Excitement & nerves

www.sonispeight.com
This site represents what has come out of two years research.
Which is exciting that people can see my other work but is scary because I've been working toward this point for so long.

August WOOP!

It's the first of August which means I only have 26 days till I hand in all my Masters work... fingers crossed my book comes back from the printers in time.

I love August it's a time of year where I like to hatch plans. I'm thinking of what I'll do after the course is over - lots of self promotion perhaps. A holiday - I'm thinking maybe Venice as I've always wanted to go. Some fresh new pictures for the shop, and some doodles towards expanding my portfolio, and catch up with all my friends and family who I've neglected this year

But right now I'm sooo busy - 26 days to go and this one is half through already... got to go.

Sunshine and shadow animals

It's hot, hot, hot!
I don't normally cope well with this weather, I more the sort of girl to sit in the shade of a big tree sipping cocktails rather than sun bathing. However I love the sunshine right now because it's perfect for creating new shadow animals, this time with paper cut so they're easier to recognise.

Weekend

At the weekend I went to Bristol, it was a gorgeous sunny day. I love Bristol, I've spent many a happy weekend there, walking through the streets, eating by the river, it's fab!
I got a few helping hands to cast shadows for me using some Victorian diagrams. They were harder than they look, they're supposed to be animals... can you tell what they are?

I have much tinkering to do

I am so busy at the moment, apologies to all my friends I just don't see anymore. It's nothing you have done I am just stuck tinkering away with shadows and paper and ink and well general mess that will eventually (I hope) become a more coherent final body of work for my MA... eek!

I can't believe it is almost over, I still have so much I want to try out. Here are some recent efforts:

Where did June go?

Does anyone know where June went? Did anyone see it leave? Time's going so quick! Should I be worried about this?

I have been sending out promotion and concerntrating on the Ma work and occaisionally enjoying the sunshine. I didn't notice the days sneak by and then all of a sudden it's July!

Here's a little more MA stuff:

All good

I've had some lovely feedback about my website, thank you, I've started to send out a little mailpack. I can't bring it upon myself to be too flashy but hopefully some new people might take a look at what I do... and maybe even like it.

The Aoi Symposium was a fab day out, very motivating. It was great to hear the tale of how the pop-up Persil add was made by Justin Moore and team.

I was paricularly in awe of Si Scott and John McFaul both of whom are incredibly tallented and inspiring. The main message i got from the day was if you love what you do get out there and do it. Does that make sense? It does to me.
They were both so enthusiastic about what they do, it almost made me think 'what on earth am I doing just sitting there listening to them, I should getting on with chasing jobs and self promotion'.