Blog shame

I hate not being able to blog for such a long time! I got back from America on monday, finished camp and had 3 weeks of travel. I meant to do a lot more drawing in that time but in the end I just went to some amazing galleries and took a lot of photos. 

This is just an interim post because I am bored and still at home with no scanner, expect to see lots of posts next week when I can scan in and edit all of my camp drawings, very excited for that :) In the meantime here is a photo I just found of me teaching Julie, a girl who did an awesome anime drawing that ended up being around 10ft long, this is us piecing it together!

ink and bleach day!

So I discovered last week that you can use batik dyes for painting, I also discovered that using bleach on top looks a-mazing! For two days I had a desk full of paper cups with dye I stole from Anna ;) along with lots of bleach and watercolour paper.

The kids loved it and I ended up doing a few myself because I love how colourful they come out and how unpredictable the medium is. 

Some of the kids work.

And here's some of mine for fun :)

One of the diamonds is for Anna's birthday because I can't afford real ones on camp wages!

What I wouldn't give for easy access to a scanner so I could edit these properly...

 

watercolour doodles

All the kids left to go to the cinema before our last period today so I was chilling with Anna Batik and messing about with some gorgeous watercolours that I really want but can't afford!



america sketchbook so far!!

So it has been absolutely crazy here at Long Lake, I teach illustration 6 hours a day and the rest of the time is spent looking after the kids from 7.30-10.00 in the evening! Pretty mental to be honest. I have one free period a day to chill out so I have done a few sketches, I also did a really big one of the whole of camp to make into a batik for the kids to colour! The batik came out kinda crazy coloured and not too great but I liked the drawing so I will be scanning it in to colour when I get home :)

They have tonnes of prismacolour markers here (basically promarkers) which I have decided I quite like! Kids keep leaving the lids off all of them though so they keep getting thrown away, makes me sad :(