Fish Mobile!

Finally finished and handed in! Hoorah!
Here it is...

All fish made of silk, real (and very painful when you accidentally stab yourself with) fishing hooks and wire and took about a million hours to make.

Hope you like :)

Dory fish!

Had a fun day finishing some prints and sewing a fish and look who I made....

Dory!

I know it's a bit funny looking but it was kinda fiddly and I think for a first attempt it's not too bad... Now she just needs to help me find Nemo :)
I blame the girls at college for distracting me though, first by talking about work experience placements then the New York trip in May for Surtex. Hi America! Anywhere I really should go visit?

They'll fulfil our dreams and we'll be free...

I'm back on Mumford again :) (This time it's the song Not With Haste)
 
After I eventually stop listening to them in the mornings and get to college I have been doing a fair bit of work, we've started actually printing now which is quite exciting. I'e spent the last few days dyeing fabric to find which to use (I decided on silk for a change) and experimenting...

 (the fabrics are cotton, silk, devore satin, polyester voile for each colour)

The fishes aren't finished yet, Dory needs some yellow and they both need sewing together but it's all getting quite exciting. I've ordered some fish hooks to hang them from cos I think I might make them into a mobile...

Even more fish...

I know, I thought there were no more species of fish left for me to draw but I found some!

And I painted my sleeping mermaid...

Well, from today there will be no more drawing, we're moving onto new print techniques and screen development so possibly say goodbye to mermaids cos I think I'm sticking to the fabric fish...
Sad times for mermaids :(