Starting with a simple social media plan of emulating my portfolio, I progressed to also wanting to display process within my Instagram that my portfolio lacks. I chose to begin with mockup designs of my portfolio and business cards as I thought that this imagery was a good example to showcase my brand identity skills ( I am trying to think…
Author: Florence Bolt
Covid 19 and going digital – Building a Portfolio
When faced with the job of building a portfolio in your final year, the task seems daunting. When doing this in Lockdown this is doubly so. At first I was concerned with my portfolio content and the quality of my final degree work which I was planning to use in there. Question started floating about in my head, such as…
Final Reflection
I cannot believe its all done. This project by far was the most fun and most sucessful. I gave myself time to think, time to reflect and although some process is missing in my sketchbook ( I always find this an issue – especially with digital drawings) I am surprisingly happy to have such a wonderful result. As with many…
My Virtual Exhibition – ArtSteps
I don’t feel like I documented the process of this as much as I ought to have done. It took days to make as my laptop would freeze after five minutes of using the online software. It also took a very long time as I attempted to make the entire thing myself, then realised I could completely customise a pre-made design…
Perfecting Gold foiling
After a great deal of practice I have manage to make an A4 sized piece of gold foiling. There are still a few gaps and the foil is a little rough, but I am impressed with my progress considering the terrible outcomes I was achieving a few weeks ago. This foiling will make part of my backdrop for a few…
Clay flowers from the Preston Rose Gardens
Following my tutorial last week, more experimentation was needed and Phoebe Cummings, the clay artist, was mentioned in passing. I had both Newplast clay, as well as Fimo. I chose Newplast(modelling clay) for its temporary form building much like, as Cummings describes the temporary nature of her fine are work. The result was fabulous and the re-creation of the flowers Ifound…
Flower pressing- personal reference guide
A working collection of pressed flowers to give reference to many of my drawings. Along with this, I have a photo reference collection alongside. Please view here..Flower presse book
Branding, Branding and more Branding.
Branding, by far, has been the most difficult thing to research within my project. I wanted to look at other graduates and young creatives and see their branding work. I found ALOT of very bland branding sites or webpages with hardly any strong branding at all. I had found a Nottingham based company called Mylk studios who specialise in branding and follow…
Preston Park Walled Garden
Meditative drawing done at 6 am in Preston parks walled garden. Followed by Headspace meditation