2012- bits of sketchbooks

 Bergen, Norway

Lawrence Hill, Bristol UK

The twelfth month...

Some designs for greetings cards, to be sold at various Christmas fairs around Bristol over the coming month...

Catching Up

This blog entry is a bit of a mishmash of assorted recent(ish) things I should have posted a while ago.

Below are two of my images from the Animals exhibition at Grounded last month- a really nice space I was pleased to have my work hung in.

Girl's Best Friend

Untitled

 A rough charcoal drawing of Todd doing one of his favourite things-napping.

A pretty brown seagull in Castle Park, it just looked so lonely.

Another Illustration for Great Expectations

"I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling,  comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were"



An Evening Well Spent

Having not attended any life drawing for about a year,I decided to go to the Life Drawing class at Tobacco Factory and was very glad I did. This weeks session was a lot of fast drawings which suits me perfectly. Found it very relaxing to draw very freely, almost without thinking about it. Will definitely be going again.

ANIMALS

On Saturday morning, I hung my work at Grounded Cafe in Bedminster as part of a month long exhibition with Chandra Almeida, Dave Bain and Alex Bertram-Powell.

The evening event will be next Monday 10th October with live music and nibbles.

Pictured here is Lovely the cat (Carmen Almeida responsible for ridiculous name) napping on a suitcase next to my framed pieces.

What are you Waiting for?

After waitressing full time for quite some time, the repetition is starting to get to me.

Constantly find myself rummaging in apron pockets for something or other,then forgetting what I was looking for in the first place; when sketching out this image it seemed to me that it acts as a kind of metaphor for the way I sometimes feel- looking for something (more rewarding, more inspiring) but not knowing quite what.

Miss Havisham

"The bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes"

I have just finished reading Great Expectations by Mr Dickens and absolutely loved it. Never really read Dickens before, so hesitantly started the book, thinking it might be a bit heavy going.. but actually couldnt't put it down. The characters are so vivid, particularly the bizarre Miss Havisham, an old woman who was left at the altar on her wedding day, and thereafter never wore anything but her bridal dress, stopped all the clocks in her house and blocked all sunlight from entering her rooms.

Found out that a new film adaptation is coming out next year, with Helena Bonham Carter as Miss H, so that'll be worth a watch.