Today I reached my 100th tumblr follower!

Thank you!

Finally, I designed a seed packet that contains specialist ‘bee-friendly plant’ seeds. VIPER’S BULGOSS is the best plant for bees of all species. By adding a ‘complimentary’ packet of seeds into the information pack, the idea behind this is to encourage people to automatically start planting flowers to help bees (they can use the bee-hive packaging box to plant the seeds into to germinate). The great thing about the box as a plant pot is that everyone can use it, you don’t have to have a garden, you can put it on your kitchen window or in a window box.

Another aspect of my information pack, are information cards on the two most endangered species of bee. The SHRILL CARDER BUMBLEBEE and the  GREAT YELLOW BUMBLEBEE. Spot illustrations are on one side, with information about why they are endangered and how we can help them is on the reverse.

Further final illustrations:

Hollyhock,

Snapdragon,

Primrose and

Grape Hyacinth.

My final flower illustrations, used for my spot illustrations and my montage.

Japanese Quince flowers and buds,

Blackcurrant fruits and

Geranium.

First information element:

One area of information is a series of information booklets in the shape of honeycomb that relate to each season of the year. I only worked one up to full colour, but the inside has 8 of the best flowers and plants to plant at each season time of the year (this way it ensures that your garden can have pollinating plants the entire year round for the bees) There are small spot illustrations for each flower and a paragraph of information.

Additionally, each seasonal booklet opens out in a flower shape to reveal all of the flowers in a ‘scene’. If all of the booklets were worked up into colour when opened they would all match up to create a continuous image that runs from each season.

The outside and what the inside would look like with all of the elements inside. The Bumblebee tag has got the packs contents on the reverse.

Bumblebee Information Project:

Finally, after about 5 weeks of working through my Bumblebee project, I have finally finished, and accomplished, creating a fully working information pack in the form of a multifunctional bee-hive that doubles up as a plant pot to cultivate your own ‘bee-friendly’ plants as well as a way to contain all of the informative elements I have designed.

Here are some starting prints, as experiments which lead onto the main part of my collage for my final images. After creating lots of leaf litter from the university gardens, I dried them and then took relief prints from them to create all of these interesting textures.

Further digital experiments.

Digital Experiments.

Visual Studies:

Quick update on some on-going visual studies work, base upon the Visual Essay I did back in February. I wanted to keep exploring the theme of architecture and using my photographs from Barcelona as reference to explore collage and mixed media, I wanted to see how far I could push its potential.

Here are a few collages, before I have digitally experimented with them.

Little green owls.

I turned my tulips into a 21st birthday card for my friend Edel. I wanted to make it extra lovely as I couldn’t make her birthday :(