twentyeightdrawingslater - part 3

hey hey hey, how good was last night?!!

well, if you were at the opening at Market Gallery for Telling Stories i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did - even though it was really really busy, hot and sweaty!

it was so good to see so many friendly lovely shiny faces of folk i know, but also incredibly cool to actually meet Victoria Evans who organised the 28 drawings later escapade that this blog entry and the previous 2 are focused on - oh yeah!

so, here as a 'catch-up-penny' session is my past 5 days work {uh-oh, slipping into a 'big' catch-up there due to exhibition opening last night - it's my story and i'm sicking to it!}....

Tuesday 8th Feb - drawing of a girl flying with three foxes

Wednesday 9th Feb - drawing from 'iamconsumer' of a box of 80 regular teabags £1.39, two boxes of 20 green tea teabags £1.26 each, 2 pints of milk 86p, a 'hot cross bun' loaf reduced to 99p, a packet of ready salted crisps 44p and a packet of tomato ketchup crisps 46p, two fancy-assed pot noodles 69p each, a tube of toothpaste for £1 and four packets of webbox cat delight meaty sticks at £1 a pop...

Thursday 10th Feb - oh man, i just realised that since i started a new journal for 'iamconsumer' on 7th Feb all my dates have been wrong coz i have consistently written Jan instead of Feb - whoops! ocht well, not to worry...let's see, 10th of Feb consists of one seeded finger-roll at 37p...

Friday 11th Feb - drawing from 'iamconsumer' of a pot of carrot & coriander soup £1.29, a cheese roll 31p, a galaxy chocolate bar 59p (i pretty much never buy chocolate bars for myself, it's weird, i just took a notion, even though i balked at the price - jeesoh!), a can of ginger beer £1.30, a can of mango juice £1.30, a box of kitty biscuits £1.25, pack of six cans of cat food £3.96, one refried bean & cheese taco £1.49 and one butternut squash quesadilla £4.99....

Saturday 12th Feb - i've been a portrait model all day since 10am-4pm, so felt the need to do some therapeutic drawing, et voila.....

tewntyeightdrawingslater - part 2

Saturday 5th Feb - drawing from 'iamconsumer' showing 2 packs of pasta (only £1 each!), 2 cartons of soup (only £1 each!), 2 activia snackpots (buy 1 get 1 free), 1 litre of semi-skimmed milk, 1 box of honey shreddies, and for my poor feet - a pair of insoles & a pair of socks, and... because i managed to stab myself in the hand with a scalpel (aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!) i also bought a tube of germolene & 2 boxes of plasters!

Sunday 6th Feb - drawing from 'iamconsumer' of a large reduced loaf of bread, a tub of bertoli olive spread, 1 carton of soup (3 bought though), a box of filo pastry spring rolls filed with goats cheese and balsamic onion, a box of sage teabags, a bar of olive oil soap, a packet of linseeds, a packet of turmeric and a packet of foam sweeties - having a c/o:minx meeting, hence the lovely food! we're preparing our work for a show that opens at Market Gallery this Friday - eek!!! the show is called telling stories and also features work by David Shrigley and Frank Quitely - double eek!!!

Monday 7th Feb - drawing from 'iamconsumer' of a pack of sugar snap peas (yum!), tub of salsa (very hot actually!), a bag of mandarins (not manda rin!), a bag of oranges, a tub of hazelnut yoghurt (how 70's is that??), 1 pint semi-skimmed milk, a box of kitty biscuits, another pair of insoles (my poor poor feet!), a pair of tights, a pair of slippers, 2 bras and a shirt.....yes, i did go primark crazy!!! everything was so cheap - i got confused - then spent too much - bugger!

twentyeightdrawingslater - part 1

hey there - woooooo! new month, new project - yeah!

and this month...... as well as my 'iamconsumer' project..... i am taking part in 28 drawings later

i have done a drawing every day this month (it's only the 4th today), but i'm only scanning and uploading them today as today is "catch-up-penny" Friday....

Tuesday 1st Feb - a drawing of my 3 kitty-cats looking every-bit the mob of gangstas that they are!

Wednesday 2nd Feb - a drawing from 'iamconsumer' which shows a box of plasters (as i really ripped my heels of in my boots- i'm too used to trainers, my poor wee feet can't cope with real shoes!), a box of surf washing tablets, two A4 frames which were 2for1 at Boots and some flowers (anemones and roses) for my mum's birthday!!!

Thursday 3rd Feb - a drawing of my favourite christmas present - which as you can see is a robin shaped cup - it looks hilarious on top of my telly with my weirdly deformed googly-eyed cactus sticking out of it - it makes me smile!!!

Friday 4th Feb - a drawing from 'iamconsumer' which shows a packet of go-ahead! biscuits, a carton of tomato and basil soup (YUM! all gone now - consumed entirely!), a packet of pitta bread, a pint of semi-skimmed milk and a packet of coffee biscuits (which were only 50p! - bargain!)

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hello 2011 and bye bye 2010!

ah, the new year is upon us - let's hope it's a guid one all round!
it's definitely a very strange time of year - i'm feeling conflict in my brain because i think that i should be feeling full of joy and optimism, but actually i am incredibly deflated and down - is that the post holiday blues, or is that just me?
i'm aware that sometimes this year i will loose confidence, and at some point i will feel worthless, and possibly there may even be times where i am convinced that i am completely talentless...
however, i am still committed to trying no matter what, because - i LOVE drawing! - i LOVE creating images! that's all i need to remember this year.
from now on, next time is right now - and it's right now every time! all the time! no matter what the time! the time is now!
bon chance, mes amis xxxx

yikes, it's nearly here!!!!

hello, the new year is nearly upon us - i can't believe it! it was just hallowe'en a wee minute ago...i have actually managed to miss november out completely from my blog!

well i have actually been busy doing a creative scotland visual arts grant application form and a glasgow visual artists grant scheme application - if any of you has filled one of these out before, you'll appreciate the amount of time you need to invest in making it not sound like complete and utter mindless begging drivel - so, stay relaxed and calm and i'll update you about the outcomes some time next year once the adjudicators eyes have stopped bleeding :)

i managed somehow to have one of my silk/tissue/embroidery portraits picked for the royal scottish academy open exhibition - woo!

it's free and still on till 17th december if you fancy a gander....otherwise, see right for a pic of me with my pic! it's hung in a great position - pretty much straight ahead as soon as you enter the first gallery of the show - how fancy am i?!!!!

i also did a huge amount of prep and spent a very large amount of money for a set of workshops i was due to take this week in glenrothes - unfortunately due to the adverse weather conditions, none of the workshops happened and all events were finally cancelled yesterday late afternoon - what a shame! it looked set to be a great week for the children from fife - hopefully it will be re-scheduled for early next year instead.

it's that time of year, isn't it, where everything seems to be being put off till NEXT YEAR!

not so with the winter craft and music event with butcher boy next saturday 11th december at the mitchell library's jeffery room!!! yes, i will be "MAN"ing the team girl comic stall at some point throughout the day where you will be able to purchase comics, booklets, clothes, cards and delicious cupcakes - ooooo, YUM! for info see this event

right, i'm off to continue drawing my piece for the glasgow project room, for the glasgow independent studio member's show - opening on saturday 18th december, phew! no putting anything off till next year for me....not yet ;)

xxxx

the first frost is here (and snow!)

hello!

well, walking to work yesterday the grass on the hill where i live was still super frosty, even though the sun had been up for a while and i read that there was a big flurry of snow up by inverness too - wow!

this weekend i have my very short, short film 'the possible consequences of one action: part 1 - the end of the world' showing at the hidden doors festival @ the roxy art house in edinburgh - it looks like a totally amazing line-up over the next three days of live bands and films - i'm really really looking forward to heading over on sunday afternoon to enjoy the entertainment! well done genevieve et al, i doth my cap to your stupendous powers of organisation and dedication (they are all volunteers who work in the collective - my kind of folk xx)

i also believe that one of my silk portraits has made it into the RSA open 30th October - 15th December!

wow!

i believe it to be true mainly as i have not received an email asking me to come and remove it from the premises - i did get an email to collect another piece of work as i had entered two pieces - so that's super coolio too!

then of course there is hallowe'en.....

the world's first audio horror movie, 'the dunwich horror', is being screened at the grosvenor on sunday 31st october and so to celebrate the end of the month club is relocating from the 13th note basement to the bright celluloid lights of the grosvenor cafe for the hallowe'en special IX - and as ever, i will be singing my usual spooky nonsense and taking part in some exceptionally distasteful collaborations ....ooooooo!

and then it will be november.......eeek!

xxx

aaaaahhhhhhh it's october!!!!

oh how did that happen already?? BLIMEY!

september went past in an almighty flurry with the opening of TIME TO GIVE UP, a show by Simon Shaw and myself at the glasgow project room on saturday 4th

the show was only on until saturday 11th, after which the sad task of sanding back and painting over began - it is indeed the weirdest thing in the world to spend all the spare time i had either side of my jobs for about ten days going to the project room and hand-drawing onto the wall with POSCA graffiti pens to make what the project room committee termed a "substantial piece of work" only to just paint over it and make it disappear again - it's kind of liberating i suppose and i have plenty of photographic documentation of the making and destroying of which i will hopefully make into a stop motion soon...

so, after TIME TO GIVE UP, i discovered that my work for the big antidote had also been printed by cure studio, down in London, as part of Zineview: a pop up reading room

this event was run by Teal Triggs (Professor of Graphic Design at the University of the Arts in London) in conjunction with the London College of Communication and Thames and Hudson on Monday 20th

i am also forgetting the marvelous Pietro Fortuna exhibition, Glory, at the Tramway that I was lucky enough to be an artist in which took place on Saturday 28th August - that was pretty exciting stuff to be a part of something so large scale!
and then there was the Ironbbratz antidote to Glory, which was an exhibition in IB HQ with the nifty title, Shame - and i think we were all suitably ashamed of our particular exhibits in this show (well at least Mr Smith and I were as they were particularly low quality) - this show happened on saturday 11th.

that's all for now!

ciao xxxx