dotdot: 2011

16.12.11

pin-hole cameras are actually amazing

blurry photographs are actually the best.

22.11.11

12.11.11

nude drawing time!

weekly life drawing class. very helpful so far. good times.

21.10.11

holy cow

we've been working on the edge lands at college. doing some work of my own though.

it's not resolved yet. resolved. ha.

13.8.11

3.8.11

holly wales

i love the work of holly wales. i don't know how she gets such clarity with felt-tip markers.

13.7.11

monotypes

i don't think i'd made monotypes before...they always look a bit on the messy side so i was never drawn to them. they are messy, but the lines are nice.

8.7.11

exhibition

my contribution to the art's complex at canal festival exhibition. edinburgh quay (near cargo bar) eh3 9qg. from 9 to 16 july 2011.

29.6.11

23.6.11

7.6.11

i finally have a grown-up website. it's a start, anyway. all done today, courtesy of being sick. being sick is making my teeth hurt. i recently signed up to a new dentist. on the first appointment, you have to fill out forms. one question asked for my occupation. since i'm currently funding my art habit by making other people coffee and tea, i wrote barista. when the dentist read it, she read it aloud, incredulously. "you're a bah-ris-ter?" as though i was at fault, i was actually a barrister, being paid many thousands of pounds a year yet still unable to spell my profession correctly.

check out the website though. it's clean.

24.5.11

sketchbook

work to get me into art school. maybe.

18.5.11

last day at studio this week :(

phone pictures = small pictures of bad quality. i can't get enough melty goodness.

16.5.11

something new

Ice cream people.

8.5.11

drawing

I was lucky enough to participate in a workshop on drawing by Fiona Michie. The topic was drawing from the imagination. I'm not the most comfortable with drawing, and still am not, but at least I tried! Some of the results: