Birthday picnic in the woods...

My parents have woodland just at the bottom of their garden and when me and my sister were younger we used to play in it all the time. I have so many fond memories of making dens and playing hide and seek in there. Here is my illustration one of the woodland birthday picnics I had...

Diorama's

Final project...

I haven't even finished putting up photos of my last project yet but I thought I'd just stick up a quick post about my new project. This one will become my final major project, so it's all getting a little bit scary!
I've decided to bas my project on memories, and in particular how we don't always remember things accurately and sometimes we merge different things together. I've started off by going through old photo albums to find photo's to draw from. Then I'll mix all the imagery up and change the scale of some things to create new, playful scenes that are stepping into fantasy.
I want to avoid my project becoming too personal and so I'm concentrating more on the animals, plants and inanimate objects in the photos rather than my family members.
Here's a quick something I did earlier...

UV budgie!

I hired two budgies from London Taxidermy and tested them out under UV light just to see them glow first hand. The photo's I took don't quite do them justice, they looked amazing! Here's one of them...

Appearing budgies

On this one the budgies are invisible until placed under UV light...

luminescent specimens

Last term I did a project inspired by a book my mum bought me about Darwin's life. I began studying and drawing animals, rocks, scientific equipment, explorers equipment and the HMS Beagle and tried to create interesting compositions with the different drawings and sometimes also by playing with the scale.
I also had the idea to mix the old with the new and after discovering that budgies glow under UV light I had the idea of creating UV wallpaper for club and bar settings.
One of my first UV drawings was this fox checking out the HMS Beagle...