Resolutions

I was looking at my website today and it looks.. like bits and pieces/unorganised and all over the place. Although I don't want to stop experimenting, I feel I need to perfect my way of approaching illustration..

Make my work look like a body of work, rather than bits and pieces.

I think I might have a spring clean of my website soon.

Which leads on nicely to my 'New Years Resolutions'..

1. Create/make something nearly every day

2. Become a great teacher

3. Learn Spanish

4. Eat healthier food and exercise! (Chocolate is exempt from this rule)

5. Go on day trips to interesting places (with sketchbook in hand)

6. Learn the ukelele

Maison Ravel sketch

Here's a sketch for an up and coming lino!

...Once I order a good piece of lino from England to Spain (Im quite picky)

It will be a small print of my boyfriend's lovely flat in Ciboure,

'Maison Ravel'

home to the artist Maurice Ravel

Christmas plant

As promised, my first sketch!

This sketchbook is going to be just biro

So this is 'Christmas Plant'

Named before I discovered it was called a Poinsettia

Update:

So Ive just had my first job interview for English teacher position in Barca

It went really well (even though I was insanely tired), and not half as terrifying as I'd built myself up to believe!
…and I got the job!

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Ive joined 'Good Reads'

A great website for keeping track of your books, book discussions, 

and suggestions.

Now that I have a kindle, I miss having a book shelf

so this is a nice substitute

If anyone reading this has a Good Reads account, 

I'd love to have a look at your suggestions!

Follow me here - 

My Good Reads page

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I've also decided to start sketching in my sketchbook again.
It's been a shamefully long time since I've done this and I'm living in such a lovely place now..
it would be shame not to.

I read (I think on Meg Hunt's blog) the suggestion of keeping a sketchbook and only using one
medium for it.
I think this is a great idea and forces you to work in way that perhaps you haven't tried before
(One of my biggest problems is indecision)
I've also got a few weeks to kill before the school terms start!

Valparaiso sketchbook 2013

Cupcake

So this was a bit of an experiment, 

trying to make an illustration look like a lino print

Hello old friend!

An illustration I made a few years ago for Cambridge University

 is still being sent to their graduates and is temporarily on their website!

Really nice to hear about this one

Arunta Bar finals

Here are the final cuts!

I really love this logo, very happy