A story unfolding……

What might have been…., originally uploaded by gilfling. I am having a funny old day today – good, but funny. My brain and hands are itching to be doing so many different things at once that I don’t know which way to turn. I am so aware that currently this blog is so ‘me-centric’ and [...]

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Studio day…

costume boy, originally uploaded by gilfling. I had other ideas for a post for today but after spending far too many glorious hours holed up in my studio yesterday….well today I am pooped and my thoughts are a jumble of this and that….. So instead I shall just show this wee fellow that I painted yesterday [...]

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Making progress…..

26 1 11, originally uploaded by gilfling. Today should be my last day of working on the dreaded admin and for that I am glad. The only place I want to be at the moment is my studio, playing and working away with the music on and the bunnies snoozing under the ironing board. We [...]

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Back to the beginning…….

paint practice, originally uploaded by gilfling. I am so out of practice with painting. It is something I have always struggled with in a sense but I found my own way and style by getting comfortable with my materials and using a whole host of things to develop a piece. Most of my previous works [...]

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Working through a process….

I am continuing to work through the stretching within e-course and it is good to be drawing again! Drawing (from observation, from my imagination and just drawing because….) is something that  I really neglected for most of last year (possibly even the last two years…?) and this course is helping me re-discover materials that I [...]

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An ink bottle a day

Friday, Friday and in this work that I love so much Friday does not signal the end of the week for me. My days are different at the moment as I am still moderating my hours to allow for recovery time and so my working hours are short and I am allowing myself even more time than is [...]

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Mosaic Monday 10th Jan 2011

Mosaic Monday 10th Jan 2011, originally uploaded by gilfling. Happy Monday to you! I am excited to be starting this week feeling inspired and ready to go. These mosaics are a great beginning to the week gazing and absorbing images that inspire me. There are so many amazing artists to be found via flickr. Please click-through [...]

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Time to rest, time to stretch

3 1 11, originally uploaded by gilfling. I am really enjoying continuing with these quick small daily sketches. Although not the best drawings I have created, I am finding that in that time when I am so sleepy, there is no room to be anxious about what is appearing on the page. I have no [...]

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