Gluten Free Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

175g Dove Farm Gluten Free Self Raising Flour
175g softened butter or margarine
175g caster sugar
4 medium eggs

Food colouring at least three different colours


Recipe

Preheat the oven to 170.c

Soften the butter

Add the sugar, mix the sugar and butter together

Add the flour and eggs mix the whole mixture. Gluten free flour needs lots of mixing to add air to improve the cakes rise.

Separate the mixture into bowls  , mix in food colouring to make a blue, pink and purple batter, keep some batter the original colour.

Spoon the mix a bit at a time into 12 cupcake cases, this is how to make the tie dye effect.

Pop the finished cakes into the oven,  check after 25 minutes.

Allow to cool.

If your lucky you might get chance to frost and decorate them, though eaten slightly warm they are yummy!

bake off cupcake

pusheen cake

Pencil Illustrations for Pusheen cupcake design

Attempted Squirrel Walkcycle

In short....I am so rusty!!! Am I completely sure this is where my heart lies? So I learned a lot about a new piece of software I tried out, but I realised perhaps this summer I have a lot to learn.....once I've conquered that essay ...sigh

Squirrel Drawing

Squirrels, squirrel everywhere ....

Nothing is making me feel more ill than the thought of the looming essay I have to write, I spend so much time thinking about why I do the artwork I do, its grown into a one woman existensial crisis.
Who am I?
Why am I so infactuated with drawing pictures of cake! why do I watch so much baking on television?  How do I contextualise the notion of britishness, mary berry and excessive food shows on tv?

Food to me, is such a huge part of the human psyche we eat to live, its no surprise that its the one thing any two people can have in common. I started to think if my aim this term is to make a baking video for youtube, what would be my brand , my logo, what one animal , epitamisies that britishness, that bake off, spun onto the masses......avert your eyes ..if you blush easily XD

It helps that the humble squirrel is also my favourite animal, what's not to love about these mischevious tree dwellers?

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Anatomy Study

Baking with Children, there's a reason, Mary Berry doesn't bake with children.

Tilly and Teddy were with us for the whole day, so I whipped out the camera, and tried to make cupcakes to keep them entertained (stress levels rising)

Few lessons learnt, gees I'm heavy handed with food colouring. Children in pyjamas, plus baking, might as well of given them pure sugar and nerf guns.

Back in Time for Tea,

I loved the original of this TV show and after being advised to research cookbooks and cookery shows, this seemed a good way to visit changing British attitudes to food and just how much food can reflect our cultural identity.  This series focuses on a Northern Working Class Family, which really changes the dynamic, it makes you realise that things do change, and you can never go back, but the status quo is always a balance of the old and the new conjoined together, one never replaces the other but values begin to meld together in each generation or even timeframe. The same is true of myself, I will always be the sum of my influences, my location, my race, my gender, even the time I was born. Where new experiences may add to my overall identity, they never replace the underlying building blocks, merely alter them slightly each time I consolidate the new experiences.

Making a Baking Video

So we got set the rather open brief, Exchanges, my first thought sprung to filming something with my niece. She had just found out she is affected by the same hypermobility syndrome as me and her mom, I thought maybe a Documentary, but when I spoke with Tilly I realised she wasn't ready for something along those lines. So I took it back to the drawing board, Tilly loves Youtube, and like most preteens she aspires to be one of those legendary 'YouTubers' herself. 

I can't say I'm immune to youtube either, though for me youtube is where I go to binge watch baking shows and get DIY guidance, ( ..and Dr Pimple Popper *cough* XD) though can't forget Disney shopping hauls! Okay so maybe I love Youtube too, but actually make content designed for youtube I've always been too terrified to try.

Pick up a Random Book.. read page 20

I ended up taking this book out the library, I was on my way up to the art books, when I stopped at a shelf on the ground floor, it was full of child psychology books, bit of a difference right XD.

A Conversation with a Stranger

Another Task was to have a conversation with a stranger, this I actually managed to complete before I left Uni that day. Talking to Strangers is my super power.   The right hand page, is from a conversation I had with Denise, who I've known since my BA, I loved the comparison between the two conversations and the similarities.

Watercolour and Waterbrush.

Pink Things

We was asked to collect/find 10 things of aspecific colour. My favourite colour is Pink! My item,s were...

• my desk lamp
• the tie of a guy waiting at the train station
• a cocktail glass
• a box of pink hair dye
• a feather boa
• a pink power ranger vinyl figurine (DORBZ)
• my throw off my bed
• a toy sofa (that my dolls sit on)
• a lady's coat, who was waiting at the train station
• my new wardrobe doors (because I climbed on my desk this week and had to rebuild it o_o)

Playing with the balcony images,

I cut up the individual parts in Photoshop, to try getting a 3D effect betrween the layers. I couldnt resist to add a cartton of my niece on the balcony.

My After Effects Skills need practice, I played with animating a camera through the individual components.

Walking as a Methodology, after the Beast from the East

It never use to snow that often in the UK, I feel like I've seen snow in the last year more than I have the rest of my life.

When asked to bring in a recording device I brought in my camera, it's starting to dawn on me, that this isn't my normal choice, yet since the switching of methodologies, I find myself taking more photos than usual.

The bad weather did reveal some awesome patterns on the floor, from peoples feet to the texture and patterns built into slabs.

The ~Underpass is creepy at the best of times, look at all the shadows.

Walk into the light...!

This beautiful shade of red growing in the trees,

More of the Red Branches

Love these Balconies

Would I have noticed this?  Without the Snow?

You know what my living room needs? No, no it doesn't.

I feel like this is the moment when Cal couldn't believe her eyes, what a bizarre shop.

This graffiti artist, dude or dudette please! more of this beautiful text-based work!

this is from a gym advert, but I found it hilarious, cropped as a positive slogan poster.

Love the different lines and planes here, this is the point we couldn't work out where everyone went.