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After printing a few of my photoshop experiments using Ashleys photographs, I have set to work adding layers of paint and adding texture. By smearing ready mix paint, and distressing the surface using folding, creasing and scratching, it creates interesting surfaces on which I can start to draw.

I added textures using bubble wrap to print onto the images, and pressed images together to transfer paint from one to another. The random nature of this technique usually creates unexpected results and one or two worked out well

layers After printing a few of my photoshop experiments using Ashleys photographs, I have set to work adding layers of paint and adding texture.

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Digital circle scribblings Storm Doris has helped me to make time for some of my digital circle work today. Playing around with layers and colour to develop some of the images Ashley sent me as a starting point.

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This afternoon I have been doing what work I can while coughing and sneezing in bed…mindmaps to encourage my year 11 students to explore their exam themes in more depth. Sometimes they struggle to think outside the obvious, and are rather scared of trying anything new, so this stage is a challenge for them, and me.

mindmaps This afternoon I have been doing what work I can while coughing and sneezing in bed...mindmaps to encourage my year 11 students to explore their exam themes in more depth.

So, updating the blog has taken a backseat while real life knocks on the door, shouts through the letterbox, and generally makes itself hard to ignore. I jest, real life has been very welcome :-)

Hopefully with new digital sketchbook collaborations starting this month, and more time spent on my own artistic dalliances, this will be a hive of activity again pretty soon...at least that is this procrastinators intention anyway.

While in school doing some coursework catch-up with students, I tool the opportunity to do some painting as developments from my sketchbook

more… While in school doing some coursework catch-up with students, I tool the opportunity to do some painting as developments from my sketchbook

Easter hols doodles

A few doodles in mum and dads garden

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I started the sketchbook in January, looking at maps and The Boyle Family and my own photography of derelict buildings. Ciara responded with some really lovely loose prints and collages, creating simple hand drawn maps and images of travel and buildings.

This got me thinking about the ideas surrounding ‘home’ and location. About how we move around throughout our lives. I’m sure it is no coincidence that this theme is on my mind a lot at the moment as I am preparing to move house. The drawings and collages I created in response play with the word ‘destination’ and the visual plotting on a map of places I have lived over the years.

I have purposely tried to avoid my usual favoured techniques of digital manipulation and typography, instead to try and work more in mixed media; wax, paint, ink and layers of scratching and drawing. As I have been completing most of the sketchbook at school, many students have been asking lots of questions about the circle, and are keen to try out the techniques for themselves, which has been great.

Now the book is ready to be sent back to Ciara.

March sketchbook with Ciara I started the sketchbook in January, looking at maps and The Boyle Family and my own photography of derelict buildings.

Jo started our sketchbook with a lovely monoprint of a peony, which I scanned and used as a starting point for some drawing. But then I went off on a slightly different following my trip to Rome during half term…

February sketchbook with Jo Jo started our sketchbook with a lovely monoprint of a peony, which I scanned and used as a starting point for some drawing.

Januarys sketchbook with Ciara

Its always a struggle to start a new sketchbook for me. I have lots of ideas but find it difficult to commit to one, and also keep in mind that someone else needs to be able to get enough from it to be able to respond. After lots of deliberation (and tea) i decided to go out with my camera and see what interested me. I love working with textures as a starting point, and on my walk I found a…

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New start

Just signed up for @sketchbkcircle 2016 :-)

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