je suis finit!

my final project is FINISHED! I settled with a miniature model of an allotment, voila:

I struggled loads with this project, and whilst i'm proud of this final outcome, it is by no means my best work (definitely not). However... I am proud of myself to have pushed through all of the obstacles I came up against, and to now be standing with a huge summer in front of me, with which I can explore and become re-inspired. I'm pretty stoked about that :).  

KAPoOooOOOOOOOOooooWW SPLASH!!!

today we made mess with a cola fountain..KAPoOooOOOOOOOOooooWW SPLASH!!! (sorry I can't rotate it :S)

medium sized adventures..

wow... turns out blogging is a whole chunk of difficult when you forget your password!! Needless to say, problem solved :P. 

That aside...... i am -STILL- currently working on my "mess" project.

So... i'm often inspired by the little things that crop up in my day, fall into my lap, hide in a bush and catch me by surprise....you get the gist! More often now i'm trying to use these as inspiration for illustrations, or at least to record them and keep them "on log" maybe to use at some other time, and who knows, maybe one day (or over the summer?!) I will collate them into a book. This is an idea which as I write it sounds more and more appealing, so let's see! 

Anyway...with that in mind, and because i'm taking LOTS of photos right now, here is a run down of current medium sized adventures.....

  Mr. Snail and the big green box

              

 cars and felt tips

                                       jet washer!

           skipping!

illustrations still to come :) 

(all photos by me)

what a mess

ok... so somehow setting my own project has proved to be insanely challenging. I don't know why 'cause i've done this before -really successfully too!- but this time things have been pretty tough :S. 

ANYWAY... thankfully (and half way through) ideas are beginning and i've started doing some  encouraging stuff, and working with the idea of different kinds of mess, i.e. social, literal, emotional, physical, spiritual, political, dirty and clean. 

so the plan from now is to allot several days to each,and just rinse it. Needless to say this looks pretty challenging, and -I would like to point out- is really uncharacteristic of my working, but I think come September i'll be back to working at full capacity, full -steam ahead again. :) Here's hoping and praying... !     

radishes...

..as part of my making a mess (and as a super fan of veggies :P) I planted radishes and documented.