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A homemade reward system for my students. When they do well they earn a fish. I love seeing the look on the child’s face when I tell them it can also be a ‘flying’ fish. Some kids will roll with it, while others insist that all the fish should remain underwater.

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The fish are drawn/painted on watercolor paper and their shapes are cut out. Scrabooking ‘glue dots’ are added on the back of the fish. The painted background is covered with a clear plastic sleeve. 

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A gumball reward system for the kids. As a reward they get to pick a gumball colour to put in the machine. They often ask for black and brown gumballs, which I hadn’t thought of making!

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A small watercolour portrait of the couple, a gift for my friend’s wedding

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A baby panda playing with his grown-up panda friend

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T is for tttt..#Tiger, a giant unimpressed #watercolour Tiger!

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Vector drawings of broken umbrellas, a cheeky element of a branding campaign I did for a made-up company ‘The Art of Failure’.   

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Thank you @blackflirlarping for translating my drawing into an image description! I went to type it up for @deaflepuff but you beat me to it. You did a great job of describing the illustrations.

I took a class about deafblindness, and I am quite moved by the strength of the individuals with this conditions.

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A rough sketch in watercolour pencil of the ceilling of the Baitur Rauf Jame mosque in Bangladesh. I was intrigued by the numerous small circular openings, scattered about like stars, to let in light.

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While visiting the #Baitul Rauf Jame mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I did a quick sketch of a wooden chair. Forget the chair, the space itself incredibly spiritual, built harmoniously with humble material (local brickwork) and elegant light wells. Worth a visit or at the very least an image search.

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Still life in action

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A prosthetic and orthotic still life. Featuring a symes prosthetic (without the foot) and an AFO. 

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A pencil drawing I did of a cross section of a prosthetic leg

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A pattern made on illustrator with simple shapes. The design is based on Islamic art, except the real thing would be geometric and mathematical

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Pelvis bone sketches 

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Lemons. A few sketches of lemons, done as part of an exercise to create 10 different images of an everyday household object. Iteratively creating and trying different mediums and techniques is a great way to generate new ideas and approaches. Having created something physical leads to further ideas and a more fluid thought process.

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A quick humerus I sketched using charcoal on watercolour paper .