Mike's Amazing Cakes, can clearly link art and baking together. I love making cakes and these just show how amazing they can be, and shows that you need to have artistic skills a long side structural/3D skills to be able to do this.

Andie clay, fine artist

 

These are some pictures from his sound and vibration gallery and his earth and water gallery. I absolutely admire this work as each stroke works perfectly combine with big bold strokes to small lines, curved or straight or sharp, and in each picture, each of these strokes works so well with the colours that it automatically hits you with emotions. Not only does he do this, but he also draws out basic lines which can be seen as figures or objects or nature and gets your mind exploring the image more creatively.

Chris Ryder Caricatures

I was recently looking at caricatures for my drawing unit and I came across this artist called Chris Ryder. I love his work because although they are cartoony they are also realistic because of how much detail he puts in, which makes them look distinctively like the subject. Not only that, he also adds specific objects into the drawings which represent their hobbies or interests or loves which brings through even more personality. 

local places

Richard Shepherd

Design and Production Supervisor at Alton Towers Resort.

Let's... Circus

Newcastle upon Tyne. They do street performances and also do work shops and circus training.

I like the idea of circus's especially the costume design. I like that the ideas can completely range and there's always something big or wild or fun to create. I like that you need to know what to design for, for example whether the costume is flexible enough for a contortionist or long enough for a stilt walker and then you build on that to make something practical fun and exciting.

NUXUNO XAN

I love how this street art interacts with the natural surroundings as well as the buildings. It makes people see nature as more important, through art which is good because it makes us think about being less selfish to save the environment. Some of the pieces can appear to be more educational and serious where as some are more playful and perhaps humorous, for example seeing humans and trees interact together with the trees growing as hair is quite funny and in one of the cases quite sexy. I think it's a really fun and clever way to educate and aware the public of the environment and makes us think twice about what we are doing. A lot of the paintings are in black and white which makes the leaves stand out more and seem more colorful and posotive compared to the human drawings.

Poppies, Tower of London

The poppies were created by Paul cummins, and Tom Pipe was the stage designer for the setting.

These images of the poppies at the Tower of London automatically hit you with emotion. The bright red from a distance with the flow in the layout is an immense way to remember all the deaths and sacrifices in world war one, with an instant thought of blood loss.

Up close however, the poppies look so beautiful and delicate and I think it's a great way to represent all the soldiers, individually looking quite delicate or naive, but all standing together creating a large intimidating force with 888,246 individual ceramic poppies.

The tower of London during the war was a recruitment site for troops and also an execution place for spies.

Over 1,600 City workers swore an oath of allegiance there as well.

It also acted as a military depot, storing arms and munitions.

It's nice to think that perhaps they are remembering the significance of both the soldiers during the first world war, but perhaps also the significance the Tower of London had as well.

All the ceramic roses were sold and have sold out. They sold for £25 per rose. They were clearly very popular and successful as they have completely sold out. I'm not surprised how popular these poppies were, with how significant and thoughtful this project was.

colleen atwood

These are some images from the 2012 film Snow white and the Huntsman, that I absolutely love. The sketches are gorgeous and show so much character in the facial expressions but also in the costume. You can see in the stiff, dark costumes with pointed frills that they are designed for a particularly evil character, where as the lighter colours with flowing materials automatically represent the costume ideas for a nice warm character. All the designs flaunt femininity often through the patterned details which are quite floral, but also in the fitting of the dresses. The long skin tight black dress design flaunts sexuality and immediately smacks you with the idea of a powerful woman. The white dress on the other hand portrays a younger, girly, loving character with the flowing white dress which in history would often represent purity.

The costumes themselves flaunt many of the characteristics that the designs do, however the white dress here portrays more power with the large puffed sleeves which is similar to what previous Queens, or women in power would have, which now makes this character appear to have more importance, than say the more naive design. The details are amazing in all the dresses and all speak for how the characters are. She is a costume designer I definitely admire.

Here are some more images I love from the classic Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The Queen and Alice's costumes are so vibrant which suggests two powerful characters, and the bright red can also suggest that both characters can be quite dangerous. In addition to this, The Queen of Hearts's dress is longer which suggests a more mature lady, and again has the puffy sleeves and large collars which would be worn to portray power and wealth in the past, like wise to Queen Mary/Bloody Mary which was a big inspiration for this character. Unlike this, Alice's dress is shorter and therefor portrays a younger character and the white strands on her dress suggest purity and perhaps that she's naive, although the bold red suggests that she's a lot more powerful than perhaps is initially thought. The white Queen's costume is long which suggests maturity and is also completely white to imply purity and a good woman. The dress again exaggerates the hips and small-ens the waist which was fashionable to powerful women in the past which suggests that not only is she in power as well, but also wealthy and fashionable.

 These are just some designs by Colleen Atwood from Dark Shadows which I just think are gorgeous and are full of character. The colours and details even in her designs are just incredibly beautiful.