aw bums! - i wrote this blog about 2 weeks ago and forgot to post it...what a numbskull!
anway....indeed, i did upload my drawings for both july and august's iamconsumer at the start of september in a one-er - woo!
last week (actually 3 weeks ago now!) i had to deliver 4 examples of my art to a church in the west end at 7.30pm and leave the building for an hour and a half while the works were judged - seeing the long list of names in the lady's hand who ticked my name off i realised i had been the very last person to arrive, eek, never a good first impression is it, being last to arrive?
but, instead of wondering around biting my nails and humming and hawing over what may or may not be being discussed i decided to go to the supermarket and get food to take over to eat at my partner's brother's flat in partick...
in my mind's eye i pictured some veggie burgers in sesame seed buns with salad and relish was exactly what was called for in the circumstances, but could i find a veggie burger? no, unfortunately not, but what was even worse was that there was an old lady who smelled really really badly, gawd bless 'er, really really really overpoweringly badly, no word of a lie, and so much so, that i had to run away as soon as she came near...... but she kept wafting up and down all the aisles constantly, so my shopping navigation was all to pot!
in the end, a decision to grab some very cheap raspberries and raid the frozen pizza and chip section was made and then run like the wind to the till and blow the joint - at which point i realised that we still had to get to the flat, cook the food, eat the food and then get back to the church to pick up the art - ahhh! 'running out of time' time again!
anyway, as it turns out, i managed to make the pizza and chips (not burned nor undercooked, phew!) and we scoffed them before my partner and i hot-footed it back round to the church to pick up the work - mine were the only ones left in the hall, and the lovely lady who had been left behind to wait for me was very generous and kind of spirit, but i was aware that (even though i was actually bang on time for the time i was told to return!) being the very last person to turn up never looks good when you're being 'judged' does it? especially when that's the last person to turn up twice in under two hours!!!
anyway, we removed the work and hot-footed it back to the flat to eat the raspberries and ice-cream - ah, lovely!
so that was last Wednesday (three Wednesdays ago) and yesterday (two weeks ago) i received a big brown envelope through the post and on opening it i was super pleased to discovered that i have been elected an Artist member of the unique and wonderful Glasgow Society of Women Artists! hurray!!!
and.....on Friday night (actually Friday there) I went with my brother and his pals to the Darroch Bar in Gourock to see my uncle's band, the Heavy Metal Kids play
there i was chatting with my brother's flatmate, Tony who was organising an event for last night (actually last night!), get a room in the Brunswick Hotel in Glasgow and asked if i'd like to contribute....i said yes of course, and then spent 6 hours on Saturday and about 6 hours on Sunday hand-drawing a wee animation to play on a tv in one of the rooms.....hand cramp!!!
the animation is only 10 seconds long and features a fox sleeping and waking up to the sound of a meteor shower (drawn by Innes) in the middle of it and then going back to sleep again - the 'theme' i was given was DISCO, so the idea for the animation came from the fact that there was an actual meteor shower on Friday night (which i missed as I was watching my uncle's band, but which Tony saw as he was outside having a snout at the time) - i felt this meteor shower must be sort of like nature's own disco to the native wildlife......
anyway, so although currently the fox in the animation doesn't currently dance to the meteor shower, he just wakes up and sees it in this version, this animation will hopefully be extended to about 20 seconds and incorporate the original impetus of the fox having a boogie! and i will of course share that with you once i have uploaded to vimeo....
it's nearly october, so i'll be blogging again pretty soon, so till then,
toodle pip
xxx
Monday, 24 September 2012
Monday, 6 August 2012
(in)voluntary experience
my it is late in the year - i apologise!!!
i have been severely distracted from blogging it up! i have been doing my drawing, there has been no slack there...
just not really felt like sharing my experiences of late...but now seems like a good time to reflect and share, so i hope you enjoy and can join in and add comments too....
i have managed to almost (NB - almost!) put the whole of iamconsumer project up on my face book page - it runs from the start of 2009 until the end of June this year - so, yes, that does mean that it's August and therefore July should technically be up there too, but it will be very soon, I just couldn't face the 30 minute warm up of my decrepit old pc (10 years old and still going - all be it very very very slowly!) - i will make the effort at the end of August and get both months up simultaneously, forthwith, i promise!
here is a quick highlight, linking to one drawing from each month i've been working on this project...with added memories!!!
january 2009 - this is the day after my friend's Shona's birthday, for which a bunch of us were up in Aviemore celebrating
february 2009 - this is a large stack of cat food, one of the usual suspects in this project
march 2009 - this is a big shop day, complete with the price of everything
april 2009 - i like this page for several reasons: firstly, i got the date wrong - for some reason i still thought it was march, but my friend, who is actually called April, has corrected me and put it a note to say it's her birthday! secondly, because i features the dvd volver, which coincidentally i watched last night, for the very first time!!! wow!
may 2009 - ok this one features the day i bought the sparkly silver glitter resin toilet seat which still adorns my bog at home and some floor paint and plant food - nice!
june 2009 - this is my shopping from when i was at the Annecy Animation Film Festival - i think this was the first time that i had gone there with other folk i knew (Jess, Claire, Ulli, Steven and Scott) - it was a fantastic festival, great fun, thanks guys x
july 2009 - this features a tea towel in the background which i gave to my friend Lou for her birthday and which i bought in the Collins Gallery, part of the University of Strathclyde's campus - i went to this gallery last week actually and discovered it had been closed down, which is a great shame, it had some brilliant exhibitions in it - anyone know why it closed?
august 2009 - this one features kitty litter, another usual suspect in this project, but also 8 bottles of beer...
september 2009 - i chose this one simply because it is so weirdly laid out - it's funny, most of my drawings consist of me trying to find space on the page o fit things in - for some reason, on this day, i obviously decided there was another way to approach drawing altogether!
october 2009 - wow, this is lots of things! bought on a trip to London to visit my Uncle John and other friends
november 2009 - i like this drawing because, it must've been one of the few occasions when i'd discovered i had no book with me to draw in - yikes! what do you do then? ah, draw on something else and stick it in the book after of course, phew! this was in waterstones in Edinburgh - i'd been through to visit my trainees and ended up running too late to get the off-peak train back to glasgow i think, so was wasting time dinking and eating cake, yeah!
december 2009 - lots of goodies to make christmas presents with! plus dinner for me and the cats :)
january 2010 - ah, this one just reminded me that i used to scour the charity shops for classic paperbacks which i would then redesign and hand-draw a new cover for and give away as presents - i still have a few of these, i should put them up on etsy or something....
february 2010 - this shows what i bought for my mum's birthday - i've no idea why i hadn't actually seen her on or at least closer to her actual birthday, but there you go - only 2 weeks late!
march 2010 - this one shows how difficult it is to record purchases when out at social functions, ha ha! that and it's tea and scones! luckily it was a meeting with Heather and Evy for c/o:minx, the first all female group of comic artists i was involved with (and still am!) good work girls! thanks for not eating or drooling on the scones before i got them sketched up xxx
april 2010 - this one is round about my first week or so working at Once Were Farmers - i went out and had a top treat from pret - oooo, check me!
may 2010 - this one features the male grooming kit i bought for my lovely partner Innes's birthday - he still uses it, so that's good!
june 2010 - big shop day!
july 2010 - terrible to admit it, but this features paint that still lives in my kitchen unopened!!! i did use the one on the left in this drawing in my living room, but the one on the right, no, sorry, not yet....
august 2010 - not a very good drawing i apologise, but again, time constraints - this mug was a birthday present for my boss Will at Once Were Farmers - i was sneakily drawing it under my desk before i gave it to him, ha ha!
september 2010 - i remember this day included a trip to Paisley for their Open Doors Day - the 4 rhubarb pies were eaten by Innes, Sinc, Allan and myself in front of Paisley Abbey as Allan was doing a Pie & Abbey project, ha ha! the link to Allan's blog for this is here.
october 2010 - this was a day trip to Edinburgh - i think Innes and I were through to drop off something at the RSA maybe, can't remember, but i got these brilliant empty cigar boxes by making a donation to save the children collection at the tobacco shop on the Royal Mile - nice! and also, this wig i got for Hallowe'en down the Grassmarket - i remember the woman in the shop said i wasn't allowed to return it if i bought it which i thought sounded a bit ominous....turned out the wig does look bugger all like the image on the front of the box! it does not in any way resemble Dolly Parton at all unfortunately... oh well, you live and learn - if the person behind the counter gives you a warning, you should probably heed what they say!
november 2010 - woops, this isn't actually meant to be up but never mind, it shows the actual sketch book off a treat :)
december 2010 - old habits are hard to break....
january 2011 - ah, what a glorious piece of equipment, no more squatting down in the bath getting sore legs because the over the tap version is so ultra short - what is that all about, why is it so short?
february 2011 - this is pretty regimented drawing - it's funny how my drawings change like the weather...
march 2011 - this was my birthday, so here you can see the shoes i bought and also the sweeties and bottle of lambrini i bought to take into the cinema - i went to see that Simon Pegg film with the alien in it, Paul, but was disappointed i'd already seen ALL the funny bits in the trailer already, hmmmmpft!
april 2011 - this image has quite a strange snaking composition - it also features the bargain priced MDB shoes that have made me fall over on a number of occasions - they are not for running for buses in, no!
may 2011 - this is Innes's birthday - it features good food and some mixed nut called 'ding dong'!
june 2011 - it's a creative time of the month, what can i say?
july 2011 - this one features a musical cow toy i bough for my friend Mark's new baby boy, aw!
august 2011 - this was the day i had an interview in Edinburgh at the Skills Academy - it was a really big day for me as i really wanted the opportunity, but unfortunately i was not successful on this occasion - boo!
september 2011 - 1st day in Slovenia celebrating Innes's 40th and enjoying the Graphic Biennial - great days!
october 2011 - this was the second last day in Slovenia where many presents were bought for friends and family back home
november 2011 - kitty litter and kitty biscuits - just exactly what my kitty likes!
december 2011 - down in London on the last day of the year - those cakes were superbly scrumptious and bought at a small cafe/patisserie called coco-maya - YUM!
january 2012 - things purchased in China town in London town - i do so love going away places! this time Innes and I were down for a wedding...
february 2012 - St Valentine's Day - what better than a good veggi-sosage roll and a trip to the theatre? we went to see the Davenport Brothers at the Citizens featuring Gavin Mitchell amongst many others, great!
march 2012 - double milk!!! arrrrgggghhh! it's even drawn in a dark corner! i've drawn an awful lot of milk in the past few years, you'd think i'd be good at drawing it, but i think it's the fact i can't really bear to look at it anymore that makes my observational skills dwindle and shrink back and therefore so pitifully dire! sorry!
april 2012 - it's Easter! time for lovely presents all round - a chance to celebrate something and get away from the intense film project i was working on at the time for GMAC
may 2012 - the day before Innes's birthday and we are in Edinburgh buying comic books, yeah! this page features one comic that has two front pages, so i drew both sides - one side is drawn by Gillian Hatcher and the other by Adam Smith, both good friends - i have to say it's quite a weird experience trying to copy an image one of your friends has drawn, let alone two! but it's an experience worth having for sure - go do it now!
june 2012 - this was part of a trip to Loch Lomond to celebrate Mr Allan Miller's birthday - i seem to have just bought some seeds...how strange!
that's it for now - hope the comments help flesh out the pictures slightly more
until next month, when i'll be posting up two for the price of none,
xxxx
i have been severely distracted from blogging it up! i have been doing my drawing, there has been no slack there...
just not really felt like sharing my experiences of late...but now seems like a good time to reflect and share, so i hope you enjoy and can join in and add comments too....
i have managed to almost (NB - almost!) put the whole of iamconsumer project up on my face book page - it runs from the start of 2009 until the end of June this year - so, yes, that does mean that it's August and therefore July should technically be up there too, but it will be very soon, I just couldn't face the 30 minute warm up of my decrepit old pc (10 years old and still going - all be it very very very slowly!) - i will make the effort at the end of August and get both months up simultaneously, forthwith, i promise!
here is a quick highlight, linking to one drawing from each month i've been working on this project...with added memories!!!
january 2009 - this is the day after my friend's Shona's birthday, for which a bunch of us were up in Aviemore celebrating
february 2009 - this is a large stack of cat food, one of the usual suspects in this project
march 2009 - this is a big shop day, complete with the price of everything
april 2009 - i like this page for several reasons: firstly, i got the date wrong - for some reason i still thought it was march, but my friend, who is actually called April, has corrected me and put it a note to say it's her birthday! secondly, because i features the dvd volver, which coincidentally i watched last night, for the very first time!!! wow!
may 2009 - ok this one features the day i bought the sparkly silver glitter resin toilet seat which still adorns my bog at home and some floor paint and plant food - nice!
june 2009 - this is my shopping from when i was at the Annecy Animation Film Festival - i think this was the first time that i had gone there with other folk i knew (Jess, Claire, Ulli, Steven and Scott) - it was a fantastic festival, great fun, thanks guys x
july 2009 - this features a tea towel in the background which i gave to my friend Lou for her birthday and which i bought in the Collins Gallery, part of the University of Strathclyde's campus - i went to this gallery last week actually and discovered it had been closed down, which is a great shame, it had some brilliant exhibitions in it - anyone know why it closed?
august 2009 - this one features kitty litter, another usual suspect in this project, but also 8 bottles of beer...
september 2009 - i chose this one simply because it is so weirdly laid out - it's funny, most of my drawings consist of me trying to find space on the page o fit things in - for some reason, on this day, i obviously decided there was another way to approach drawing altogether!
october 2009 - wow, this is lots of things! bought on a trip to London to visit my Uncle John and other friends
november 2009 - i like this drawing because, it must've been one of the few occasions when i'd discovered i had no book with me to draw in - yikes! what do you do then? ah, draw on something else and stick it in the book after of course, phew! this was in waterstones in Edinburgh - i'd been through to visit my trainees and ended up running too late to get the off-peak train back to glasgow i think, so was wasting time dinking and eating cake, yeah!
december 2009 - lots of goodies to make christmas presents with! plus dinner for me and the cats :)
january 2010 - ah, this one just reminded me that i used to scour the charity shops for classic paperbacks which i would then redesign and hand-draw a new cover for and give away as presents - i still have a few of these, i should put them up on etsy or something....
february 2010 - this shows what i bought for my mum's birthday - i've no idea why i hadn't actually seen her on or at least closer to her actual birthday, but there you go - only 2 weeks late!
march 2010 - this one shows how difficult it is to record purchases when out at social functions, ha ha! that and it's tea and scones! luckily it was a meeting with Heather and Evy for c/o:minx, the first all female group of comic artists i was involved with (and still am!) good work girls! thanks for not eating or drooling on the scones before i got them sketched up xxx
april 2010 - this one is round about my first week or so working at Once Were Farmers - i went out and had a top treat from pret - oooo, check me!
may 2010 - this one features the male grooming kit i bought for my lovely partner Innes's birthday - he still uses it, so that's good!
june 2010 - big shop day!
july 2010 - terrible to admit it, but this features paint that still lives in my kitchen unopened!!! i did use the one on the left in this drawing in my living room, but the one on the right, no, sorry, not yet....
august 2010 - not a very good drawing i apologise, but again, time constraints - this mug was a birthday present for my boss Will at Once Were Farmers - i was sneakily drawing it under my desk before i gave it to him, ha ha!
september 2010 - i remember this day included a trip to Paisley for their Open Doors Day - the 4 rhubarb pies were eaten by Innes, Sinc, Allan and myself in front of Paisley Abbey as Allan was doing a Pie & Abbey project, ha ha! the link to Allan's blog for this is here.
october 2010 - this was a day trip to Edinburgh - i think Innes and I were through to drop off something at the RSA maybe, can't remember, but i got these brilliant empty cigar boxes by making a donation to save the children collection at the tobacco shop on the Royal Mile - nice! and also, this wig i got for Hallowe'en down the Grassmarket - i remember the woman in the shop said i wasn't allowed to return it if i bought it which i thought sounded a bit ominous....turned out the wig does look bugger all like the image on the front of the box! it does not in any way resemble Dolly Parton at all unfortunately... oh well, you live and learn - if the person behind the counter gives you a warning, you should probably heed what they say!
november 2010 - woops, this isn't actually meant to be up but never mind, it shows the actual sketch book off a treat :)
december 2010 - old habits are hard to break....
january 2011 - ah, what a glorious piece of equipment, no more squatting down in the bath getting sore legs because the over the tap version is so ultra short - what is that all about, why is it so short?
february 2011 - this is pretty regimented drawing - it's funny how my drawings change like the weather...
march 2011 - this was my birthday, so here you can see the shoes i bought and also the sweeties and bottle of lambrini i bought to take into the cinema - i went to see that Simon Pegg film with the alien in it, Paul, but was disappointed i'd already seen ALL the funny bits in the trailer already, hmmmmpft!
april 2011 - this image has quite a strange snaking composition - it also features the bargain priced MDB shoes that have made me fall over on a number of occasions - they are not for running for buses in, no!
may 2011 - this is Innes's birthday - it features good food and some mixed nut called 'ding dong'!
june 2011 - it's a creative time of the month, what can i say?
july 2011 - this one features a musical cow toy i bough for my friend Mark's new baby boy, aw!
august 2011 - this was the day i had an interview in Edinburgh at the Skills Academy - it was a really big day for me as i really wanted the opportunity, but unfortunately i was not successful on this occasion - boo!
september 2011 - 1st day in Slovenia celebrating Innes's 40th and enjoying the Graphic Biennial - great days!
october 2011 - this was the second last day in Slovenia where many presents were bought for friends and family back home
november 2011 - kitty litter and kitty biscuits - just exactly what my kitty likes!
december 2011 - down in London on the last day of the year - those cakes were superbly scrumptious and bought at a small cafe/patisserie called coco-maya - YUM!
january 2012 - things purchased in China town in London town - i do so love going away places! this time Innes and I were down for a wedding...
february 2012 - St Valentine's Day - what better than a good veggi-sosage roll and a trip to the theatre? we went to see the Davenport Brothers at the Citizens featuring Gavin Mitchell amongst many others, great!
march 2012 - double milk!!! arrrrgggghhh! it's even drawn in a dark corner! i've drawn an awful lot of milk in the past few years, you'd think i'd be good at drawing it, but i think it's the fact i can't really bear to look at it anymore that makes my observational skills dwindle and shrink back and therefore so pitifully dire! sorry!
april 2012 - it's Easter! time for lovely presents all round - a chance to celebrate something and get away from the intense film project i was working on at the time for GMAC
may 2012 - the day before Innes's birthday and we are in Edinburgh buying comic books, yeah! this page features one comic that has two front pages, so i drew both sides - one side is drawn by Gillian Hatcher and the other by Adam Smith, both good friends - i have to say it's quite a weird experience trying to copy an image one of your friends has drawn, let alone two! but it's an experience worth having for sure - go do it now!
june 2012 - this was part of a trip to Loch Lomond to celebrate Mr Allan Miller's birthday - i seem to have just bought some seeds...how strange!
that's it for now - hope the comments help flesh out the pictures slightly more
until next month, when i'll be posting up two for the price of none,
xxxx
Monday, 23 January 2012
Welcome to 2012!!!
yes it started 23 days ago already, i know! there is so much i need to fill you in on, which i will do very soon i promise, however, in the mean time let's look to the future when you, yes YOU!, could come and holler abuse and hard questions at Gillian and myself at the GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL on Thursday 23rd February.......
details here..... Women in Comics
YIKES!
xxx
yes it started 23 days ago already, i know! there is so much i need to fill you in on, which i will do very soon i promise, however, in the mean time let's look to the future when you, yes YOU!, could come and holler abuse and hard questions at Gillian and myself at the GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL on Thursday 23rd February.......
details here..... Women in Comics
YIKES!
xxx
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