Business Cards

Front side

Back side

In preparation for the show, I thought it woud be a good idea to create business cards for people to take away with them.

I wanted it to be simple, without labelling myself. No 'contemporary artist' or whatever. Just my website and one of my more successful paintings, it won't exactly lead them to believe I'm a florist (my mum thinks I should have at least put artist)... The image I chose also helped to link the painting that was down the corridor from my space back to me. The colour orange is there to link it back to my Degree Show, in the hope that they would remember my floor.

Thankfully they arrived in time (I paid enough for them to do so...) and I recieved a free, handy little card holder, so I'll be able to keep a few in my bag when I go out. The only challenge now will be getting the courage to speak to people and hand them out. The next issue was finding a way of having them on display without making people bend down to pick one off the floor or have a table in the way. The answer was to search for 'business card wall holder' on Amazon and find one suitable. Then all I had to do was attach it to the wall with velcro and a bonus is that it can stand on its own so I can put it on a table if I wish.

(Images from designing my own card on Vistaprint).

Studio Preparation.

Preparation for hand in. We went into the studios today, on a Saturday! I know, dedication right? It was actually quite enjoyable and didn’t take as long as I thought it would, especially with the extra help. Me, Ros and Clive (oh and the boyfriend) cleared out our spaces and got rid of any blu tack, nails etc off the walls and re-masking taped a few bits. Then it was time to fill in any holes and smooth them off. Next job, roller and paint. It was so much fun! And seeing as I had most space now, I had most to paint. I got a bit messy and did the floor. Luckily though, we’re apparently going to paint that as well.

Once I had done my area, I let the others do theirs and I began to fiddle with the arrangement of my sculptures. I think I know what  need to do to get them ready and sorted for wednesday. Clive also helped me to roughly measure out where my paintings will go on the wall. There will be a surprise in store as well, but I’ll let you in on that secret later. I reckon we'd make good decorators, possibly an alternative job choice, if we never make it as artists? It was also good bonding time. Hahaha!

I am looking forward to it all coming together and being finished. I know what I need to get done, mainly book work for the Art Talks and visits. I’m debating whether or not to quickly sort out a sketchbook for my projects, although really, my blog has turned into my sketchbook. I just hope it will be accepted. Maybe I’ll print it off?… We’ll see.

Getting On With It.

Tutorial, brushing, gluing and painting. We had our group tutorial today, it’s not the worst it has been, but when she said she preferred my first two paintings, I felt like it might has well have been said that I started off good but went downhill from there. I understand where she came from, I know my work doesn’t tend to stem from anything, other than the fact I like colour and shape, and I need to create things that enter my mind, either for them to be a success or just to get them out of my system. Any who, I had marshmallows and I was happy.

Oh, I bought some gold paint, this also excited me greatly! (Small things amuse small minds, hey?) I then proceeded to get a brush and brushed all of the loose sand an

d grit from my larger sculptures. Doing this my favourite part, if I could do that forever, I would! Due to my (more) sandy sculpture still crumbling, I decided to make up a water/glue solution (mostly glue) and coat that in it. I was planning to work on it somemore, however it took longer than I expected to dry properly.

Then I moved on to the most recent sculpture I created. With this I wanted to experiment with combining the colours, so as to maybe in a way, represent the project coming to an end and bringing all the work together. This was possibly a mistake, but again, I had to see whether it worked or not, so I wasn’t left wondering. I quite like keeping different shades of colour together, this probably, in my eyes, looks better than he mixture of colours. Ah well, at least I learnt.

You may be surprised to know that I shall be entering the territory of the studios tomorrow, on a Satuday! Crazy or what? A few of us will be clearing our spaces and painting the walls in preparation for the hand in.