College times ahead

Well I'm now properly into my new year at college hence the absence from this blog for now. It's been a good couple of weeks with lots of challenges as we're currently doing an intensive section in drawing; something that I've always struggled with.

We've been covering lots of different areas in drawing including starting up our fortnightly life drawing sessions.

A new year of college means a new set of blogs so if you do want to have a nosey at them, you can find them here:

http://funningr12.tumblr.com

http://funningr12-t.tumblr.com

On top of this college work, we've also been asked to complete an induction assignment for Friday. This consists of four minimum size A3 drawings along with two artist researches of which two of my pieces need to be based on. 

All in all, this makes me a very busy person so I probably won't be on here for a little while. Still, I'll try and prove this wrong!

Another puppy comes to play

Well last week we had another little visitor come to see us! 

Mary Poppins who was once called Tilly, came with her family and together we all went for a lovely walk around the Kendal Castle. 

As you can see from the photos, the weather was so lovely! We really couldn't have asked for a better day.

It was so great to meet up with the family. Together we all walked around the castle and then walked to the bottom again for some ice cream! 

Mary Poppins and Jenna are so similar as you can see. Sometimes I even got confused from far away about who was who. But in their personality is where they are so like each other! Anyone who knows Jenna will know what a funny dog she is. It sounds a cliché but I think it's so lovely that we've been able to give the family such a character like Mary Poppins. 

Jenna certainly enjoyed meeting up with her too. I even don't think that Peppa minded that much either!

The Big Reveal!

So this seems quite funny that I'm posting about this on my first day back at college when I actually finished this in the first week of my holidays. It seems odd too that it's taken me this long to take some photos of it but I wanted to take some photogenic shots of it so you could see it at it's best! As we have finally had a nice day here, I thought that I would make the most of that and capture my lovely new cushion outside.

So without further ado, here it is:

As I've said, it's been finished for a while now and so it's become a regular part of my bed. I'm so pleased with how it turned out. I've always admired these style cushions whenever I see them so I'm happy that I finally have one of my own!

So yes, sorry it's taken so long for you to finally see it but I wanted to show and tell it properly. Hope you love it as much as I do!

Hanging with me guitars

Slowly, slowly my new room is starting to get a little bit of my character on the walls now. I showed you the fabric frames I put up yesterday so now I thought I'd show you what's been going on with the opposite wall.

Well, this!

As you can see, I'm starting to build up quite a collection of guitars which were starting to get in the way. The solution: To buy some guitar wall hangings and stick them up! This way not only does it put them out of harms way of a certain little doggy always walking past but it also shows them off in a much nicer way.

It's a happy coincidence that I actually have a series of guitars that go in a near perfect height order. Having bought a travel guitar in the summer though, this bridged the gap perfectly between my fully body acoustic and my beautiful ukulele. 

I think I might have to limit my collection of guitars to this for now! I've also got an electric guitar too so any more in my room and I'm at risk of people mistaking it for a guitar shop not a bedroom!

Oh, and on the other wall around my desk area, I'm also building up a little art inspiration area. The plan is that I'll collect pieces of artwork and build them up. Hopefully this should help my creative juices in some way or another.

Among pieces of artworks, I've also included the plays and performances that I've recently been to. Definitely is a nice thing to look at whilst I'm at my desk working.