Embroidery course and revision

This week I have started a machine embroidery course with the textile artist Rachel Reynolds. We will be learning about different techniques and materials. At the end of the course, we will each be able to exhibit a project at the Harbour Lights Cinema in Southampton. This is so exciting and fun and I am already looking forward to next weeks session. I really hope I can produce a piece to exhibit.

Two more weeks before my PhD is completed, very scary. The last hurdle is a viva, which is an oral examination. I have just started revising some theory and I am rather nervous about it now. I am definetly not looking forward to it, but what needs to be done needs to be done.

6 March 2008

This drawing is a schematic diagram of a photon. Originally I intended to draw without stopping, but I just couldn't complete it one go. Oh well, it was rather ambitious. I shall have another go on another envelope.

Posted: 06.03.08 at 9.30 pm

Returned: 08.03.08

5 March 2008

A drawing that I am rather pleased with for a change. Drawn with ink using a pencil brush. The dots on the top of the envelope were added using a glitter pen. I have had them for years and never really used them. Not sure how well they work here, but it was good to experiment with one of them.

Posted: 05.03.08 at 10.00 pm
Returned: 07.03.08

4 March 2008

This drawing was inspired by a vase I have, which I now use to keep my pencil brushes. I am so pleased I am using it for something now as previously I wasn't quite sure what to use it for as it wasn't really quite right for flowers.

Posted: 04.03.08 at 11.30 pm (I only had a first class stamp, ups)

Returned: 06.03.08

3 March 2008

This drawing was rather uninspired. I quite like it now though.

Posted: 03.03.08 at 11.00 pm
Returned: 06.03.08

2 March 2008

Ink doodling. I started of with a blob of ink and then moved the ink out to create the black swirly bits. This made it rather dark and I then decided to try out some old ink cartridges in the drawer and decided to draw some flowers and add the coloured ink. I am quite pleased how the flowers turned out. I am not to keen on the swirly bits anymore.

Posted: 02.03.08 at 11.20 pm

Returned: 05.03.08

1 March 2008

I am not sure what I feel about this drawing. Some days I find it rather sweet and other days, I find it dark.

Posted: 1.03.08 at 9.30 pm

Returned: 5.03.08

I just looked at the front of the envelope and the postal processing is very different to all my other ones so far. Apparently this has been manualy processed, while the other ones have been automatically processed.

This is the other (main) postal processing:

29 February 2008

This doodling was done in a rush as it was 11.50 and I had taken to long to finish the drawing inside. Never mind.

Posted: 29.02.08 at 11.59

Returned: 03.03.08

28 February 2008

Dark and light blue colour pencil stars. The black around the stars was black ink.

Posted: 28.02.08 at 11.00 pm

Returned: 03.03.08 This one seems to have taken ages to return:(

27 February 2008

This is my favourite drawing so far this week. It sort of reminds me of chinese style drawing. I mixed colour pencil with a gold gel pen.

Posted: 27.02.08 at 12.00 pm
Returned: 29.02.08

26 February 2008

Well what can I say. This letter was drawn on the train on my return from London and what do I do. I hop of the train, pop it into my jacket pocket and swing on my bike. Of course by the time I had gotten to the post box, it had disappeared out of my jacket. To tired to cycle all the way back, I continued to cycle home in the hope wherever I lost it it would get picked up and hopefully posted (Luckily I had put a stamp on). To my surprise, it turned up on the 29 of February, slightly wrinkled. Thank you so much, whoever has posted this envelope.

Posted: Slight mystery, not me that's for sure
Returned: 29.2.08

25 February 2008

This drawing was created on the train and reminds me of grass weeds somehow. It was drawn with a colour pencil, which has a metalic effect. It doesn't quite come out in the photograph.

Posted: 25.02.08 at 11.00 am in London
Returned: 28.02.08

24 February 2008

These pebbles are drawn with Graphite pencils. I am very pleased with the shading and light effects.

Posted: 24.02.08 at 22.00
Returned: 26.02.08

Four more envelopes

Four more envelopes are beside me which have already arrived. I am still slightly slow at posting. But there we are. It's to dark now to take any decent picies of them, so I shall do that tomorrow. One of the envelopes has had a rather lucky return as I actually lost it before posting it. I still can't quite believe it arrived.

Feeling slightly ill. I knew I should not have had that second chocolate souffle. Totally my fault. Silly me.

23 February 2008

This is so far my favourite envelope drawing. It was inspired by one of my jewellery pieces. I decided to use my water colouring colour pencils. To define the detail I decided to use some of black ink, which my fiance got years ago from his aunt for Christmas. I am hoping I can apply the ink in a few more envelopes as I quite like it. Slightly worried about it getting wet though. So far so good.

Posted: 23.02.08 (Ups, I don't seem to have written down what time it was posted. Definitely before 24.00

Returned: 26.02.08

22 February 2008

A drawing of one of my protein crystals from last year. I was just looking through my old crystal pictures in my lab book and wondered what crystal shapes I might produce in the next couple of months. So far this is my favourite crystal form. Does look a little bit like a green colour pencil:)

Fingers crossed!

Posted 22.02.08 at 23.11
Returned 25.02.08

21 February 2008

The sea, sailing boats and little waves.

Posted on 21.02.03 at 19.30
Returned on 23.02.08