ by Sophie Calle. I find her personal stories in her books so fascinating, the photography beautiful and the whole understated tone so inspiring.

I wish I could keep it! One of my pictures in my Silence piece was inspired by this image. I The way something can look so still but still have life about it is so interesting.

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Another photo taken when working on my silence project.

When I am at university I appreciate my home town a lot more. The view from the Victoria foot bridge over the River Wye in Hereford on an sunny autumn day...Beautiful.

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When photographing objects for my silence brief I took about million shots. I was trying to get a breakfast scene that looked set up but has style. I didn't use this shot but I personally like it, it reminds me of the Yorkshire tea adverts by Love Creative in a way...Even though theres are a lot better, I love the tone of the colours in theirs.

I really love setting up photographs and thinking about the styling even though I am not great at photography, I hope I can do more projects working with more art direction.

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