Exhibition Day!

Shattered, all this drinking of wine and talking about your concepts and ideas with family and friends (who I'm very grateful to for coming along!) - it's a hard life being an art student, I just want to sleep. But I also wanted to stick some photos up that I took after I completely finished setting up at about 11am today - it's taken long enough!
And I know pride is sometimes frowned upon but I'm pretty chuffed, it looks almost exactly how I envisioned..

Real leaves and bunting (can't go far wrong with bunting!) - Unfortunately the poor bush that I picked to hack at and pin up for my exhibition is now looking considerably worse for wear.

Close-up's of Max's treehouse, it was kinda sweet to hear someone look at my work and say "Oh look, a treehouse! I want to live in there!".

Grass - Way way back at the start of the building process of this final piece I made a rag-rug out of different shades of green fabric, this made a lovely lush carpet for my tree to sit on, I only wish I'd limited the range of colours as I made it - it'd be nicer if it was more grass coloured.

My mini-me/avatar on my Artist Statement, she's holding onto the top of my statement which states where I'm headed next year and what my ideas were about in making this project, I thought I'd make a version of me that matched the rest of my work rather than just a photo of my mug.

And that's it! So close to finishing college now it's scary, the exhibition'll be up until the end of the week, anyone want a tree?

'Max & Jasper' Logo Creation

As part of my final project brief I wrote that I wanted to experiment with some graphic design, I'd decided on my name, just a simple 'Max & Jasper' - named after my characters, so I started quickly sketching out ideas. This is the origin of the design that has practically stuck from the start:

I then designed it properly in Illustrator and starting playing around with colours, tilts and the widths of each letter:

However, given that my final piece designs (for illustrations and models) are much more bright in colour, I spent an hour yesterday re-choosing each letter colour and then printed them onto nice thick, slightly textured paper:

 And then I have spent this evening cutting them out and sticking them together with 1-2mm pads to create some depth and shadow. 

I now intend to pierce some tiny holes the the corners of the A, ampersand and S/P and hang them from each other. The whole design will be hung from a fishing rod, held by a model of the main character,  'Max', at the top of my exhibition boards falling in place next to my set design :)