As a little going-to-bed wind-down.

Unfortunately I haven’t yet been able to discover how to rotate it on the iPod…

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So this is a slightly inaccurate portrait of my travelling bear, Gerald. Looks like a great tool – perfect for those days where one has an unexpected 10 minutes but no sketchbook!

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I felt the time had come to finally work up my “Guardian of the dumb idea” doodle into something a little more official. Woollyjitters says he looks like a trout playing golf. I don’t know that he’d take very kindly to that. At any rate, I’m fond of him.

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The horrors of this week all got too much for me, so after spending the morning finishing reading Murder on the Leviathan I decided to give myself the day off and spent the whole afternoon on the couch, listening to music and messing about in my journal – I completed 6 entire spreads! Plus added a bit to a few more. I don’t think I’ve ever done that much in a session ever before. Definitely feel better for a little random creative thought, although the headache is as bad as ever.

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For this week’s listening list page

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to liven up the rubbish drawing i did when in france. it didn’t work very well so you’re not going to see it, but hey, it’s the effort that counts, eh?

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Without its attendant aphids which I seem unable to persuade to leave it alone.

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Yay! Played around in Photoshop with layer styles and custom shapes (creating my own) and I’m rather pleased with the result, oh yes I am *preen*. You’ll be seeing it online soon enough – hopefully by the end of the weekend!

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I know it looks like I’ve been slacking off big-time, but the truth is I’ve been being manically creative left, right and centre – drawing, walking, listening to music (my new composer/group for the month is Radiohead) and reading books. Not to mention accidentally getting myself employed again, which has been a big contributor to the silence.

So, a bit of a summary:

• Finished reading Danny Gregory’s ‘The Creative License’
• Read a surprisingly fascinating and inspiring book on creating sketchbooks for textile artists
• Have started reading a book on assorted watercolour techniques for painting landscapes (but will be useful elsewhere too, of course)
• Done a bunch of drawing, including a capsicum, a sketch of the Thames at Hammersmith and a pair of mackeral fillets, the last two of which I also coloured with my watercolour paints; the first with my coloured pencils with which I am still totally in love.
• Went for a couple of walks, covering the next section of the super-long walk across London I am gradually working my way through.

See? Not slack at all… really!

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Spring has been springing upon us early, so I went for a lovely long walk in the park today, where I came upon numerous trees surrounded by carpets of purple and white flowers (some sort of bulb. I can’t be more specific than that). Not a great drawing, but it was nice to just take the time to do it.

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