Pens

Here are my favourite pens. I like wine-red the best.

Doll Parts

I have had the flu for the last couple of weeks so not much got done. I did, however do some on my doll for the Totem exhibition. The two long things are the legs and the odd shaped thing is the start of a body. And there's the rest of my wool too. I am hoping to finish the body this week and maybe start on the arms. I am not sure how she'll all fit together in the end but I kind of like it how her body became more shaped as I worked. This wasn't really a conscious decision, but I think it helps to show that the doll is supposed to be female as now she has a definite waist and hips and looks like girls are meant to look: fertile. What does this mean for me in relation to a self portrait? Probably something to do with the creativity and conception of ideas that are later given birth too. It's a slow process with this doll. She takes time because I am using quite fine wool and a compact stitch with a small (3.50mm) hook. Ah well, she'll get there in the end.

Starting again

Hello. I've decided after spending a week teaching high school students how to make zines that I really should get on with my own comics again so today I went shopping and got some lovely new sketch books, yay! I was a bit influenced by the fact that Sarah H. and Leigh showed me their sketch books this week and like Sarah, I thought I should try to move onto something bigger than the A5 art diaries I've had in the past.
I've also become rather irritated at my myspace blog thingy lately so thought I'd start up a blog here as well because it seems a bit more reliable. I am, however notoriously bad at keeping up diaries, blogs and the like so I'll just have to see how it goes...