as promised - two for the price of none

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