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I used Typography wooden letters printed with ink and old vintage books to make this collage.

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This mark-making piece was created using anything i could find around the classroom dipped into ink and put onto paper.

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This is a strawberry pattern i designed with a pink pen and fine liner. I like how the design is repetitive but each strawberry is different. I this this design would look great on fabric.

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This is a progress photo of another lino I did in the style of a tarot card. I had to carve the letters backwards so they would print the right way. To achieve the different ink colours I used a printing ink medium where you use acrylic paints of any colour and change the formula to become printing ink.

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The top row of images are lino's that I carved and the bottom images are the prints I got from them. Lino is one of my favorite mediums because carving the lino is very therapeutic and you can have many prints from one piece.

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The top left image is some buttons I made by embroidering tiny images and pushing them into a metal button case. In the top right image I used fabric watercolors to make a splash effect background and embroidered shells with beading. The bottom image is a cross stitch piece.

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An experiment with Windsor & Newton watercolors and anatomy practice of snakes.

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This is an illustration i did in my sketchbook with fine liners which i then etched into metal.

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These are watercolor studies i did at a life drawing class.

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These are studies i drew/painted from a life drawing class. The top image was made using Biro pen and the bottom images are charcoal and black ink.

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I painted harry styles in my sketchbook and painted a mask onto him for part of my research in my foundation year at Bolton University, the other images were printed out and I drew masks onto them using Posca paint pens and fine liners.

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For this page in my sketchbook, I used a die cutting machine and a hexagon shape to cut out images I liked from recycled magazines. I then sewed them to the paper and I like the effect it gives on the back.

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I painted this self portrait at the beginning of the Pandemic in April 2020. I took a reference photo of myself and painted the portrait onto a wooden board using acrylic paints. Its supposed to portray my connection to the pandemic. I used a rat to symbolize the pandemic because rats have been the cause of pandemics in the past.

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I love playing around with photography and the settings on different cameras. I borrowed my dads camera and changed the shutter speed and other settings to achieve this “movement” or multiple faces effect. I like how the top right image has lines of white that looks like lightning.

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My Digital Portfolio!

Hello! this is my digital portfolio. i hope you have a great time looking through my work and learning how/why i made it :) 

Here is a little background on who i am and what i create:

My name is Bethany (or Bee) i am 19 years old and i’m from Manchester. I have always had a natural drive to create things because i believe i’m putting my mark on the world by creating something that will outlive me and breathe life into me even after i’m gone. If somebody chooses to admire my work or if my work invokes any kind of feeling in somebody then i believe i am doing what i was put here to do.

I am inspired by artists such as Irem Yazici, Happy D, Janice Sung, Edward Honaker, Vivienne Westwood, Bob & Roberta smith and John William Waterhouse to name a few.

Thank you for taking the time to read/look at my work :)