By Stephie, on Sunday 2nd January, 2011 at 03:37 am
I was so lucky to be given a box of wonderful soft chalks for Christmas. They’re my favourite sort, crumbly and sensual. When you rub them between your fingers they feel really silky and you know they’ll just glide across the paper. Even the box they come in is gorgeous, all dark and promising. You lift off the lid and nestled inside, protected, cosseted, are 18 sticks of intense colour that will be as pleasurable to use as they are to look at. I decided to christen them in the first minutes of New Year’s Day.
 First self-portrait of 2011  Detail My first creative act of 2011. A fair start I think. What’ve you been up to? I’d love to know!
Stephie x
By Stephie, on Sunday 7th March, 2010 at 15:20 pm
Well, back on the drawing thing again. Several people, no not just the one, have suggested that I make myself look like my grandmother in my drawings. I take that to mean that I make myself look 30 years older, whereas in reality I’m told I look ten years younger  (It’s true!). I’ve thought about this and wondered why. I try to draw what I feel like, rather than what I look like, so maybe I feel two generations older? Er, no, I definitely don’t feel like I belong to my mother’s mother’s generation. Maybe it’s just what the depression looks like. Not good. Anyway, I decided to take some photos as I worked on a drawing, to see if there was any point in particular I become ‘old’! I think maybe I just start that way – what do you think?
 Just before I started drawing - really do I look that old?!
 Stage 1, just scribbling to get a feel for the paper
 Stage 2, not looking too old yet?  Stage 3, er no...
 Stage 4? Seriously, get rid of it  Stage 5, try again - getting older yet?
 Stage 6 - obliterate it (and me) completely
 Stage 7 - getting older...  Stage 8, oh god just look at it  Stage 9? Right that's it, I'm bored with this now. It didn't go the way I wanted; it went lots of different ways, none of them the right way. Meh. Trying hard to suppress urges to bin this one. Just before I started drawing - really do I look that old?! Any resemblance between the last drawing and the photo then, I don’t know! Does it matter if I look 50 years older in the drawing? You can of course leave me your honest comments!
#draw365 – see the group’s drawings here
My Gallery – see all my drawings for the 365 project here
By Stephie, on Thursday 25th February, 2010 at 22:42 pm
At last here are some drawings I’ve made over the last few days or s0. Well, I say drawings, they’re sketches really, nothing more. What do you think?
 I did these ones a couple of weeks ago now. They're in ink and chalk and are pretty naff if you ask me, ha, ha!! Probably took all of 5 minutes. (A5 sketchbook)  Ink in an A6 sketchbook.  Erm, and another A6 sketch  And here's another one  Oh and another...  and yet another one - are you bored yet?  How about this for a bit of light relief then?  She likes a wash does Lily! #draw365 – see the group’s drawings here
My Gallery – see all my drawings for the 365 project here
By Stephie, on Friday 12th February, 2010 at 19:11 pm
Hmmm, not that enamoured of these sketches at all. Getting a bit same ol’ same ol’ aren’t they? I’m asking myself what the point of all these self-portraits is, or more to the point what I’m going to do with them. In the past I did a self-portrait a day for a month and they eventually became part of a mail-art project, which I kind of intertwined with another collaborative project called Unspoken. I think at the moment I just need to explore some different media for a while, rather than think too much about what I’m doing them for. I do like to look and to study, I just don’t know that they’re something you’d like to see here everyday? Maybe you’d prefer it if I just posted them once a week? Or not at all. I’d love to know, it’s getting me all in a quandary. And I don’t like being in a quandary, it’s too much to deal with at the moment!
 10.02.10 More chalk drawing in my A5 sketchbook. I think it'll be nice to have a sketchbook full of self-portraits. Erm, I think.  11.02.10 Another one closer to my goal to finish the sketchbook. This one's a mixed media version, ooooh! Drawing pen, chalk and coloured pencil. #draw365 – see the group’s drawings here
My Gallery – see all my drawings for the 365 project here
By Stephie, on Tuesday 9th February, 2010 at 23:41 pm
Well, here’s the drawing I started the day before yesterday. And here it is from last night. This is it. Finished. I don’t know whether I should have left it at stage 1 (see post #draw365 – post 13) or not. I think at this stage it’s a better drawing, but I quite liked the atmosphere I’d created at stage 1. Oh well, you take a decision you have to live with it. And I’m happy with the decision I made. For once!
 This is the final stage of the self-portrait I showed you yesterday in post 13  Showing you a bit more detail
 And another detail! #draw365 – see the group’s drawings here
My Gallery – see all my drawings for the 365 project here
By Stephie, on Monday 8th February, 2010 at 13:32 pm
As usual of late, I started drawing late last night, or should I say in the small hours of this morning! I decided that I wouldn’t do another sketch in the sketchbook and I’d make a start on this one – I mean, no-one said it had to be a completed drawing each day for the #draw365 project! I’ll work on it again tonight, and will probably finish it. If I get started early enough…
 Chalks and conte on pastel paper #draw365 – see the group’s drawings here
My Gallery – see all my drawings for the 365 project here
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