Sinking Feeling.

"That Sinking Feeling."

Hi there, it’s me again… I think it’s done now… This one too forever to do again, I think it’s becoming a bit of a habit… Roll on going back to the studios in a few weeks time, I can not wait! Hopefully, the flow of work will be better then. I guess the bank holiday the other week messed it all up, I enjoyed it too much. It was lovely, I had a relaxing wash, cut and blow dry, spent time with my boyfriend and his family, went out for a tasty meal (which I wore a dress too!), also, went to london and visited the London Dungeon, Madame Tussauds and M&M’s World! It was a great, long weekend and I loved not having to work. Since then I haven’t achieved much, although I got forced into tidying my room up a little bit at the weekend and I’ve got a few things ready for when I move back to uni.

Anyway, back to the illustration, so yeah, it’s an elephant skull. For some reason I didn’t manage to fit the outline fully onto the page this time. That’s where the title came from. A tad naff, I know, but that’s all I had. This one isn’t overwhelming with cross hatching like previous ones, which I am glad about, although, this time I used more single lines for the detail. It’s possibly not as scribbly as I would’ve liked it, but it is finished. I’ll get round to the next one at some point, I won’t promise anything haha!

Painting Sand.

Painting the sand valleys. Sounds interesting yes, but probably not as interesting as you may think, I hope I didn’t get your hopes up. Today I finally got round to painting the lines I carved out in my sculptures, these ones names are ‘Red Sand’, ‘Orange Sand’ and ‘Purple Sand’. Original, hey? You will have noticed I am not the best one for naming my art work. These names may not stick, but they’ll do for now. I had a really good, I don’t want it to all end next week. There’s still so much I want to do, but I know it won’t happen. I’m trying not to panic.

I started off the day by acquiring pva, a brush to put it on with and a brush now named ‘Sand Brush’ (it’s for brushing off sand - sculptors need these things haha). It felt good to buy something and not have to worry about if I can afford it or not for once. I mixed up a water/pva solution and gave my sculptures a couple of coatings of it, in the hope that it will stop the sand from crumbling much more (I found at the end that this did not help as much as I wanted it to). Then taking a colour at a time and adding a little pva to it, I painted in the carved lines. I took photos of the stages for each sculpture, you can see these on my Facebook page. It was very enjoyable to do and Clive helped with more options for my work set up to hand in.

I have discovered how nice it is to work without my shoes on in the studio (and no, my feet did not stink). I had to do this because I have blisters on my feet from walking loads in London yesterday. I shall hopefully explain more about that at the weekend. Tomorrow I plan to buy some gold paint. I am so excited about it! As well as that, I shall be working on my plaster sculpture I made on Tuesday, maybe it will be another good day.

Camden Arts Centre And Calvert 22 Gallery.

We had a trip to the Camden Arts Centre and the Calvert 22 gallery in London the week before last (15/02/13). As much I enjoyed visiting these, I must admit I rather preferred looking at the art on the street. Especially the giant possum on the side of a building. Possibly the best piece of art I saw that day hehe! I'm not sure the teacher would appreciate me saying that, but oh well. It was also the first time travelling by the overground! It’s like the underground, but over-ground, who'd have thought it?! I didn’t know it existed until planning the journey. Silly me. And there were dogs! So many cute dogs. I wanted to stroke them all. Then to end an already good day, the parents came over to visit and feed me haha! And they brought with them yummy cheesy bread and a cool Pot Noddle mug.

This is a pretty window projection from the Camden Arts Centre. Each section flashed different colours. Definitely my favourite work from there; it was mesmerising. It reminded me slightly of Elmer the Elephant from childhood, because of the similar colours and shapes that were used in the piece.

The mahussive possum I mentioned before! En route to Calvert 22 gallery. Street art by a previously unknown artist to me, until I was informed it is some one called ROA. Thankfully I got told who it was by, otherwise it would have bugged the hell out of me. He has also done a stalk in Brick Lane. The sheer scale and detail was amazing to see. I loved it!

I would have shown you something from the second gallery, however we were not allowed to take photos, which we only found out after my friend tried to take one.