Getting Busy On The Zine....

This is what my desk is looking like this morning

full of notes, and scraps of paper

and half sorted pages for the zine I am writing about how I make my art

I have most of it sort of organised

and have a lot of it written

albeit in chicken scrawl that could be hard to understand

but I am figuring it will come back to me

and it has been a fun process so far

it has been all the best bits from those years of teaching art

without all the yucky stuff that makes you question your will to live

like syllabus, staff meetings, marking and  writing reports

not to mention I get to write it in pyjamas

wins all round really ...

I have started the illustrations

and have a good plan of exactly what I need to draw

and a pretty good idea of the layout

though I know myself well enough to know that the layout will change pleanty of times yet

but all the stressful bits like deciding what to put in and what to leave out are done

and the now really really fun stuff begins

So these are little sneak peaks of some of the finished drawings

I wanted to get a couple done to set the style of it

and these are just as I wanted them

which means I am so ready to jump in and get busy

exciting stuff

of course it does mean that the ever growing mountain of part finished work

may continue to be ignored

but this is just all too exciting at the moment

The other excitement of the last day or so has been my post going up

for the When Artists Cook series

that I take part in over at Dion Dior

I enjoy being part of it and I the painting that I did for this post

is now one of my new favourites

I worked a bit bigger than I have been lately and I love how it turned out

might be time to work on that scale more often

after I get to some of those part finished works I have shown you in the last few weeks done

and the canvases

and the zine

okay so maybe I will be working larger in the new year

bloody hopeless I am...xx

Linking up with both Sunday Sketches

and Art Every Day Month

Links to the last posts are here as well...

Biscot-tea ...

Tarts ...