In 2020 I decided to do a project to help me learn to use Affinity designer. The project I chose was to create a deck of Lenormand Cards.Lenormand cards are a deck of 36 cards named for the french fortune-teller Madame Marie Lenormand. However, the cards themselves have nothing to do with the woman who […]
Here are the three pieces I did for my grade 7 cello exam. These are the cumulation of a year’s practice. They are not the clips I submitted for the exam (cause of covid we can submit videos). Submitting via video was stressful. With a live exam, you have one shot, then it is done. […]
It has been a long time since I updated this website. Because in part I hated the old design. This new design is better. a bit simpler and not doing so many unexpected things. my last post was for Inktober 2020 After which I disappeared. and it was not like my posts were overly frequent […]
I participated in Inktober again. This time exclusively using dip and brush pens and on a single image incorporating all the prompts into one big picture. This was an exciting challenge, taking the disparate elements from the prompt and a relatively new medium. Combining them into one cohesive image and risking mistakes that could destroy […]
This year I accidentally fell into doing inktober. It started with inspiration from the first theme and access to procreate. I think this time it was good for me. It definitely pushed my illustration skills such as they are. I think the best thing about challenges like this is that they push you to put […]
Sometimes it’s good to be a kid again. Making bad art from cheap stuff you find yourself in a euro shop. My husband and I were watching the great pottery throw down over the long weekend. A show about people making pottery. In Aldi I spotted some air dry clay and thought why not? I […]
I recently bought a new Guitar, because I am living I’m my mums and my main acoustic Guitar is in storage and I found I really missed having a guitar around. Which is funny because I Have owned a guitar since I was 15 and I can play chords one thing I could never do […]
A big goal for me this year was to read 40 books. I smashed that target having read over 60 pooks. Which is a huge source of pride for me and has helped me join a book club getting me out of the house. So here are the 10 books that I think had the […]
This month I decided to try the Whole 30 Diet for a number of reasons. The main one being my hovering weight that hasn’t moved since my recovery from cancer but also I have had issues with my stomach dating back long before the big C. How I came to the whole 30 I found […]
This is a small project done as part of a technical test. it pulls in data from the flickerApi and allows the user to run searches on the photo tags. It was built using react and webpack with styling done using scss. This was also my first time implementing both infinate scrolling and a masonry […]
My first book is off with beta readers. So I am Starting my next one. This one is more speculative fiction/sci-fi than the epic fantasy of my first book. Starting has been rough on this because I have had to do several technical tests for potential jobs. Which unfortunetly has stopped me from working on the novel. I had […]
Inktober is a yearly event that challenges artists to create an ink Drawing every day. I have known about it for a few years and figured I may as well participate. The challenge comes with a prompt for every day in October. The prompts are often challenging. and pushed me to draw things I […]