Foundation is finally over. It has been confidence building, exciting, productive and interesting - but also the most stressful, exhausting, testing few months I've ever experienced. For that I am so grateful. Out of everything I learnt this year the most important thing I came away with is that you get out what you put in. I surprised myself by coming away awarded with a Merit but I was utterly amazed that people actually wanted to buy my work - over the course of two weeks while the exhibition was up I made £164 just by selling my art. I now feel ready to take on my BA armed with all of the knowledge I have gained this year. 

We're now entering our final module at Foundation and for our final major project the word we have been given to work with is "Becoming".

be·com·ing  [bih-kuhm-ing]

adjective1.that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
suitable; appropriate; proper: a becoming sentiment. 3.any process of change. Aristotelianism. any change involving realization of potentialities, as a movement from the lower level of potentiality to the higher level of actuality.

As we come to the end of the second phase of Foundation and I have some rare spare time on my hands I thought I'd write a series of posts about my work so far!

As seen in a previous post I have been illustrating the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. My sketchbook work was all simple, picking out key imagery from important chapters. After lots of photoshop trial and error I produced several minimalistic title pages for the book, each displaying a recognisable silhouette. 

As we have now specialised in our subjects at Foundation we have been set our first project to work on over the Christmas holiday. The brief we have been given is to illustrate a chapter of a book we had to choose from a given list. I had never read any of the books on the list we were given so I got straight to it and bought myself a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird. To my surprise it is actually a fantastic book and I'm really excited to illustrate a chapter.