and evelyn went...

New blog: Dahlia Duroe

2011-01-17T21:27:00.001Z

I dont use this blog anymore, but please follow me at Dahlia Duroe.

Love xx

Mysteries of Salt and Sea.

2009-06-24T23:55:00.008+01:00

Here's the culmination of all my hard work over the past few months, I still feel like I should be working on it now!! My paintings illustrated myths and legends of the sea taking influence from ephemera and tattoo designs.
The lower picture shows our mini stall which we ran throughout the exhibition (you can see my screen printed flapper girl up on the left). The stall went down very well, we had a lot of great feed back from visitors. Its really motivated me to do more screen prints and hit up the book fairs.

I've got a lot of exciting ideas to keep me going!

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constant work in progress

2009-05-08T00:20:00.003+01:00

These lovely little Russian dolls where designed for a postcard, devised and completed it in one day.
Russian Dolls seemed appropriate with my obsession with Russia, folk and strange trinkets. The rose is a little nod towards my tattoos aswell. =]
put a smile on my face to see it completed without too many complaints!

Another Snow Day: Why So Blue?

2009-02-02T17:59:00.003Z

Another snow day means taking my multitude of cameras for a walk. All film today so its just a Polaroid I have to show until the rest are developed. The cold sent it blue, looks a little eerie and aged.
Should have a good lot of reference images of snowy houses and people wrapped up to work from later.
Besides messing up my tattoo appointment its been a nice quite day.

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First cross processed film

2009-01-16T16:16:00.004Z

Turned out pretty well... need to consider what i'm snapping at a bit more tho. or i'm gonna waste a lot of film. save random snapshots for the digital camera.

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getting there.

2009-01-12T13:59:00.003Z

I've tried and fail with working on my wood and I think I have finally got it right this time. Its still needs tidying up a little, but I'm pleased with it. I will continue to explore with paint and wood in this way now that I've got a bit more of a method.
I'm feeling more confident with my developing visual identity.
Actually being happy makes a hell of a difference.

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snow day.

2009-01-05T18:18:00.003Z

I spent last night making paper boats and birds with the intent of taking them sailing today, but I awoke to snow, so my little boats didn't have much of an outing.
Everything does looks much nicer iced over though.

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I didnt fail. GO ME!

2008-07-28T22:25:00.003+01:00

Here are four spreads from the artists book module I completed recently.
They were based on letters from my dad and my diary entries.
Visually I'm reasonably happy with what I did under the circumstances, but feel I needed to put more consideration into the text, my wonderful time management failed yet again.

they look alright and i had some fun with them.
Now i can get on with doing what I actually want to! woohoo

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pale moon

2008-07-22T13:21:00.003+01:00

part of a double spread I started.

I just wanted to play with collaging and paint. I quite like the moon. On the other half there is a tree and bird cage but they still need a lil bit of work. I'll put it up when i'm done faffing with it!

I'm trying not to get hung up on having a style. when I do that i tend to panic that i havent got one and cant create anything i'm pleased with, so I am trying just to make what I want and find a pattern later. my craft is more important at the moment.

starts with one

2008-05-19T15:50:00.000+01:00

This was a quick thing I did for my Narrative Sequence Module based on Cinderella.
My final spreads went in quite a different direction in the end, I'll post them when I get the chance :]

I'm trying to put off a pretty boring essay and decided to disguise this as doing something constructive.
Every one needs a blog, right?
I'll post something significant soon... promise.

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