My Dad

Earlier this week we got some devastating news that our beloved Dad has passed away.  Nothing in the world prepares your for this, and I am not prepared.  I now have to prepare myself  for a flight to Africa - which I am not looking forward to because flying frightens me to death!    And in general I do not like funerals so this is more than a double whammy for me.  I am trying had hard not to think to much about any of it.  

I'm also planning an order of service for my dad which I want to take with so I don't have to try and find a printer there.   Now just trying to go through the motions of Christmas.   

Creating headers

With typography fixed firmly in the back of my head, I decided to create my own typed headers.  I've learned so much about these letters and the history behind them.  Its easy to bang some letters together, its much much harder to fiddle around with the spacing, and I'm not talking about the spacing that our computers automatically use.  I'm taking about using InDesign and making sure that you pull some letters closer together and push some further out, the weight of the letter is also important.  Anyway enough of the lesson .

Summer

This is Summer  and another mixed media image I have created,  she is really nice and brightly coloured.  I've been thinking that I would l love to be able to offer a mixed media workshops teaching this wonderful relaxing art.   Not sure if anyone would actually like to do this though.  She has been created using acrylics, pastel pencils, and collage bits.

Faces

I am having this urge at the moment to paint, paint, paint, when I was at college I was urged to persue my collage work, but really struggled with this  for a long time.  Maybe it was burnout, I don't really know, but I just could not get into it.    So now I am armed with a small A5 sketch book which is so much easier to have around than a big canvas and of course the piece is done in minutes.  This is  my master piece, I am so proud of this one.  It dawned on me the other day just how connected to art I actually am.  I'm doing a two year HND Graphic Designer course and I am hoping that I am going to  be able to put my newly learnt skills to good use and market myself a little better than I have been.  In the mean time I am carrying on with my passion which is creating collaged faces.  Kelly Rae Roberts has truly inspired me.