It’s hard to think of these when I’m in the throes of the exhibition but here we are! A fun moment before the Thursday’s action! 17th May, 2010. It’s a card too now xx Elise
Sorry about last week’s lack of Mondoodle. It’s a little strange being up in the studio tonight. I’ve been working in the lounge for weeks now, painting of course. I’d prefer to be up here as the light’s so much better but the big canvas made me relocate. I haven’t actually worked on that for [...]
It’s late, it’s dark, the cocoon studio is a clutter of paintings around me and smelling strongly of turps and oils. In my slightly wonky tired state it’s rather nice and very familiar. I think… a link to my past as well as my present as it almost feels like it could be my mum’s [...]
Today’s Mondoodle is one of my favourites. Although it feels like it came from nowhere… today I looked an “Bird” the artists book by Kat Macleod, I sat having a coffee at uni with papers swirling and flapping around me in a vortex of wind, I flew home fast on my bicycle in the cool [...]
On that last Mondoodle. Which leads me to a question. When is a picture finished? How do you know when to stop? Sometimes I know I go on too far with a picture – there are often lots of points when you think – that’s pretty good now, I should stop… I’ll just do a [...]
Just as I hoped, it was lovely to paint again on Sunday at the market. Hello to all the new people I met there! It was a beautiful day. I finally filled the frames on the wall of the rabbit-cafe picture and gave myself another indulgent hour on it this morning before it got too [...]
I love seeing kids when they’ve obviously dressed themselves. Tutus, footy socks, odd hats and fairy wings. The boys do it too, I’m happy to say. I have yet to see a goth couple’s kid but I would hope they’d have access to even more outlandish garb. Brilliant! Reminds me of parties in my uni [...]
On Saturday night Peter and I went back to the Paris Cat. A birthday soiree for me. We caught the tram in and walked through the city. I brought a mounted print of the sketch from the last time we were there… and as a lovely surprise they gave us a beautiful bottle of champagne. [...]
I thought it would be interesting to dissect a drawing, so to speak. This is one from my Moleskines collection, book two. It began with a what should I draw? kind of question, and a suggestion from Peter of a walrus. No more of an idea than that. I pulled up photos from the computer [...]
A funny little sea picture… It’s interesting – this scanned at a different angle to the way I drew it and as I rotated it I realised that the orientation of the page completely changed the scene. So which one to choose – diving, rising, or swimming to the left? Drawn late Monday evening, Monday [...]
