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All Stars Performing Arts Presents ANNIE 2017

7th March 2017 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

I recently designed the ANNIE posters, flyers and social media promotional material for the forthcoming summer show by the All Stars Performing Arts school based in West Yorkshire. The show will take place at the Bradford Play House where tickets can be purchased via the Box Office.

Set in 1930s New York during the Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. Annie’s luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas with the famous billionaire Oliver Warbucks, at his grand Manhattan residence. Mr Warbucks is determined to find Annie’s parents. However, the spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie’s search… With its multiple Tony winning book and score, this stunning new production includes the unforgettable songs Hard Knock Life, Easy Street, and Tomorrow. Annie is a show for all the family to enjoy! So don’t miss the All Stars perform it! You can bet your bottom dollar you’ll love it!

Audio Cassette

19th October 2015 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

THE GIFt 2

21st August 2015 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

Been mucking around with a couple more GIF experiments.
They are always fun to put together. These ones are probably too image heavy, but I quite like them all the same.
They may take a while to load due to this.

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The Butterfly Effect

29th March 2015 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

The truth is, one thing leads to another.

The Butterfly Effect #1

The Butterfly Effect #2

Spectrum

2nd March 2015 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

SPECTRUM

The trick is to be one!

Spectrum

Salendine Nook High School – ‘I CAN’ Street Graphics Project.

7th August 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

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In 2013, Salendine Nook High School won the Guardian Newspaper’s ‘School We’d Like’ competition and was awarded £5000 in prize money to revamp the Blue Tunnel, which is a key linking walkway between different buildings in the school. See the initial post from The Guardian… The Guardian – Salendine Nook: graffiti art project transforms old walkway.

Creative Art Workshops

I was approached by the school in the summer of 2013 and was asked to facilitate a creative project consisting of a series of workshops based around the title ‘I CAN’. These workshops began in autumn term 2013 and ran through to March 2014.

The initial workshops explored the history and culture of street art and graffiti and looked at the myriad of artists whose work adorns the street of the world’s urban spaces. Particular focus was placed upon methods, techniques, colour use, image placement and characteristics concerning each individual artist’s approach and style.
We looked at everything from the huge typographic scrawls and intricate lettering styles of graffiti and the continued development and evolution of graffiti culture, to Wheat Paste posting, the Knit The City phenomenon, Banksy, The London Police, Shepard Fairey and many more.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

The creative workshops were designed to produce a range of strong graphics, which were either hand drawn, painted, developed from photographic elements, made using collage techniques and indeed a mixture of all these modes. Strong emphasis was placed on different drawing techniques designed to loosen up the creative process and produce an unexpected quirkiness in the resulting graphics.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Students also explored the use of the light box to trace images in order to develop quick and strong graphic styles and to experiment with composition. There was also an emphasis on the significance of mark making, constructing textures using paint splats, printing with inked bubble wrap and other interesting found materials.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Sponged ink marks and small hand drawn elements like arrows, swirls, cross-hatching and all sorts of shapes and patterns were created in the exploratory process.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Out of the mass of graphics that were produced in the workshops, the students started to get a real and definite idea about which images they wanted to use in their final artworks.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

The imagery was then scanned at high resolution and prepared for layering and colouring using Photoshop CS6. This allowed the creative process to be further investigated resulting in the impacting and beautiful graphics that were produced in the student’s final pieces.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

The project was a wonderful journey of creativity from beginning to end and a lot of fun was had along the way.

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

Creative Art Workshops

I think the resulting artworks speak for themselves.

Creative Art Workshops

Check out the Guardian article here… The Guardian – How street art can boost learning and community engagement in schools.

This was a super project commissioned by the Guardian and funded by Zurich Municipal.

Beep Beep

26th March 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

I want one of these little cars.
They look like they might be quite a lot of fun to drive.

BEEP BEEP

The GIFt

25th March 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

I have been having some fun messing around with animated Gif’s.
I think they still have their pace in the grand scheme of things.Good fun and quick to create!

I will post some more soon.

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‘I Can’ Project – Salendine Nook High School, Huddersfield.

5th March 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

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Emerging artwork and graphics from the ‘I Can’ blue tunnel project at Salendine Nook High School, Huddersfield. There are some fabulous images being created, both in the form of digital graphics and hand drawn illustrations. I’m working with a great set of students who are producing some outstanding artwork in this urban street art regeneration project. More to come soon…

Creative Art Workshops

Let There Be Afro

15th February 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

More creativity with my new graphics tablet.
I’m slowly getting used to how this great bit of kit works.

Let There Be Afro

Etheridge – Illustration Portrait

15th February 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

Here is a commission that I have just finished.
These portraits have many significant messages hidden within the artwork.
This one was great fun to do.
Artwork printed as a giclée print onto a box canvas.

Etheridge - Illustration Portrait
FiandCanvas

Just Bea’

10th February 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

This is a quick tablet drawing/illustration of my little girl.
She watches me like a hawk when I am doing anything arty or creative.
We have been doing some artwork together which I will post up at some point.
She’s really rather good too.

EMELBI - Just Bea'

State of Mind

28th January 2014 By EMELBI Leave a Comment

A positive state of mind makes all the difference!
Keep it positive. Keep a smile. Keep being creative.

State of Mind

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