✂✂✂GRADUATING EXHIBITION✂✂✂

I've finally finished tafe, here are some photos of my installation from the exhibition! I've also posted this on my main blog, as now that I'm finished tafe, I probably wont be posting to this anymore!

THE END

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MORE FELT FOOD///I'VE FINALLY STARTED MY EXHIBTION WORK

This is cause for celebration - I've finally started! Hooray! ...This was done about two weeks ago though.... haven't really done anything since, oops. And now it is the start of the second half of this semester - I'd reeeeeally better get crackalackin' on my work! Anyway, these are just lollies; I believe I have over 25 of them now (!!!!) and they will be either used on the table itself or as embellishment for other pieces of cake/cupcakes - depending on their sizes!

Also, sooner or later I WILL get to uploading a photo of the finished product - I have one somewhere, I do remember that its kinda awful because I did actually take it through Snapchat... Ah well! I'll just have to get around to taking another one.

(and here is my lunch! Lunch is VERY important!) 

~FELT FOOD~

This is just a simple and boring text post, of all the patterns/inspiration links that I've come across the internet in my travels to help with my final graduating exhibition piece. This post is purely for myself, to make sure I have a list that I, a) won't loose and b)help me narrow down the vast amount of food I want to create to something actually attainable and more manageable. This list may actually be of some reference/relevance to anyone out there wanting felt food patterns and are tired of using the same three wonderful sites(which have massive correlations

felt food patterns from all over the internet! - note: see 'general lists' section below) :D

Anyway, here is said list - which is simply a link with what type of food it is for written above -

LAYER CAKE
http://www.ikatbag.com/2009/04/something-frivolous-now-for-project-3.html
PUMPKIN PIE
http://smashedpeasandcarrots.blogspot.com.au/2009/11/pumpkin-pie-with-whipped-cream-tutorial.html
CHOCOLATE/POPCORN
http://www.craftinessisnotoptional.com/2010/05/felt-movie-snacks-tutorial.html
STRAWBERRIES
http://www.piecesbypolly.com/2010/02/felt-strawberries-felt-food-cook-along.html
SWISS ROLLS
http://feeddog.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/grand-opening.html
CAKES (INSPIRATION)
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=26836.0/#axzz2bnrAhh78
WAFFLE CONE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannah-hoosier/sets/72157604384246608/
CREAM COOKIE
http://fairyfox.blog.co.uk/2010/06/07/free-tutorial-how-to-make-a-cream-cookie-8751905/
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE(ORIGINAL CAKE PATTERN I USED)
http://megnificentmade.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/how-to-felt-strawberry-short-cake/
POPTARTS
http://www.instructables.com/id/Felt-Pop-Tarts/
CUPCAKES
http://maedchenmitherz.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/felt-cupcake-tutorial/
CHERRY PIE
http://americanfeltandcraft.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/can-she-bake-a-cherry-pie-free-felt-food-tutorial-cherry-pie/

http://americanfeltandcraft.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/free-felt-food-pattern-cherry-pie-tutorial-directions-and-templates/

MUFFINS
http://www.piecesbypolly.com/2010/01/muffin-muffin-who-wants-muffin-felt.html
PANCAKES
http://pinktea-cj.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/happy-pancake-day.html
BROWNIES
http://pinktea-cj.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/felt-brownie-tutorial.html
SUGAR COOKIES
http://pinktea-cj.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/tutorial-felt-sugar-cookies_04.html
DOUGHNUTS/BISCUIT THINGS
http://pinktea-cj.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/donuts-donuts-and-more-donuts.html
CAKE
http://craftbits.com/project/yummy-felt-cake/
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=285598.0#axzz2bnrAhh78
ROSE/FLOWER (FOR DECORATING CAKE ETC)
http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/felt-rose-tutorial.html
LOLLIPOPS
http://www.ikatbag.com/2009/11/how-to-make-lollipops.html
ANIMAL COOKIES
http://lbbsfreecookies.blogspot.com.au/
M&M COOKIES
http://dabbled.org/how-to-felt-m-cookies/
COOKIES
http://bugbitesplayfood.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/felt-cookie-tutorial.html
ICECREAM - FOR REFERANCE
http://playingfood.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/ice-cream-cone.html
ICECREAM SANDWHICH
http://playingfood.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/ice-cream-sandwich-and-how-i-did-it.html
NEWYORK CHEESECAKE
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/new_york_cheesecake
CHOCOLATES
http://www.jpeckphotography.com/sweetiepiebakery/valentinebox.pdf

CAKE STAND!
http://www.jpeckphotography.com/sweetiepiebakery/SweetiePieBakery-125CakeStand8x11.pdf
GENERAL LISTS
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-make-felt-food-our-giga-135005
http://www.piecesbypolly.com/p/felt-food-tutorials.html
http://joeandkristenolsen.com/journal/2010/05/23/felt-food-patterns-tutorials-links-most-are-free

INSPIRATION
http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/fairyfox?ref=em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCk0kmvMCI
http://www.feltcuisine.com/freepattern/
http://pinktea-cj.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/recap-from-year-felt-food.html
http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2008/how-to-play-with-your-food/

I Like Cake #3

More like, "i like people more than cake at the moment but cake is still the be all and end all of everything"~ Anyway, been mucking around with sketching people, which really sucks because I'm a perfectionist and people are goddamn difficult! :( But, I'm a lot better than I was which is nice + I'm still drawing cake (surprise, surprise) and hopefully getting somewhat better at it... maybe... 

Oh and on a not-so-unrelated-to-art note, I finally got around to making my Edgar Degas necklace! He is probably one of my favourite artists, specifically I love his paintings of the ballerinas.

FINALLY STARTED WORK... Kinda!

Finally started messing around with my left over felt to start the onslaught which is my exhibiting artwork for this years graduating exhibition. I haven't yet gone to spotlight to get the felt I need (nor written a list that actually tells me what felt I need)! Anyway, these pictures are from last Friday; they are just of fiddling with the whole "cream puff" thing that I've never been game enough to try because it looked super hard; turns out its the easiest thing ever!

Workspace (+ music - its a very important part in the creative/productive process!)

"Cream puffs" - finddling with designing my own template with more swirly bits O.o

finished cream puffs - brown ones are from the original enlarged templates (2x different sizes) & the black with the strawberry is created from my own template (didn't want to waste chocolate coloured felt if it didn't work!

So far, all is going well - i went to Lincraft the other day and picked up a whole bunch of different rainbow coloured embroidery thread so that now I can sew things properly, by that I mean nice stitching on the pieces which have visible stitches. Overall, even though i haven't really started I do have a good idea of what I need to do but no idea what exactly I need to buy felt wise. Figuring that out is next on the to do list! :D

More inspiration~ ♫♪

(all images found via Tumblr) 

Collage 1: cakes and lollies, drawings and sketches, journal pages, Japanese fashion and bright colours

collage 2: Travis Barker, Blink-182  & Silverchair, Daniel Johns, "no mom that's not punk rock", Storm troopers, Silverchair, Yelawolf.

I do like the idea of anime/cartoons laid on top of actually photographs and drawings, I've seen a few more online and just really like the juxtaposition. 

Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz - the most two most amazing of Disney representations - "I've seen some weird shit" is cute and totally applicable - they've both seen imaginary worlds and had wonderful adventures! :D

Star Trek!~ Most beautiful "space husbands" forever and ever! (with photo shopped flower crowns!) - I absolutely adore OS Star trek, especially Leonard Nimoy/Spock, the entire themes its crew/the human race are projecting are wonderful - unity, peace and everyone coming together for the greater good of mankind. Its quite idealistic and lovely <3

PLANNING IS LAME~ TT_TT

^planning for this blog, its part of the assessment :( & the beginning/basic concept re-writing and thumbnail images of what I hope my final piece for my graduating exhibition will be/look like.

^more blog planning. I think the two images on the left actually turned out kinda cute - little badly drawn and sketchy laptops with the layout that I desire for this blog! :D