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mono print recoloured on Photo shop
Very pleased to say I got excellent marks for my Digital Design module and also for my Material Cultures essay - both gained good encouraging constructive feedback and this is a welcome confidence boost especially as my dissertation is looming in what feels like the distant future but will be upon us before we know it. 

I have been working hard on my next interiors assignment, getting my drawings into photo shop and cleaned up so I can continue playing with placement ideas.  There are so many drawing ideas and ways to execute them.  I was really pleasantly surprised and pleased when I scanned my mono prints in and just did a little tiding up as I quite liked the texture the surplus ink gave - I think these designs will lend themselves to being abstract prints and potentially some back ground prints when I have had a play around with colours.


Its been half term for schools - us hard working art students don't get that luxury but I still found time to have my lovely girls come and stay for a few days.  I was the usual mad chaos three extra people bring into a small house especially three such untidy manic persons.   Its short lived though and worth every spilled drink, sticky fingers, three loads of washing in three days!!!!   Our little legs never stops - constantly on the go making us endless imaginary meals on the toy kitchen and for some reason this time banishing us to jail on a regular basis!!! Her big sister is showing serious blossoming as a true creative spending time on the sewing machine and drawing nonstop.   We went out and fed the Llama at the local cafe and played endless games of alphabet hopscotch in the garden.   They were quite useful as we exploited child labour and had them run some energy off cleaning the van (Dr Fred had to go over the bit they missed). 


My daughter and I almost managed so quality time together - even though this in the first instance meant we had to go to the supermarket to escape - although we did get a wander around town later in the week. 

Its really nice to have the family visit and the house feels very quiet and empty now they have migrated back to Leeds.  No excuses not to get on with art studies, so next I am looking at the work I did in a colour and styling workshop, not my finest moment.  These were large scale paintings done quickly using styled still life to draw from - using any medium to hand as long as it was colourful.  Now colour I'm fine with but I'm not a painter - I'd like to be - but somehow the paintbrush does a completely different thing to what I expect it to!!!  However - undeterred I have scanned in the rather ridiculous colourful scrawls and again had a little clean up and play around and there is something quite naive and charming in places (small places) that I think might translate further down the line!! 

hand rendered sloppy painted and pastels candlestick, scanned, isolated, layered with a little bit of mono print added for more texture - all in Photo shop. 


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