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Festival sketchbook keeping --> painting? 
I have been wanting to add goats into my work for a couple of weeks now, something clicked drawing at womad festival.


Trying to make my painting more excitingI want to give my paintings a more exciting energy like i can achieve easier in drawing, the troll man uses the shadows from my face.
Some sketchbook keeping from summer 2024
Poster for our 48 hour film “the cabbage patch” coming soon...

The studio is currently in that exciting but rather fragile state of constant change. Every project lies unfinished, ready to be kneaded and stretched into a new form at any moment, glutiness and rising rapidly. The current main projects are a painting on a 70*100 cm canvas, another on a canvas a similar size but unstretched, a quilt, a memory map of colour pencil drawings, a new ink study, a set of instructions to be sent to america and a small series of clay and wooden models. Watch this space (spoken to no one in particular) .
This painting was causing me issues! I wanted to approach it the same way i do drawing, invention happening in the actual making of the work, but i dont think i have enough confidence or vocabulary in oil paints to do this yet. As such without the support of a drawing I found myself making lots of marks and coulours that I knew i would be working against later in the painting. I then went back and drew the composition which is a sketch im now using as my roadmap for the piece and its all been flowing a lot easier since! Still i dont want to give up on painting as an exploratory tool... just need a wee bit o practice first.
The startings of the map. A series of coloured pencil drawings that depict a future journey...
A strange man Is about, Says hes a construction worker in the service of the king cob? Has lost his uncle...