a little bit of drawing

oh, at last...something to report that's not christmas-y and not for etsy (not yet, anyway) a big achievement, i feel! this is a little drawing inspired by a piece of vintage hand blocked wallpaper i 'borrowed' from a wall in a shop i once worked in (before i get arrested for theft, in my defence, it was practically hanging off the wall...my boss was leaving the property and it was being re-decorated anyway. my only sorrow is that i wasn't around when they stripped the room of it ;) it feels good to be doing something other that worrying about getting something made and listed on etsy everyday.

kaleidoscopic doodlings

take one piece of paper, an assortment of black drawing pens, add a two hour stint of 'miss marple' on the television, mix it all together and hey presto! 'kaleidoscope' is born. at the risk of sounding smug, i'm really pleased with this...maybe some more digital prints in the making...? (they will of course be much better than these, the white is very blue, and as you can tell i'm no whizz on the photo editing thingy.)

drawing

i did an 'art foundation' course after my 'a' levels a million years ago, and i used to avoid life drawing like the plague with hundreds of ridiculous excuses; y'know, a bit like avoiding games/gym/p.e. when you're eleven years old. (my gran's just died, my games kits was swallowed by a raging angry crocodile, etc...or was that just the girls at my school? anyway, i digress.) to get into art school, you had to prove you could draw, and i well, couldn't. somehow, by fluke, i managed to produce one reasonably decent drawing of an old chap in the buff and wonder of wonders, i got in. probably more on the strength of my textile portfolio, but i like to think that the life drawing of 'walter' tipped the balance. my problem was that i was petrified of making a mistake, i used to freeze up in front of these enormous sheets of paper and end up drawing crappy little awkward stick figures with no perspective. now i'm not saying for a minute that i'm any great shakes still, but sheets of white paper no longer make me freeze up with fear. that's actually quite liberating, and if i make a mistake, who cares?

busy, busy

not a lot of time to do much work this weekend, or time to post for that matter. yesterday was manic; kid's party until 5pm, dashed home, had a quick bite to eat, throw me dancin' shoes and posh frock on and off we flew at 7pm for a surprise 30th birthday party. too many gin and tonics later, i was air-guitaring to bryan adam's 'summer of '69'. how embarrassing. anyhoo, the above pic is more progress on the doodle i've been, erm, doodling. (sorry, the top one has come out a bit rubbish) hope you all had a groovy weekend!