Much of my attention and energy is focusing on my dissertation at the moment, but in my little bits of spare time I have been paper cutting some lovely little beach huts as requested by some family and also packing up my first sale on Folksy!

In other news, I have been being some research for my next final, major project! I have visited the Maritime museum in Liverpool to get some great imagery and my plan is to start drawing next week so keep an eye out... Hopefully be transforming them into some prints in the next couple of weeks. Very excited to get started although a little nervous...

I will be continuing to look at the grandeur of the tall ships but also exploring this idea of personal stories and the detail of the medals and badges... 

I will be posting further designs on here as they are created! In the meantime, I am updating my Folksy page with new screen-prints and products:


http://folksy.com/shops/EmilyKateAtherton

Happy New Year!

Hello and happy new year... I thought I would sum up some of my lastest designs from last year and the previous project! I hope to develop these throughout my final year by looking into further detail and finding more narrative in my designs.

I have tested these designs in many different colours, styles and backgrounds to explore many ways of application and narrative.

This hand-drawing has been inspired by the maritime stories and shapes have been taken from studying the antique maps that are highly decorative and have lavish borders that I can translate into colour.

These screen-prints have been derived from hand-drawings and applied to watercolour paper to create new colours and textures on the surface. 

I have studied many aspects of the maritime theme and looked at a more grandeur way of translating my ideas. This ship will be screen-printed using 5 colours and explored on both paper and fabric surfaces.

This final design explored my previous ideas of repeating the waves but I arranged them and applied them onto fabric to see the variation and transition from paper to fabric. I also wanted to see in what way I could apply this design onto certain products.

My work is still up for sale in Heswall Dental Practice too for the next week! Go and check it out, don't hesitate to ask for any custom made designs!

Been listing a lot more of my designs onto Folksy! Have a look and get inspired for Christmas gift ideas! I will also be designing some Christmas prints and tea-towels that are coming soon!

http://folksy.com/shops/EmilyKateAtherton

Here are a few pictures I took of the craft fair and some recent designs I have been working on. Everything is very much a work in progress but some new prints will be up soon. Everything is coming together for a final collection of work that I am really happy with!

My table at the craft fair...

New progress...

These are some hand-drawings I have been working on and I have been composing these into full screen-prints!

Folksy!

Some of my more recent artist screen-prints listed on Folksy! Check them out, please ask if there is any more designs you are interested in!

http://folksy.com/shops/EmilyKateAtherton

Tea Towels!!!

I went a bit tea-towel crazy for the craft fair!! I kept with the nautical theme but thought I could translate them onto textiles! All the tea-towels are hand screen-printed to give them a more homely feel...

These are also all available to buy on my Folksy page... 

Folksy.com/shops/EmilyKateAtherton