Valentines

I know it's late, but I just wanted to upload this wee doodle I did for valentines. Cupid sure did well this valentines. I spend the weekend with lover boy eating lots of yummy food, ice skating and considering how very strange the film 'her' is. 

Pastel Strands

This year I've been determined to start drawing more. The other day I got locked out of my boyfriend's flat and spent the day doodling away in Costa. I was drawing the back of the girl sitting in front of me. I guess that is kinda creepy, but I find that I need to look at things to get proportions right. Anyway, I've been experimenting with gimp and how to turn my doodles into digital creations. After a couple of hours playing with the tools I've turned my sketch in Costa to this graphic girl with pastel strands in her hair.

Pen to paper

Writing a letter first thing in the morning is a lovely way to begin the day. It gets me in the mood to be productive and cheerful. A few months back my mother dearest sent me up a little parcel full of goodies. One of which was this writing set from Paperchase. The little animal sketches are so cute and it all has a beautiful woodland feel to it. In the set comes 10 sheets of white and brown paper, tons of woodland creature stickers and 10 envelopes to pop your stamps onto. The brown paper is my favourite so I'm saving that for some super special letters. This year I'd love to send a letter or postcard once a week. When I get letters I jump about like Harry when the owls went full force of the Hogwarts delivery. Usually letters I get are mundane- from the dentist or bank. The world should write more letters. It's so wonderful to receive a fresh envelope telling you that you're thought of instead of a summons to pay your vet bill. 

Quick Sketches

Just a few instagram photos of some sketches I did this week. One of my new years resolutions is to be more creative and draw more. They're a bit rough but just practices. The first one is a quick sketch of an outfit photo of Rebecca 'The Clothes Horse'. I've been following her for years now and her outfits always inspire me. 

Because reading matters...

I'm a complete bookworm and I love it when people reuse books to make art. I remember my art teacher at school assigning a class to come up with literary art by folding the pages. When all the books were put onto the wall it looked pretty amazing. I've never seen any literary art quite as detailed as these sculptures though.  They were found around Edinburgh in libraries and left by an anonymous artist 'in support of libraries, books, words, ideas'. If you get the chance to go the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh anytime, go check them out (and then have a coffee in The Elephant House). I'd like to try and recreate my own book sculpture of Peter Pan but I'm not sure it would turn out so well.