Little character scenes.

I've really enjoyed drawing characters, creating their personality through their clothes and choice of animal. I'm now experimenting with actual toys, creating a scene within our real world and photographing them, which gives the characters a sense of reality...the next step up from drawing them.

its working.

No pictures.

... For some stupid reason I can't upload ANY photographs of my work onto the blog. This is very annoying because I want to show what I've got going at the moment. I'll just have to try again over the next few days.

I've mainly been drawing a lot lately, thinking up little characters...though i do need a storyline, because once i've got a story I think the characters will just create themselves, whereas at the moment I'm just making up characters which are quite randomly put together. I've always had the idea that I'm developing my ideas to eventually make a big dolls house...but i just seem to be diverting away onto other ideas. I'm really bad at that, I never seem to just stick to an idea and go with it.

I'm still working towards a dolls house..but at the moment I've been making little houses, which i'm setting into a little village..like a borrowers town! BUT i still haven't got a storyline. I don't know what I want my story to be based on, it's something which I'm really really really struggling with. I've got ideas for scenes I want inside the village...but i guess its all just aesthetically pleasing, and a little more depth is needed.

Been some time.

Well I've not written on here for soooo long, it's just been one of those "i'll do it tomorrow" things.

Anyway since my last blog post, I've been busy starting my essay for my impressionism/post impressionism lectures...i'm not really getting into it yet. I've been reading Emile Zola's book 'Nana' which is good reference for my essay, and I'm finding the novel an enjoyable read, It's about prostitution in the 19th Century. I like writing essay's when I'm writing about something which I've got a genuine interest in, and women in prostitution is something which I'm quite intrigued with so it's good to learn about the history whilst I'm writing this essay.

Table Exhibiton.

We had a little group crit again today at uni, they always help I think, because each time we do this it gives me feedback from a new group of people who haven't necessarily seen my work yet. I just spoke about the collaborative project which me and Felix are putting together in the disused building, creating a life sized doll house scenario, and turning it into an event which will exhibit not only the project itself, but also our own separate ongoing projects. Something I'm very excited about, and plan to get it completed by the end of February.

Impressionism/ Post Impressionism lecture 1.

So I had my first lecture last week, I chose to do these lectures because of the lecturer Michael Howard, he's really enthusiastic and shows a lot of passion for the subject, so he's really good at keeping me interested...which I think is pretty important!!

This first lecture was just an introduction for the next term, it sounds really good, and something which I'm generally interested in. Michael is very articulate and he so much knowledge for this particular subject, which I found a little overwhelming to start with when comparing to the short space of time we have to learn everything.

We were given a poem to read by Charles Baudelaire for this week, and although I've read it, I had work last night when we had our second lecture, so I'm going to have to bring it for next weeks instead.

Also I need to get a hold of a few novels, because Michael is quite adamant that to do well on this course, we need to read novels to gain that extra knowledge. I'm looking for Emile Zola novel called 'Nana', it's apparently based on a woman leading her life as a prostitute, the book was written in 1880...I think it sounds really interesting and I'm looking forward to reading it! There aren't any copies in the library so I'm going to order it off Amazon next week when I get paid!