Hannah Oakes Art

Hannah Oakes/Art Foundation Student Instagram- @hannaho_art

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These are a pair of earrings I made for our Sustainable Jewellery Pop-Up Shop. We had to create jewellery sustainably (aka taking materials we already owned and turning them into something new). I realised that I owned a lot of paper that I never used, so I researched how I could use this. I realised I could make origami jewellery out of this paper, which was simple but still very wearable. I really liked the delicacy of cranes and the simplicity of paper boats. I decided to make the paper boats out of newspaper (to create a sense of nostalgia) whereas the cranes I created out of pink paper I owned. In order to make them more durable, and higher quality, I decided to coat them in melted wax. To attach them to hooks, I bent wire. I really love the delicacy of the final outcome.

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Finally posting about the most recent project (Borders and Boundaries)! Developing ideas for my final outcome. I am exploring ancestral connections in terms of race/ethnicity in order to suggest that we have more in common than we have different.

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Terrific work and important sustainability themes explored in the artwork of Strode Student Hannah Oakes this week. Addressing the plastic pollution issue in her developing graphics work for the ‘Nature meets Art’ pathway assignment.

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Some recent sketchbook work looking into the manipulative yet deadly nature of oil spills/pollution. Hopefully this will culminate in a final graphic design project attempting to raise awareness of this!

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‘Disperse Dying’ Layering shapes to colour to create water inspired designs. I’ve been inspired by pollution and how the natural world and the damaging human world are becoming/have become dangerously intertwined

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Primary Research for our first Pathway ‘Art Meets Nature’

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Drawing hands 👐🏻 I wanted to get back into art by going back to basics- although I do like the way hands move and their expressions :)

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(Reposted from old blog) Started on my new ‘Articulated Doll’ project for the upcoming term (The other picture was a quick sketch I did earlier this year). I am still at the brainstorming stage but am hoping to move forward soon with some new ​ideas.

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My A Level Exam Final Piece ‘Aura’. It took about 12 hours in total to complete (excluding drying time). I was playing with the realistic and the abstract- something which I came to do a lot over the last two years! It’s a combo of acrylic (for the background) and oil (for the figure).

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One of my earlier A Level Paintings ‘Complete’. and my first ever Piece using oil paints.Like my later exam Piece, this one is a combination of oil and acrylic- I used this combination as I found that acrylic created a level of intensity in terms of flat colour whereas oil creates a much more realistic effect. I seem to use a lot of blue tones in my pieces, and really want to experiment with other colours/techniques and styles this year 😅