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Today was the first day of the unit, I am extremely excited about this unit as I adore using a variety of mediums, and excited about exploring what this unit entails, and picking my themes, overall a good day and looking forward to see what i get up to next week.

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This week I was extremely motivated and happy, it was mostly an exploration day, I had so much fun creating some acrylic samples, and working on some project research, looking into what type of theme I would like to bring to life and seeing viable concepts that will help me progress and keep me inspired and interested.

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I feel today was a real start to understanding what direction I was going to take my unit theme, to start I worked on m mind map which filled me with lots of ideas! in the end it was very difficult but I went with animals and flowers! I was really happy with the choice I chose, and genuinely cannot wait as these are things i adore!

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Today was mostly an IT day, and an understanding of the unit requirements, looking at the brief and writing my own understanding of it, along with time managing my key dates and thoroughly looking over the requirements, to keep me on track and up to date with everything, whether that be my work, sketchbook, Padlet or PowerPoint.

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This week I was working on really getting to grips and using a variety of techniques and mediums, working with water colours, acrylic paints and some cross hatching and palette knife techniques, and focusing this wee solely on my theme of animals, I am hoping next week to work with some more patterns and flowers.

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For this week I was just continuing on with creating as many samples for my sketchbook, working with a variety of mediums and techniques, in hopes to further my skills within mixed media and have an adequate amount of suitable inspiration and drawings, overall a successful day with some, pieces I had lots of fun making and was happy with. 😊

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For these past few weeks the work I have done has relatively been close to each other, so I decided that I would combine them all (they still have all correct tasks) over these past few weeks guinea pigs have been my muse, I felt I drew some more serious and more realistic looking animals on the first part of this unit, so for the 2nd part why not add almost a cartoon look to my theme, over the holidays I caught up on my work and felt inspired by the spring months and the things I have around me, spring, guinea pigs and some delicious food!!! I was really happy with these and my favourite I have created so far, I am looking to start painting guinea pigs over the summer to sell on Etsy and these were perfect to start with!

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For week 8+ I decided to add a few oil paintings on as I feel despite it being one of my favourite mediums I felt I have used very little of it, so for my next 2 pieces I made sure to include this medium more! I created a flower oil painting working with palette knives and various techniques, and my next was a painting I created of Becky’s cat (who is also on this course) this tied in well with my theme and was mixed media and added it in for this reason, these were to very special pieces and certainly showed progression and variety and I will definitely include them a lot more!

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A variety of medium and artwork week 8+ 

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A variety of medium and artwork week 8+ 

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Over the past few week I have worked on quite a few pieces, where I soon will start to plan my final piece, but for now I have created some lovely mixed media pieces, i used a lot of acrylic paint included in these mixed media pieces over the week, this is something I wanted to experiment with and play with more, I was extremely proud of all of these pieces, from my fingerprint paint flowers, to the adorable little mushroom frog that was created out of alcohol markers, fine liner and acrylic, and lastly my Guinea pig cage sign created on a newer metal surface and lots of blending techniques with a variety of mediums included, overall very proud of these few pieces and they are definitely steering me in the right direction of what I maybe want to to when I create and plan my final piece.

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For today’s piece I created an inspirational take on something that I am very passionate about…… Horses, I absolutely adore them and I feel I left them out a little and not drawn as much as I usually do! This is why I thought it was important to include them before my final piece, however I have definitely been considering this as one of my potential concepts, i decided to spice up this piece and have a spin on it from my take on horses and also a magical element, I was so happy with this, I successfully used lots of mixed mediums and brush techniques, along with remaining in with my theme, and not to mention it was one of my favourite pieces so far! Overall proud of myself today and it has definitely got me thinking about my final piece!

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Today was the day of the run up to my final piece and what I want to do, I have had these 2 concepts in my mind for a little while, as I went into the main detail on my PP, I am looking at taking a spin on my equine journey or taking elements from my gran and grandads garden involved in with a flower/animal pieces I do have some concept ideas in mind of what type of pieces I will create, and will be mostly looking to use markers, watercolours, fine liners and maybe oil paints and acrylic? I don’t know as of yet and my ideas and inspiration are always sporadic and just pop into my mind which is how I prefer, very excited for what I will choose and where these concepts may take me, and until class next week I will be taking inspiration photos and really thinking about what’s the strongest concept.

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Today was the day I chose my concept and created my final piece, I was extremely excited for creating my piece today and after a long and hard think I decided to go with the option of taking elements of my grans garden and creating a piece with it, I was so happy with how the piece turned out, I used many successful mediums including watercolours, fineliners, alcohol markers and acrylic paints, working with a variety of brushes and line techniques I feel this was a perfect piece for the end of the unit, i out all the requirements and theme idea together and everything turned out very well, I gave this piece to my gran in the end after taking photos of it and both my family and my gran were delighted, I was rather sad this was my last piece as this has been one of my favourite units of the entire course however I am feel I learnt a lot of new techniques and to just be spontaneous and creative, I am proud of my self and the work I have created, the theme was my absolute favourite and not a moment where I never feel I never felt inspired as I done themes I genuinely enjoy, overall so happy and the support from Sheila has been fantastic, and has really benefited me, I look forward to see where these learned skills take me.

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These past few days have been really fun creating some mark making techniques, working with pen lids, paint brush ends and water bottle lids, i used a variety of mediums including acrylics, markers, fineliners, and a few techniques in between, overall i was really happy with these pieces and would love to include them again!

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Over this past week i created some detailed final piece concepts, i created 3 in total, i worked with mark making, a variety of mediums and cross hatching techniques along with some others, they were all very different and i am really happy about it, it gave real variety and definitely got some ideas going and would love to create more in-depth versions of them some day, very excited about these and i loved using the charcoal as i rarely use it but i really enjoyed it i just need to brush up on it a little more!