Course work

For this project I have decided I am going to depict life and death. To do that I am going to use animal skeletons, such as; cats, birds, and rabbits, to symbolise death. These animals are just some of the animals that get hunted and attacked by my main vocal point, cats, everyday. I had also planned to use real flowers within my final piece to symbolise life, and leave them to slowly die, but the situation we are in has now halted that plan. I have now had to create my own flowers by using the paper quilling technique, which won't give the same aesthetic, or performance I had hoped for but will symbolise life enough for viewers to get the idea.

Here are my drypoint prints, they seem faded because I forgot to soak the paper before printing onto it, but I like how they have came out. The prints work well with the theme of death.

This is a cross stitch of a bird that I didn't get to finish yet this gave me a lot of inspiration for my other projects and I was really enjoying this technique.

A wire cat skull I made which is about A5 sized.

I also tried to make cat skulls out of hamma beads, but I don't think I could get the colours right with the beads I had.

These are watercoloured dead flowers on an A4 sized page.

These two pieces sit side by side, as an A4 biro drawing, and an A4 wire drawing, of a birds skull.

This is a hand stitched piece, of a bird skeleton on a flower fabric. I thought the flower fabric would make a good connection to life and the skeleton an obvious connection to death.

These birds are instead of the much smaller needle felted birds, (I was not able to finish them as my needle pen snapped).

I believe these are much more my style and fit better with the piece, that I wish to put forward as my final piece.

The red bird is made out of paper quilling.
The yellow bird is made with my 3D pen, it is also a little bigger than the red bird at about A5 size.

I made this with my 3D pen also.
I thought it was a very nice floral touch to my piece without making actual flowers.

Here I used the floral piece as a border with each of the different style birds, I made. The skeleton one blends in too much and is hard to see, if I was to remake my floral border I would have tried doing it in black so it would stand out against all of my birds.

Here I added a paper quilled flower, to equal out life. There are two dead elements and two life elements.

Here these are rabbit skeletons, that I created using my 3D pen, without the 3D side of things, I decided to make it by drawing it, it makes it fragile but skeletons are so it represents it well.

Here you can see, I added life to the death of my rabbit skeletons.

Here is me getting a layout of how I wanted to place my skeletons and animals for my final piece. I arranged them so it looked like the other animals would be circling and surrounding the cat, that in life would have hunted and killed them.