So it's taken me quite a while to notice (approximately two years in fact) that I can highlight words in my posts using different sizes, colours and boldness of font. This is alarming me slightly, I am not generally that unobservant. Anyway, the worry now is that as with all new things I discover and like I will go completely over the top using it.

Things I have been enjoying recently...

1. Pen and ink line drawings - are giving me a new lease of life at the moment.

2. Photoshop - has finally succumbed to my bleeting cries of frustration and allowed me into its inner sanctum by revealing the occasional bit of functionality to me via some kind of strange osmosis. At least this is the only way I have of explaining why I have finally and suddenly worked out how to use the damn thing. I have now decided it may actually be quite a good way of doing things after all and would prefer not to be mocked for my long standing luddidity on this point please.

3. Memory doodles - are something that my amazing friend and brilliant artist Clare Tottem and I started doing when I was down in Oxford visiting her over New Year. After a visit to the Ashmolean Museum we thought a good way of remembering some of the things we had seen that we liked would be to do silly little drawings of  them when we got home. I'm liking this idea so much now that I want to do it for everything.

Things I have not been enjoying recently...

1. Screenprinting - has me a bit stumped at the moment and I'm realising that spending the best part of a year preparing for a big screenprinting project without actually spending any of that time trying out techniques on smaller projects was a bit of a large error. Refresher course here I come.

2. The cold - is determined to hang around a good bit longer it seems and it makes me want to cry and sit in a hot bath all day.

3. Money - or lack of it, is not condusive to a good night's sleep.

'Is this the real me' - line drawing  © Sharon Whyte 2008

Comments

[MadeleineS]

Hi Sharon

Good to see you blogging again - I can't seem to find the time.

Hope you enjoyed Oxford and didn't run into any over-loud blues rock bands in pubs like the Bullingdon Arms or Fat Lil's http://www.flashharryenterprises.co.uk/Business/servicesbusiness/cats.htm

Anyway the point of this comment is to say that I have an unused screenprinting kit that you can borrow if you like. It's only about A4 size and is really for t-shirts so there's no registration frame. It could be good for sampling though before doing a weekend a printmakers workshop or where ever. Give me a call and we can decide what to do.

Cheers
Madeleine

[the sapient pig]

Thanks Madeleine. That sounds like it could be fun. I'm going to start going down to the workshop on a Thursday evening though as they do screenprinting help that night and I reckon all I need is a bit of a jolt of the old memory and a lot of practice.