Er..update

I haven't really been coming to visit DA a lot recently, terrible I know! But, I haven't given up the art life, in fact I feel more and more involved in it...Although my art has gone in some brand new directions. I've been doing a lot more moving stuff. Toys, paper dolls, and currently in the works is a paper theatre which i'm charting the progress of in my blog here:
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I'm also selling my work here:
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I'm not sure if DA like self-promotion when they sell prints on here? I don't know, if it's a problem please let me know.

Amazingly enough, though I haven't posted much to deviant it *has* been a creative period. Here's the quick version of the story. I read Julia Cameron's 'The Artists Way', I started doing the excercises and everything changed! (I can't reccomend the book enough for anyone who's curious for change, or just to see what excorcising their artistic demons will do)

Ultimately, my art was always so planned and executed to within an inch of it's life that it became a source of anxiety. I had to have everything planned, and the art - well there was something so stiff about it. I tracked it right back to an artistic ogre from my past. What I thought of as perfection was fear of getting it 'wrong'.

Anyway, I started doodling, and the doodles became sketches and everything loosened up a bit. So, I didn't know whether to post those things here because this new work - is quite different actually and isn't the same standard of detail.

I started selling the sketches on Etsy ([link]) Which is where most likely all of my art will go now as well as going into my scraps area here.

Anyway, I hope you're all very well and enjoying the holiday period

xx

Catching up

It's been almost a year since I actually finished a piece, and now finally, a finished one! I've been trying other mediums and restlessly flip flopping around different subject matters. Until eventually I went crawling back to the ink pot. Anyway, hopefully i'll pull my finger out and start producing again,

I've just got back from a 2 week holiday, lots of fun. First I went to Holland where I took part in the European Kyudo Federation Seminar [link] . Kyudo is a fairly rare activity outside of Japan, but every year people from all over Europe meet up, train and take their examinations. It was fabulous, lots of hard work, wheat beer and trying to remember french lessons. (I know how to say 'Your ass is mine' in french now, which is always handy).

Then I went to visit my family and also meet a brother and two sisters I have never met before! It's a long story as these things usually are. It was good fun though, they took me to the pub and I was humiliated at pool. Ahhh.

Other than that I came back and saw that things don't seem so happy at DA right now. Some of my freinds have put their gallery in storage, and I think this is a good move, a peaceful protest and display of community spirit. I have also put mine away, i'm not sure for how long.

Gallery storage

Anyway, other than that i'm trying to move away from stippling for a while and do some monochrome pencil work for a bit, see where it leads.

Anyway, here's some pictures i've been admiring recently

*CuDubh




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=micahsherrill

My first journal entry! First of all a big 'Thank you' to for buying me a 3 month subscription! Very kind, he has some great pieces in his gallery which I recommend seeing (my favourites are the monochrome). And also , a brilliant pencil artist who has introduced me to other really great artists.

On the art-work side, things have gone fairly slowly because of work, but i'm almost done on a new piece.

An online e-zine ( [link] ) has featured me this quarter along with Keith Thompson ( [link] ), whose work is a brilliant mix of pencil and digital.

Anyway, that's all for now!