Thinking about an essay at the moment. I am trying to write about key elements of black and white image making and so I put off reading to do some drawing.....I did notice how at one point the buildings were a lighter tone than the background hills but as the sunlight got brighter the tone of the buildings got much darker than the background. I thought this was interesting and then read about monets haystacks and how he painted them in different lights, and what this then created. It made me think how we perceive things as having a colour that is constant, but actually this is a fallacy and it is always dependent on the light and reflections around.

Have not posted anything for a few weeks but I have been working hard, on structure and story telling....however this is not producing images for my blog but have a double page spread, that I think is getting there. ( I will probably continue to tweak for a further hundred years. I am finding that illustration is a time absorbing activity). Happy Easter x

Another day done.....

So it has been slow progress this term with many wrong turns. I feel now that I have made my fourth dummy book, I am slowly going forwards. 

Battled with a dip pen and lost, decided to use watercolours instead.

First attempt at mono printing

I have no idea how to clean a roller, washing up liquid did not cut it. I have ended up with a house full of black rags......maybe I need white spirit!

New term.....sequential image ( aka made up stuff in a specific order)

So I haven't posted anything in a looooooonnnnngggggg time. I feel in this case that I can truly blame it on the weather. Bugs caused by the damp weather has caused my house to cease production as I have been up again and again at night with sickly children. Anyway, the kids are now occasionally back in school and hopefully I may get to do the occasional scribble. Fingers crossed.