Since 2015, Connie Pennisi has successfully completed various Diploma units at Melbourne Polytechnic including drawing, printmaking, illustration and creative practice. During this time Connie has also been busy practicing and experimenting various printmaking methods and techniques, especially using linocut and relief printing on a variety of papers and surfaces.
The visual images of herbs with their own symbolism in various mediums are present in her work this year. Her current project provides an insight of how plants and the natural world can be valuable and beneficial to humans. This discovery has led Connie to enrol in the Advanced Diploma of Creative Product Development. This year, Connie intends to create decks of cards based on herbology. She hopes to continue developing and applying techniques learnt over the years and follow the valuable mentoring advice this course provides.
In 2018 Connie trialed acrylic, gouache and oil for the first time resulting in choosing gouache and acrylic as her favourite medium. This year the aim is to trial other mediums and explore further watercolour and inks mediums and if they are a faster medium to create colour thumbnails.
Mainly this year is dedicated to developing media techniques that will assist her in designing her deck of cards which is the goal after graduation. This semester she has completed the first six designs of the future deck. Connie will also be use traditional techniques including printmaking such as Lino cuts and screen printing in second semester. The end goal for Connie this year is to complete 6 herbs in different medias and techniques that will be digitally printed to show an insight to the final product of the future.
You can contact Connie by email at: connieannepen@gmail.com
Instagram: connie_created
Mother Callistemon
I have used this year creating life drawings to adapt this to my project with the concept of relating a plant to the human body in a spiritual sense. The image was my first trial in watercolour techniques which led me further to research this medium for the purpose of to see if it works as a faster method.
Lavender
Used watercolour, acrylic and pencil. Purposely done on A4 to allow boarder around the A5 image inside. This image can be reduced for the final design if chosen.
Peppermint
Media trial for this was watercolour and pencil
Peppermint Lino of Green Awagami
Trial media using Lino cut using Black Graphic Ink on Green Awagami. An image of Peppermint and its matching symbolic images for one of the oracle cards.
Herb 'Thumbnails' 1
Herb 'Thumbnails' 2
Herb 'Thumbnails' 3
Herb 'Thumbnails' 4
Herb 'Thumbnails' 5
Herb 'Thumbnails' 6
Herb 'Thumbnails' 7
Herb 'Thumbnails' 1-7
6 herbs designed were used purposely to trial medias such as watercolour and ink. How the background and contrast would look as a deck and which colour would look and to find the fastest technique to use for my future thumbnails of more images. I made an artist book purposely to display the thumbnails with a peak to show what is coming in second semester. My future artist book will be more expandable as my visual diary so I can continue adding future thumbnails of the herbal card series in an illustrator’s designer’s way.
Happy Land
This is a Fact or Fiction entry of the character Costa Georgiadis an important figure of today’s planet health warriors. Done in two of my favourite mediums such as the gouache and wax. During the process of this piece I often smiled and giggled which is expected from this character.
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Advanced Diploma of Creative Product Development
Code: CUA60415 Cricos: 090497B
Code: CUA60415 Cricos: 090497B