Unproductive next day

I tried to get up early to go to the library to make a start on the essay.

Just didn't get there. Had a bath and fell asleep on my bed for another 2 hours, cuddled up with my dogs and cats. My hair was completely dry by the time I woke up.

I did get to the library, but that was a less than good experience. Not enough books, none of which were available, the only ones that were available weren't much use and two boys decided to have a LOUD conversation at the table next to me.

Went to the public library, which was mercifully quiet and borrowed a couple of books, both immensely useful, and came home.

I visited my sick friend, who feels like a fraud because she is feeling very well despite not being as mobile as she would like. Came home and finished the felted piece I started yesterday. What do you think? I'm quietly pleased with my first ever embellished piece.

And now off to bed again, after a small snack.

Unproductive Day 4

I believe that irony is now the colour of the day.

For an unproductive day I haven't done too bad!.

A collage and now a felt painting too. Not complete, but ticking along nicely.


Much more work to be done on this, especially as its a borrowed embellisher and I will probably have to give it sometime next week. I must have one of these. Soon!

Unproductive Day 3

So the collage is finished. Not sure if I want to add some paint on top, or maybe some oil pastels.



I'm really pleased with how this has gone. I thought collage would take me days. I may start a bigger, more ambitious one and see how that goes.

Watch this space. But only if you don't have stuff to do, obviously.

Unproductive Day 2

So the collage moves on fairly quickly. Here is the next pic with further progress. It's helpful to see it as a photo because I can analyse how it is working and then add extra layers to it without feeling too precious about it.

I'm really enjoying the process and will probably try another one later, on a much bigger scale with a much more complex form. See how I go.

Unproductive Day

Today I have done little or nothing of note. I've been watching TV on the computer, catching up on programmes I missed because I was too busy getting attacked by a large group of youths with snowballs. Sounds funny, wasn't in the slightest. Especially when they opened my car doors and pelted me inside the car.

So I have managed to start a collage, and had a Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels moment when Josh doubted that I could paint on it. Very surreal. Had accents going and the lot.

So here it is so far, more pics to be posted as it progresses, or not as the cs may be. I seem to be starting a lot of things but not getting them finished at the mo. I think I'm not really sure how to finish them off. Plus they look halfway OK and I don't want to ruin them. Or they are really not very good and I can't raise the energy to finish them cos they're rubbish anyway. Confusion about my work abounds.

So today has been about chilling, sort of having a day off and resting my brain before cracking on again.

I think I may be in the realms of self justification of a lazy day. I must ponder.

Monday none day

I've not posted for a while, mainly because I've been busy at paid work and trying to get some art work done.

I've also been out and about visiting friends and doing generalised stuff.

I had intended getting things started and finished today, with lots of ideas on how to spend my time. The problem being that after a busy working weekend I was shattered, had an appointment to go to this morning and just needed a quick lie down after I'd been shopping and organised someone to look after life drawing tonight...............

So as you can imagine, the quick lie down became a long lie down and a bit of a nap. It would have been a longer nap if I'd not been disturbed every 10 minutes by text messages from almost everyone I know. Funny how at the weekend everyone is too busy to text, but as soon as they are all back at work and I have a day off they text me and simply must discuss loads of important things with me. When I'm trying to catch a nap. Hmmmm. I smell a touch of irony.

This is me trying to nap. Photo courtesy of Josh, sometime ago. This is what I look like during a successful nap.

So an unproductive day really, but I am pretty sure the rest of the week will go better as I now feel more energetic and less taken over by work. Sort of a short break before getting on with my other job!

First Page of Travelling Sketchbook

Well I finally finished my first page for the Travelling Sketchbook Project.

I have to admit to a bit of procrastination, as is my wont.

But finally I got over the blank page blockage and completed it.

Here it is, hope you like.

As I complete the pages for the other 9 sketchbooks in the cycle, I'll post pics, as also is my wont.

Can you guess today's word of the day? Wont. Great innit?

There is an Alien Snot Monster Living in My Head

I have spent a week fighting off the mother of all colds. Only the lack of delirium and serious chills has made me not describe it as the flu. During this time I have been trying to get a start on the new painting project at college. I am also attempting to twist my head around the presentation and essay I have to write by 10th March. All with a head invaded by an alien snot monster. Not easy.

Here is a start on the painting and human form project. Let me know what you think.