I found a website called Pinterest and its an online pin board where you pin up things you love that you want to share. And I came across these domes that are on there....they are so amazing! There made to sell the jewellry inside but they have given me so much inspiration in wanting to do more of this type of stuff, I can't enough of it!! About five years ago, when I had no idea where I was going with my life, I use to make tiny scenes and pop them in a jar and I gave every single one away to my friends, so I need to start making more to pop on here...I made one at the start of uni for a summer project they gave us, which was to illuminate in anyway that we wanted a memory. And so that gave me an oppurtunity to make a scene in a jar that actually ment something to me that I could share with everyone. The other scenes I use to make all them years ago, was something I did because I loved making up stories to go with them, or I would make up a story and then create a scene. I love seeing things come to life becasue it really gets my imagination going on what could be happening/ and going on etc I can visualise things better. So in my jars I would make an old looking little lamp post, which would stand next to a park bench and a tree with a tree swing on the branch!
When I was younger, I would stare at the illustrations before and after I would read the text, because I liked to see if I could pick out something that may be happening that the text does not explain and to see if it would be revealed later on it the story if I think I had noticed something. And and so my intersest for making up stories and creating illustrations began since then, as it does for probably most illustrators. However it was the making of the scenes in the jar that actually got me into thinking about doing an art degree, because I couldn't stop wanting to make things all the time, it was like I needed to for some reason!! And as soon as I started my foundation course, I felt right at home, I couldnt believe it had taken me so long to decide that I should be doing an illustration degree, when illustration was all I ever thought about.
I guess I also like making these scenes in a jar because illustrations are great to look at but there closed away in a book. These scenes are treasured in jar to be seen and looked at wherever. I love to create curiosity in my home, as when I made the jars I liked people to come in and ponder what the jar scenes were about along with other things that I made, or an object I kept and displayed. I liked to here if anyone had a story of their own about would could be happening in the scenes, its a curiosity of my own.
Su Blackwell's work is something I also something I wish I had done,(which I have put on another post) because of the intricate detail in her work. She really knows how to set the scene and tickle your eyes with the cute lights she pops in her miniture paper house's and lamps! I'd be interested in doing something along the lines of 3d cut out's from paper too, to put in a jar...Im intruiged by all types of 3d work, but Su Blackwell creates magical pieces that grab my attention big time! It's exciting to think what she may do next.
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