At Last! An Update!

Well, it's been a while since my last post! I will admit that my artwork has taken a bit of a back seat recently. There has just been so much going on the last couple of months! However, I am now finally back on track with it all!

My friend has offered to sell a few of my felts at a Christmas arts and craft fayre she is taking part in, in November. So at the moment I have been trying to get into the festive mood and design and make some seasonal pieces. I am hoping to make a few small felts showing typical Christmas images (trees, stars, Santa, etc) and attach some ribbon to them so they can become tree decorations. So far I have only completed three. But this week I will be firing out a few more. I also want to do a few slightly larger pieces, maybe framed, though I'm not entirely sure yet. I'll see how things go! But from being an art and craft fayre goer myself, and having watched people float around the stalls, I often find they are more inclined to buy smaller, cheaper items, and in a larger quantity. So I am hoping that will bring in a bit more money for me! :)

In other news, I have been drawing a bit more again recently. Yesterday I sat and drew a couple of pictures of my fiancée playing on his Playstation. I haven't drawn portraits in so long but I'm fairly happy with how they came out! I'm not sure what I will do with them yet but I'll keep them for the future.

I still want to carry on with my garden/ outside sketchbook that I started a few months ago. Especially with Autumn now approaching- the colours will be lovely to work with!

The Latest Project...

A couple of weeks ago I began filling a new sketchbook with drawings of things from the outdoors. I'm trying to develop prints and pieces based on outdoors during summer. So generally leaves, trees, flowers etc. I've been doing a fair number of my back garden which has been quite fun

because there's so much going on in it at the moment.

I have cut up one of my Fiancee's old t-shirts (I did ask permission first!) and have started to paint inks onto them, and wash over them with water, which works quite nicely. I love using this apple green pen that I have. When the water soaks into it, it draws out some nice blue colours.

In the post this morning I received some free fabric samples :) which have turned out to be very useful indeed. I have began to try out little things on them, including a little image transfer process using acrylic paint that one of my friends from uni taught me.

I also received a lovely parcel from my Nanny with a huge amount of wool fibres in so I have more to experiment with for my felts :) I was sooo happy :) so i'll be getting on with that pretty sharp-ish :)

New on the 'blogging' scene...

Hi all! I'm pretty new to this so please bare with me. I've decided to set up a blog about my art and textiles work so that I can keep people up to date with what I'm doing and let people know about anything interesting that has been going on regarding my art work.

My name is Emily Quincey. I've just finished doing a degree in Fine Art, studying at The University for Creative Arts, Canterbury. I never really liked putting myself in a box as to what area I worked in (during education you're always pushed to choose between Sculpture, Paint or Print and Digital Media). I like to try a bit of everything (other than sculpture- that's really not my area!). However I have always had an interest in Textiles and Printing and recently my studio work has been leaning into that box quite a bit more.

I love making felts and have a growing collection of figurative and abstract pieces now. I use the washing machine method and needle method and love them both equally but for different reasons.

Last month, my University degree show was held and I exhibited a series of needle felted pieces, taken from photos that I treasure for different reasons. Each felt took me between 3 days and a week to make. Its a repetitive process but I was really happy with the out come so it was sooo worth it!

'With Nanna'

The exhibition

'Engagement'

I intend to update this blog regularly (at least once a week) with the ins and outs of where my work is going. This week I have been filling pages in my sketchbook with drawings of the outside in the summer... leaves, flowers, my garden etc. I want to work with these and develop them into patterns, felts and use them while learning about new processes.

If your interested, I also have a Facebook page with photos of a large amount of my work, so take a look and 'Like' the page if you do :) Thankyou :)