ENGRAVING | CHRISTMAS IS COMING

    

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

sorry i haven't got many exciting photographs recently i have been engraving every weekend doing glasses for people to give as christmas presents. who will be opening a hand engraved glass by me on christmas day? den den derrr such a good feeling!

peace out

jess

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BUSY | FUNDING + FUN!

EASTERN RAVENS TRUST.

last monday was our last workshop with the mini ravens. we have absolutely loved spending time with the kids, sharing our love with them and sit there after every workshop talking about how we cant beleive we call it our job.

felt strange not going on monday!! hopefully we will be back soon to do more.

CREATIVE VILLAGE.

we got to finally annouce our funding last wednesday!

we found out a while ago that we had a conditional offer if we gave over some documents they needed. we were told we couldn't tell anyone until the funding was offically awarded so we have been itching and itching!! the funding came through and we could finally annouce it!

lucy and i sat next to each other and said 1, 2, 3! and pressed post! we loved getting to tell everyone our amazing news!

this is what we posted...

For those of you who don’t know, Lucy and I set up a community interest company last year called Creative Village. Creative Village delivers workshops to a range of ages and abilities, teaching skills from general art and design to beginner and advanced jewellery and ceramics.

We are very proud and excited to announce we have been awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to equip and run our up and coming project, Be Creative. This project will provide creative opportunities for children and young adults to learn new skills and express themselves through art.

WOOOOO THANKS BIG LOTTERY FUND!!

Watch this space for exciting updates on Creative Village!

our next step is to get spending! we have contacted the organisations we are wanting to work with and we will see what happens ...so excitinggg!




BUSY.

the amazing drawings around ccad foyer

more amazing drawings round ccad foyer

as you can see from my footprints - ive been busy.

i have been mega busy being back at ccad, teaching workshops, at my p.g.c.e, writing my p.g.c.e essay, engraving glasses + finding time to make jewellery for BCTF. im getting used to everything now and am a bit more relaxed into my weekly routine.

i have recently found out about getting the bus to work instead of the train, which means i get to go through all the interesting industrial bits and along the seaside ..couldnt ask for much better views for my creative brain!

ROSEBUD CASSON.

we also had a lovely day last tuesday with a visit from rosie. rosie came to both college and uni with lucy and i and we love keeping up to date with each other finding out what where all up to.


rosie has recently bought a flash camera and is enjoying getting into photography. she asked if we would mind letting her come have a nosey in our workshop and take some photos and ask us some questions. we of course loved the idea and had a really nice day catching up and getting caught pulling stupid consentration faces (more from me than lucy!).

caught having a cheeky prod!

to see all the photographs and the interview go to...


http://rosebudcasson.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/hello-last-week-i-was-lucky-enough-to.html


i also could not resist any longer i had to buy some goodies. i wonder who will be recieving some rosebud casson soooon

if you would like your own piece of casson go to...

www.rosebudcasson.com




PEACE OUT

jess
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NEW | EVEN MORE EXCITING THINGS

NEW + EXCITING THINGS.

we had a meeting today at cleveland college of art and design, green lane to talk about the short courses that lucy and i will be teaching!

as usual going into ccad and seeing our college teachers always gets us inspired and excited about what we are doing but especially this time knowing we will be teaching there. i have also managed to work it out so i can use it as my teaching hours for my pgce and caroline has kindly agreed to become my mentor so i cant wait!! ..even better bonus!

i absolutely love working with ccad. when i finished my technician job i hoped to be back involved with ccad soon and here we are! lucy is also attached to ccad as much as i am we cant wait to get going!

keep a look out if you are interested in our short courses ...we will spill all info as so as we can!

'WORKING' IN THE WORKSHOP.

got in the workshop after our meeting and i was far to over excitable after our meeting that i couldn't concentrate properly! we set our work out and i put my goggles on ready and ended up sitting in my goggles chatting watching lucy do her work and taking photos of her instead of doing my own work. engraving isnt the most social work in the world it kind of ruins any chance of conversation.

RANDOM LITTLE NOTE ON THE END.

i was sat with the sun coming through the window and door nicely onto my desk. 

the sun created these lovely patterens and my own little personal desk rainbow through my glasses so of course i had to take some photos to share!

peace out!

jess 

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BLAST FROM THE PAST | LOOKING BACK

LOOKING BACK.

i recently was trying to find a picture of something and ended up going off on one mooching through all my old documents from my old laptop including all the hilarious 'what was i thinking' photos.

while i was looking i saw a load of my old work from college and the begining of uni that was crazy to look through. i thought id share some of my favourites or ones i cant beleive it was me who made it compared to my work now.

NATURAL ORNAMENTATION - COLLEGE YEAR TWO.

i absolutely loved this project. one of my favourites ever and would happily redo it all over again. i loved the challenge of drawing human bodies, especially hands! anyone who draws knows how tricky hands are (anyone who finds them easy you are a genius!) i also liked painting etc this image because of how parts of the body are completely in darkness. i still have all of these hiding away in the loft.

acrylics in a brown sketchbook. using a photograph taken from the internet.
we thought that was fine to do in college!

collaged paper. 

hb pencil. this was also using a photograph from the internet. this one took me hours.

MEMORIES - COLLEGE YEAR TWO.

while i was in college i was in love with sabrina ward harrison. you can see the influence very strong.

i weirdly loved using alot of bright colours back then which is the extreme opposite to my work these days! it was also fully textile which is also something i dont gravitate towards any more.

it actually couldn't get anymore different to my style now could it?

LAYERS - UNIVERSITY YEAR ONE.

at the time i didnt appreciate this bowl/plate, when i look back i love it. it was based on the inside of trees and the rough and smooth contrast of the bark and wood. i still have the mould i made to make this. i might have a play sometime.

plate? bowl? i don't know.

the inside was smooth.

the edge was left raw.

i also kept the textured back.

RULE BRITANNIA - UNIVERSITY YEAR ONE.

i also loved this project it was also one of my all time favourites. it was the first time i really pushed myself to make something i had no clue in the world how to make and new it was going to take alot of work and was going to be very hard.

the copper etched medals on my felted solder jacket inspired tea cosy.

the teapot that pulled every possible muscle in my upper half making it.

a teabag spoon. my first real cutting out job.

its crazy looking at the things ive made and whats moulded me into what i am now. i have made things ive loved and things i dont even like to think about but they've all taught me my strengths and weaknesses. i like having a little reminise and thinking about how far ive came and imagining what it would be like looking back in 4 or so years and wondering what i will think about what i am making now its crazy.

peace out!

jess

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