I'm finally getting there!

My string has arrived! And I have already started testing out patterns and colours for my new summer project! The only change to my plan for this summer is to stick with this blog and not create another one. I will make another page on this blog just for my friendship bracelets, but I think I will get a higher rate of sales if I sell on EBay rather than on here only. But I will take any orders/interests on my blog as well as EBay, and the discount still applies!

So I will put pictures up soon and start a new page. So keep updated and I will add more artwork, photography and my bracelets! Thank youu!

Ellie. 

I want to get out!

It's oh-so depressing at the moment, with all the rain. I genuinely miss summer. I'm not even sure what the sun looks like any more (not that you should look straight into it anyway!). But I really wanted to go out and get some nice summery pictures, of flowers and of the day time summer sky. The natural light just makes the capture so amazing, but no sun, no really nice natural photography.

So that made me realise how close minded I am to the way I take pictures and what makes them look good. So I have set myself a challenge- to get some nice pictures but in darker natural light or rain.


So another challenge added to my summer project is to get my photography up and going again and challenge myself on the subject matter and light source used for the captures. 

Just a light update at the same time- my thread is ordered and on the way! (For my new entrepreneurial development- the friendship bracelets!) I have got some school work to do! Not so much of a loose end! I have my A level course summer projects, which actually seem quite fun to me at the moment! 

Ellie.

Just a touch more artwork.

Finally getting some artwork done! Getting back to the usual way I do this blog finally! So enjoy some of the latest work- finally had the motivation and inspiration to actually do something constructive!

This one is dedicated to two friends, the picture just looked so perfect so I used it as inspiration. I used only pencil  (only HB) so that's why some of the darker tones are harder to see, plus my camera was playing up slightly. 

This one was just a doodle, that I added some cross hatching in pen to to make a more detailed flower. I am thinking of making this piece stronger my adding some kind of back ground. Any ideas?- Watercolour? Collage? Acrylic? 

This was also inspired by nature- a solitary rose. This was made from pencil, but then edited in instagram. (All artwork I produce is on instagram as well as a couple of random pictures) This was more about the outline than the detail and tone, but still a quick drawing. Again any ideas for a good eye catching background?

Hoping to get a bit more interest in this blog again! Hope to hear from everyone soon.

Ellie. 

I have finally decided on my summer project!

I have finally decided what to do this summer! (shock!) I am going to start a new blog, which is completely dedicated to my artwork and jewellery making. I will try and get some sales on there, but setting up the site is going to be more important for me. So I will make this new blog a more specific one! I will carry on with this blog, but I will be focusing more of my time on the other seeing as it will have more structure and interest to me and the audience of the internet! (Not everyone wants such random blog entries!)

I will get it up and running and sorted out to get some main structure and then add links from my new blog onto here! Hopefully get some feedback? This blog needs work as well, so hopefully my inspiration will show on here as well!

If any followers are interested in free samples of some of the work I do, or any commissions to be done I will do a cut price. (I know again ambitious, but I would like to award some of my most loyal followers some how!)

I have finally worked out how to get the price down and more interesting patterns- so hopefully the bracelet making will just be the start! And updates on instagram are needed too- so add me on that too for even higher cut price!

I hope to get this all up and running by the end of the summer enough to gain little bits of money (no profit, just more an investment and hobby!) and so it is established enough for a handful of people to know about it!

Wish me luck- sorry for the disjointed updates so far, I really need to get everything up and running!

Ellie.