Back In The Studios.

Back in the studios this week - how exciting! I have my studio space now so I am ok. We met some of the new people who are joining us for second year and got told by Michael that we should probably put some work up for our new tutors to see. I've put up plenty of references, did a couple of illustrations and started another two.

The first one completely threw me off, the shape of the paper confused me. I hadn't worked on a rectangle piece of paper for months! I'm so used to my little square sketchbook. It wasn't a great start, it was great to have space and talk to people though. The next one was better and I let myself loose with the scribbles (it made me feel good). I started a new elephant piece on a larger scale before the meeting. However, afterwards I decided to leave it and go home. The next drawing was from a photo Uncle Clive sent me of a dinosaur skull, which I absolutely fell in love with. This is the biggest one of them all, which meant I struggled on proportions, but it's fine, I'm allowed to make it up haha! They'll get finished little by little probably while I work on this new project.

New Baby.

Everyone, meet my new baby! (And yes, that is a dinosaur you can see).

Last night, I got home to find something very exciting waiting on my bed for me... My new camera!!! I felt like a little child at christmas. I dropped everything, sat on my bed and unpacked it all. Packaging was sprawled all over the place! It had to be charged straight away, of course, I was so happy!

It's my early birthday and christmas present and thankfully I got it in time before I go back to uni next week. I even got a tripod, which will be interesting, never used one before. I have it now, which means I must use it... Maybe it'll come in handy to take level pictures of work hanging in the studio. We shall see. I'm looking forward to having better quality photos because of the number of mega pixels (there's still doubt in my ability to take 'good' photos though), hopefully I'll get out more and capture the outside world. Admittedly, I mainly wanted it due to it being a lovely looking piece of equipment, but I was reassured that other aspects were good too haha!

Oooo, I'm unbelievably excited! Just looking at it makes me smile like a cheshire cat - you can tell not much happens in my life...

The Duck Race.

As you know (or may not know haha), I came home from uni for the weekend and this is the reason. The Duck Race (held at Stowmarket, Suffolk). I’ve been the past couple of years with my boyfriend and his family, and I love it. Main thing being: DUCKS! I love ducks (hint hint - anyone feel free to buy me a pet one). It’s always great to see some real ones get in the way. This time it was a mummy duck and her babies. There was a girl shouting extremely loudly, “THERE’S REAL DUCKS! THERE’S REAL ONES!” Bless her, she was even more excited then I was. She reminded of the little girl from ‘Despicable Me’, when she gets the cuddly toy unicorn and says “It’s so fluffy!” I know what I mean haha. The weather wasn’t the best, it was probably because I had my legs out and the sun would rather hide from their whiteness, but people were smiling and enjoying themselves. I’m already looking forward to next years one and of course I had to have souvenirs. I got a stegosaurus dinosaur ducky and argh! A pirate one to go with my collection.