Double Owl Painting: Archimedes

This is my newest painting, seperate white and black canvases that are painted in negative colors to form an owl's face, thus Archimedes! If you have trouble seeing the owl....look at it for a few moments: he'll fly out! Click images to enlarge!

If you're interested in my messy art workspace as I work, here you go...

The Final Results Hanging On My Wall!!

Well, I can finally show you the final result framed! So here they are:

You can see my little Lord of the Rings collections I posses! These are parts of a much larger collection. I just wish the frames were a bit more matching...and that the background of the horse was green...

Future Planned Projects

I plan to create a cross-stitch piece for every culture of Middle Earth. My next one - which I know I will not began until my next semester break - is the Doors of Moria.
After that, it will be the Elves and Hobbits! Then I'll see what else there is to do!

Thanks for taking the time to view my work! I hope you've enjoyed them!
Sukayna

My Cross-stitch: Cultures of Middle Earth - ROHAN

So you've seen my White Tree of Gondor. That is one of the many cultures of Middle Earth. I have also just completed another one today: the White Horse of Rohan (why is everything white in Middle Earth?!?!?!). This one, believe it or not, took me two years!! Not that it was a hard pattern to create, but I had started it straight after the White Tree of Gondor, school started, and I never completed it! It's been sitting in my drawer and just a few days ago I remembered it and thought, well since I'm on a short break from university, why not finish what I started ages ago! And so I did, so I am very happy that it doesn't have to sit in my drawer for any longer. Believe it or not, I was so fond of this horse, I decided to nickname it Barney. Funny and stupid, yes, but that's what happens when you study hard...

On alleycatscratch.com and The Lord of the Rings: The Art of the Two Towers, I found this great design of one of the Rohan banners. I'm glad I found this design, because all of the other Rohan banners - of mainly horses - were very, very complicated; and if this one took me TWO years to do, there would be no telling how long those other designs would take!

So here is the design:

I really, really liked it, but it extremely hard making a pattern out of this one, simply because the sketch is very rough.

Here are some screenshots from the movie:

You can see where it is outlined in green is my banner and horse!!

Now, as you can see, the horse is white with gold outline and the background is green. When I went shopping for some ambroidery cloth, very, very unfortunately, the only colour they had that was remotely close to green was blue. This was a HUGE disappointment, as Rohan's main colour is green! So I had to live with blue, only to find out two years later they bought back some green into stock...not surprising, might I add.

And here is my version of it: Design property and copwrite of New Line Cinema

Same thread as the White Tree of Gondor, except with golden outlining, instead of silver. I just finished it today, so I am going tomorrow to have it framed.

Will be posting framed photos of them on my living room wall soon!

Photos - escept the last one - and designs are copywrite and property of New Line Cinema. Sources: www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr and www.arwen-undomiel.com

My Cross-Stich - Cultures of Middle Earth

As a huge, huge Lord of the Rings fan, I have been doing something rather unique for the past couple of years. Taking some of the main designs of a Middle Earth culture, and creating my own cross-stitch patterns! It's very fun and I love the results at the end, but I must add that the following designs are the COPYWRITE OF NEW LINE CINEMA! I do not create these to make any prophits or the tiniest bit of money! They are for my personal use and pleasure only. That is called plagiarising and I am strongly against that. For these reasons I cannot/will not post any of my original patterns online.

The White Tree of Gondor

I originally came up with this idea when is saw this simple design on www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr. It was a beautiful design; I actually had the choice between these two trees, but I chose the one on the right.

I love the tree on the right - this was the tree that was embroidered on Pippin's Gondorian costume, and I think it is much more elegant than the tree on the left.

So, I made a cross-stitch pattern, went to Spotlight (a New Zealand crafts shop) and began to cross-stitch. Being two years ago, I can't quite remember how long it took me, but it wasn't too long, I don't think...

Here is the final result:

Design is copywrite of New Line Cinema.

This one is cross-stitch with cotton embroidery thread and bordered with silver thread. It is framed at present and hangs on my living room wall!

I will soon be posting Rohan one!!

All photos and designs - except the last photo - are copywrite of New Line Cinema. Sources: www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr and www.arwen-undomiel.com

My canvas paintings: Flying Over

Painting 1: Flying Over

Please feel free to take a look at "My Gallery" on the right-hand side for albums of my completed art works. I will be posting proccessed etc here!

This is a canvas painting which I loved doing. I generally love painting on canvases because they're so easy and fun to paint, yet they can be expensive. Thus I went round looking for canvases that are of high qality yet something affordable! So I found what is now a favorite shop - Ikes Emporium!!

So I found my art section and spent a long time thinking what I would paint so I could choose the appropriate canvas size. This is what I bought and started painting above.

The left-hand side is before the background was painted, (I personally think it looked better with the white background). And the right is the final product!!

Sculpture: Starting my folio

It is rather interesting, looking back at it now, how unsure I was of taking this course. It seemed very complicated and seemed to consume a lot of money. And it did, but at least it was worth it. I have around 10 CDs packed with photographs of unused documents and sculptures that at times I spent hours making, but they never ended us on my folio. I will be posting many of those images here.

Design: Initial Works

These six photoshopped images can be very disturbing! This is because it is a distortion of the human body based on the Star Sign of Cancer. This was a sperate assessment before the folio, not the folio assessment. (2006) They are flyers for an exhibition.

Flyer One

Flyer Two

Flyer Three

Flyer Four

Flyer Five - Final Flyer

Sculpture: Initial Works

These are my initial works on sculpture. They were not included on my folio as it was a seperate assessment, but it was still marked and graded. These were the first pieces I had ever made for this sculpture course. Plastered egg carton on table top

Plastered cast pieces on chair and Lord of the Rings designed table (original table)



Shadowbox with photoshoped images, scarves and cassette tape.


CDs, scarves, photoshopped borded photo with light

Signed teddy bear with Prefect badge, fabric and cork frame

Box with school uniform and shoes

School uniform in laundry basket with yarn balls and cushion

Constructed shadownbox of personal belongings

Sculpture: Leonardo da Vinci models

Last year, I had decided to use a bit of my Art History interests to complete my Sculpture folio. Unfortunately, they were never used on the folio, but the contsruction of them was extremely fun and they are still one of my most prized possessions regarding art. They are made in small scale (about 6 by 6 inch) and are made from simple materials such as wood, plastic, paper, straw, buttons, wire, paper, cord, cork, toothpicks and glue.

Leonardo da Vinci's war machine


(Back view)

This is my little flying man - an unsuccessful concept by Leonardo:

Leonardo's flying machine

This is Leonardo's invention of the bicycle, one of his most successful inventions of all time:

Leonardo's bicycle

Leonardo's hellicopter - very different to modern designs:

Leonardo's hellicopter design

These were lots of fun to make. I painted them all after I made them to match his drawing sketches.

These models did not make it to my sculpture folio as such, but, when I post close-ups of the folio, you will be able to see them in the shadowboxes at the top of the first board, so they did end up there luckily!

My World of Art: An Introduction to my work

I have been studying art for five years in high school. In the past two years I had picked up two art courses per year. This was lots of hard work and pressure! But never not fun! When I was 15, I worked on a range of different arts to complete an art folio. In New Zealand art courses, you have to complete an art folio to pass the course. This is one of my four folios I have completed:

Art Design folio completed 2006 - Year 13 (aka final year of high school)

This board was lots of hard work, especially on the basis that you have 25 students working on the same thing in one classroom with limited number of computers and lots of stress to get things done! This took almost 3/4 of a year to complete and received an average grade. However, I learnt lots from working on this folio!

Art Sculpture folio completed 2006 - Year 13 (aka final year in high school)

This folio was WAY harder. It consisted of lots of conceptual ideas combied with the practicality of it; it also involved painting skills as well as good photography skills. This was one of the weirdest, yet most interesting things I've ever done in my life, and made me more open minded, aware and knowledgable about the weird and wonderful world of art. It took pretty much the entire year to complete. It received a high grade, which I was thrilled about because it meant all those sleepless nights were worth it! I will be posting future posts with the original digital photographs of both, the final and the conceptual/working photographs from this folio.

Art Design folio completed 2005 - Year 12

This folio was much easier to complete as it was only two boards! Futhermore, we were given the images used - they are the designs of fashion designer John Galliano and his images and designs - and were instructed to design using them or designing around them. This also achieved a reasonably high grade, which I am quite surprised about, when comparing to my future work above. Oh well, times change... I will be posting my 2004 folio as soon as i manage to photograph it, and I will be posting close-ups of these works, and other works very soon. At the meantime, please enjoy my blog, and feel free to comment on anything!