Current Major Project

Feeling more organised now I've got all my work on here and my facebook page, www.facebook.com/laparnelldesigns is up and running. All my flyers and business cards are ready to be sent to Indigo, Surtex and New Designers, just my CV left to go. However as well as all this behind the scenes work and paper work I am also working on my final major project at university.

My current major project is inspired by the sea. I live in Redcar-by-the-Sea on the North East coast of England and can see the sea from my house. I walk on the beach every day with my dog, Button, and one day thought "why not use this" ha! I find it laughable that I have never really used my surroundings for inspiration before. So here it is; my seaside inspired major project.
I want to focus on the patterns at the seaside rather than objects, for example; the marks in the sand, the patterns on shells, fishing nets and drift wood.

I started by going along the beach and finding objects to draw from as well as taking pictures that I found visually interesting. I collected a number of objects such as seaweed (which I had to wrestle off Button), driftwood, netting, shells etc. Here are some of my images I took that day.

Took a lot more but keeping them to myself for now. It is amazing how I look at Redcar beach now and see how beautiful it can be, especially in the winter soon. I am continuing to go out everyday and collect objects and images.