Share Your Heart: Hobby Craft announced a competition for the Valentine's season, challenging craft-makers to share their creations. This submission could be ANYTHING so long as it featured a heart somewhere in it.
Since I was already making spring dolls for the shop window display (see PPP blog), I made a pink Valentine's pixie that could be used for this submission and then displayed in the shop window (two birds, one stone). I used fabric BOUGHT FROM HOBBY CRAFT and made her a little heart-shaped chocolate box using air-drying clay. The challenge asked submissions to be posted to social media using the hashtags 'ShareYourHeart' and 'HobbyCraft'. Hashtags look so tacky and childish but it does encourage Instagram users to track and find new artists, so hopefully this will also drive people to my page.
Valentine's day is stupid and all about commercialism but it is a sweet gesture to 'treat' those you love, thus we bury our souls in chocolate. So I made a sickly-sweet doll holding some goodies. I hope people don't perceive this as my work being shallow and surface-level. There's no real concept for this other than 'Valentine's Day'. With more time I could have made a scene of characters buying presents/making presents themselves (MORE MESSAGE, MORE OF A PURPOSE - TELLING PEOPLE TO GO AND MAKE THINGS), but I do really like these images. They could have been better but since it is not a substantial brief I didn't want to spend too long on it.
I also submitted one of these photos to the Hobby Craft 'Make of the Month' competition, a separate brief... I asked whether these two competitions were related and was told that they are individual but artists can submit the same work to both to double the chances of winning.
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