Scrapblog

In the art of true procrastination, here’s an illustration I did last month for my mum’s birthday posted live from the silent zone of the library, and if I told you that this was an illustration of a mountain I like to hope that it wouldn’t be too hard to believe. I sadly don’t have any photos on my camera of it to compare/enlighten, but luckily the internet has plenty (Name: Craig y Deryn).  Although only small, this is probably one of my favourite views from home and right now is something I’d much rather be seeing than 5 caffeine fuelled planning documents on molecular bilology. 

Here lies a piece of procrastination painting that I've been going back to every once in a while to complete and now that summer is finished, so is this. This digital painting started following being sent a picture of a foil facemask by my sister (if you've already scrolled to the bottom and quickly caught a glimpse at the scary looking sticker below that photo, I will explain that later too), and then I used various pictures of random people on Pinterest to form the face structure underneath the mask. I tried various different backgrounds for this painting including outer space but turns out this portrait didn't want to be an alien, and so instead I present to you a random human on the beach wearing a foil facemask. As the facemask and flower display were doing such a good job at making this person blend in, she is also wearing a jumper because it's September, therefore, colder and this is all of course very realistic... Appreciation note to my sister for l...

I remember reading somewhere that if you ever get stuck on writing something the best thing to do is to write the type of thing you’d like to read. Therefore  (just as a little pre-warning) , this is the approach I'm going for in this post. At the moment I keep seeing posts on Instagram where the picture is typography of excerpts from books and articles written by small name authors. Although these are pretty hit and miss, I actually really enjoy reading them anyway. Whether or not you take anything from them you get the opportunity to read someone's thoughts/creations. U nlike bigger authors, they don't have as much of a pressure to keep up to a certain standard, and what they write often comes off a lot more raw and free-spirited which I always find refreshing. So, if this was one of those " excerpts that I never wrote" type of posts, the question when writing it would be what would I say? And consequently, what would I like to read?  Consider this a dear...