Emily

I love the concept of the summer project I have been set! I feel that recording my life visually is a much more interesting way of keeping a diary rather than presenting my experiences in a written format. I think this task will be extremely beneficial for me. I love to draw, and I know that once I start I have a great pleasure in creating something that I can be proud of. However for the last week or two I've felt pretty uninspired to say the least. I haven't so much as picked up a pen let alone created anything worth presenting. Theres only one way to get out of that frame of mind though, and that is to push yourself. The best way to work through a rough patch is just to keep creating, despite the fact that you may think what you are creating is slightly shit. Thats why a diary in which I can draw everyday, be it a doodle if I'm feeling lazy, or a half decent drawing, will be great for keeping me inspired! I decided to leap right into it, and created a title page of cou...

I am very aware that it has shamefully been almost a month since my last blogpost, whoops. This past month has been pretty hectic with regards to uni and I'm ecstatic to say that my first year is fully complete! My  tea project was beginning to take it's toll on me as it came to a close, probably the most stressed I have been during one of my assignments. But it all came together in the end, thankfully.  In my last post, I featured one of my drawings of a scene centred around tea, with a sort of french theme to it. Well, that wasn't the rout I went down in the end. I began to research more into the production of tea, because I felt that the research aspect of my work was weak, consequently stumbling across tea plantations. Tea is one of the main exports from Sri Lanka, a place that I visited as a child and that had a strong impact on me. My memories of the trip are filled with the abundance of beauty in the landscapes, and the incredible colours that enrich the environ...