Painting and other news

I have no images yet to put up from painting but I'll try remember to take some tomorrow when we're finished for the day.
So far we have been just using the primary colours to do 'blind drawing' with paint, then doing 'negative space' drawings and also (trying) to paint with plastic credit cards! My credit card one came out... well...we aren't meant to analyze them.....
So in other news.... I entered three pieces into the drawing awards exhibition and one of them was accepted. I'm really excited to see the rest of the exhibition now, so that will be on Tuesday.
Could really have done with a drink tonight after the highs and lows of the week so far but maybe hot chocolate in bed and an early night are for the best.

Inky hands

I finally got all the ink off my hands last night, just in time to go back into the print room to ink them up all over again!

So today I moved my prints, that I did last week, on another bit.
But sure I wasn't able to post the pics I took of my prints last week was I? So I'll put up some of those first.


Ok so this first one is very yellow. But I love it, the way the two tones blend into each other has that feeling I was trying to capture. But its also a bit bland and blah. I'm going to leave it the way it is for now though because I don't want to 'ruin' it by putting something over it that I might not be happy with.

This bluey one has got two shades of blue blending down into white, and it now has a water tower printed over it I think. And another shade of blue...I can't remember now!

 This one has decided to be sideways.... the blue goes at the top though so just tilt your head to the right and it should look ok.... This one was a bit of an accident. I didnt realise the lighter blue background was still so wet when I tried to do another darker blue over the top of it, so when I peeled the acetate off it pulled some of the blue with it. But sometimes there are 'happy accidents' and I think this might be one.

 This is one of my favourite prints that I've made so far. It looks a bit like rain, I think. I'm not sure yet if it feels finished. I don't want to put a big watertower across it but it might need something. I'll have another look at it tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, I can't wait to have another whole day in the printroom. I love it and I never want to leave! And if they make me leave then I will be forced to haunt them!

That week went by a bit quicker than I'd like it to have!!!

Can I have it again please? I can't believe it's Friday tomorrow already :( Then theres only Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and then it's Friday again and my two-week print block will be over!


I haven't been taking my camera down to the print room because well if you've ever been in a printroom then you'll know that it is one of the messiest places in the whole college! But I did take a few snaps at the end of the day today so I will show you some of those in a sec but I just realised I haven't even updated you on what I've been taking as inspiration!

Ok, so do you know that moment when your favourite song starts and you're just waiting for the beat to kick in? Or when you leave college/work after a long day, you walk out of the building, look up at the sky and are content? Do you know the moments I mean?
Well that's the space I'm working on, the breathing-space, head-space, blankness that comes from being purely content, just for a moment.

Well the sky at dusky-twilight makes me feel that way so these are some pics that I took of the sky to illustrate that feeling.
Or rather here aren't some pics! It won't even open the uploader right now so I will just have to try again over the weekend :(

Damn and blast you blogger! Just when I was starting to enjoy blogging you decide to stop working!!!!