Art Every Day Month 2009

Art Every Day Month – Day 1: Cornish Sea

1 November 2009

Ta da! Well it may not look like much to you, sunshine, but that, my dear, is a very big step forward. That is the sea off the Cornish coast, storm tossed and filled with fabulous creatures like snakelock anemones, brown velvet crabs and tompot blennies. And mermaids of course. Work in progress; creating oceans [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 2: Turtle steps, baby

2 November 2009

Turtle steps*, turtle steps… that’s what I’m telling myself right now. No need to go mad with Art Every Day Month. No need to go full steam and run the risk of crashing and burning. As long as it’s a concrete step every day, I’m going to be happy. I see lots of other participants [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 3: I’m drawing!

3 November 2009

Woah. There were times in the last month or so when I thought that drawing would be a long, long time coming. I thought there would need to be lots and lots of warming up and relaxing and letting myself play. Wrong. What was missing was simply a case of applying bum to the seat [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Days 4 & 5: The Voice

5 November 2009

It’s been a couple of less-than-creative days, I’m afraid. I’ve had two days in a row working down the coal mine (aka at my old day job) and it’s really wiped me out. Long story, but there are health reasons – as well as my artistic dream – that I don’t usually work there more [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 10: Where were we?

11 November 2009

Okay, okay, I lost a few days there somehow. Man, I really hate those random time-slips that just swirl up out of nowhere and suck you forward without the slightest warning, leaving you stunned wondering where the weekend went. Or is that the champagne? But enough of this levity – back to the molto serioso [...]

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