December Update

Hi! How have you been? Hopefully you have come here from my FACEBOOK PAGE (click the highlighted writing) and have seen that I am illustrating for Standard Issue UK regularly. It's a fab online site, written by clever funny women and about the issues we all think about but rarely talk about. You MUST check out the hilarious horoscopes, and the arts section is top notch. Everyones super lovely and I am continually astounded they let me anywhere near it with my drawings. Follow this LINK if you want to check it out for yourself.
The degree is going well, with me getting 72/100 for first project, which is enough for a first if I keep it up. Only 11 more assignments to go to test that theory. I do love it. The venue exasperates me sometimes, and getting used to new tutors is hard, but I'm absolutely happy to be there.
Lets have a picture catch up

My tools

Labrinth at Vevo Halloween

Collection of Manchester Staffordshire Pottery (john Rylands)

Darlington Station

Miniature Slum House in Library

Atmospheric Town Hall

Central Library

moths in my sketchbook

Contemporary Art Practice Degree Live Drawing

Throwing us in at the deep end, we had the privilege of a real live model in the studio on Tuesday. I have never done live drawing before and had to struggle not to put stuff there that wasn't there. We of course had criteria. One sheet with 3 or 4 drawings on, then 2 felt tips, then 3, then we could choose a body part and use water with felt tip. Challenging but as always, enlightening 

Here's the best bits

Contemporary Art Practice Degree Assignment Research

Or, a pleasant walk through my local park.
Here I photographed things that I could use to inspire sketches and work for our first assignment
I'm pleased with how they turned out. I took longer than normal and really thought about composition and narration. I didn't want to be invasive to my surroundings, they were beautiful enough

Paper Cutting From Start To Finish

Getting There, Slowly

What a mad week last week was. Blogged about, and then followed by the Rock Star of paper cutting on Instagram. For all the damn hard work I'd been putting into Facebook networking, it was Instagram and Twitter, the 2 least labour intensive sites I am on that tipped me nearer towards that elusive non friend sale. Not that I mind selling to friends, but they do rather not expect to have to pay. This is the life I have chosen, after living the life given to me all these years and I will not give up trying to make a go of it. I've been cutting paper like a maniac, setting myself little goals. At the moment I am trying to list one new product a day on my Etsy store so I show up better on their search engine. Today I am having a crack at some label style cuts I sketched last night. Its a good job I love it.

Paper Clay Pendants

Once I'd started I couldn't stop. So I made a collection of odd beasts. Love.