Bruise Art.

My brain has had an off day... I apologise. Don't judge me. This is nothing important, just an idea (I think that's what to call it).

I got this sexy big bruise last week and each day it's more or less been a different colour. Today, for some strange reason, I have been looking at it a lot and a thought came to me. I should have documented it from the beginning; when it first began to appear. Then I could've made some sort of art from it...

Or would that be too weird? I reckon I've seen worse, although, I guess it would depend what the art looked like. It could be beautiful... But it's not like anything I've 'recently' worked on. I don't know. It's a stupid idea. I'll shh now.

(I'll update this with more images if I take anymore and let you know).

Coffee Shop.

(Left to right: Roz Gooding, Me and Clive Matthews)

For a while now, I have known that I want to get back into drawing and doodling and things like that, but I've also decided that I want to be like one of those people who regularly go and meet up with friends in a coffee shop to catchup, possibly collaborate and share ideas.

However, there's the issue that I don't like coffee, I know they sell tea and hot chocolate etc, although I always tend to think that it's a coffee shop, you have to have coffee (you may have noticed I'm a tad strange, I know). Another thing is I haven't created any work since putting the little exhibition together we did for our final assessment, not even sketchbook work, which I feel really bad about and I don't know when it'll change.

At the moment I am at an extremely lazy stage, because my course has finished I do not go to the studios anymore. I stay in my room and do the same old things day in and day out. Occasionally, I’ll go for a little walk or shopping, but I seem to have lost myentusiasm. I haven't been outside since the weekend, maybe that has something to do with my lack of willingness to do anything.

I guess my whole 'wanting to be one of those coffee shop people' comes from this new isolation that surrounds me. I miss seeing friends and the working in collaboration that we did. It's strange, I've had too much time to think and it could be making me crazy...

Blue II.

Acrylic paint on paper, A1.

‘Blue II’. You may have realised these paintings have got simpler, this would be because they have. Being back at uni and beginning to create work again has been strange. I feel as though my mind has gone to mush over Easter. Unfortunately, my enjoyment for painting is slowly disappearing. I made this yesterday. This could possibly be the last painting I do for a while, but don’t hold me to that, things could change. Most of the time that I was creating this piece, I was thinking that I’d rather be having a nap or drawing, but I had to get it done, I couldn’t leave it unfinished. The relief was unbelievable when I had completed it. I could probably carry on and do a few more of these paintings, but right now I don’t think I could handle it.

Below are photos of stages to get to the final piece: