It feels strange being back in the flow of things again after christmas, but good strange. There feels to be a lot of pressure now we’re into Unit 3 of the course, good pressure, and I’m seeing just how far I’ve come with how I approach my work after experimenting so much in units 1 and 2.

Before, I used to struggle to know where to put my focus which really had an effect on my motivation, now I see structure forming around the choas and have discovered where I want my attention and energy to flow each day.

I created a pattern strip out of card for the scrolls, first using an unsewn piece of canvas see what different widths looked like rolled. I decided I like 10cms width and added on 4cms for seam allowance to the next piece.

My seams aren’t as neat as I’d like them to be as I’ve had some time away from my sewing machine, but I’m happy with how it’s going, once I have these made I will begin creating colour palettes and very very rough ideas of what I want to paint. Currently my idea is abstraction that expresses the feeling I get from five different ‘doomscrolls’ on five different scrolls. Whether I use embroidery or writing is yet to be seen.

I however don’t want the abstraction to feel rushed or to have speed in any way. I want these pieces to feel physical not only in their state but to feel laboured in someway.

Yesterday evening I did a two hour Life Drawing Class online with The Royal Drawing School, it came free with the Drawing and Theory course I’m starting on Thursday. I haven’t done life drawing in a long time and regret that, it was really fun and I have a lot to learn. I’m very excited for the course, a full day of drawing and learning every week for 10 weeks. It’s bound to make me feel humbled which again is what I’m looking for currently, I want to come out of the other side a different person and thinker the way I see myself changing and morphing over this MA. I’m hoping it’s going to inform my practice within my fine art and illustrative work too.

I’ve been playing around with acrylic in my sketchbook. An interpretation of the sun and energy fields, lightening, nature at it’s most powerful.

The life drawing class had me accidentally dusting paper with charcoal, so I turned it into whatever this is. I quite like it. As Jonathan said, I seem to work better when I’m quick and intuitive, I think it overcomes my overthinking. My hands get there before my brain does.