Julie Edgson: October 2011

Sunday, 30 October 2011

Charlie Simpson

Friday 28th brought a highly anticipated day for me, the day that I got to meet Charlie Simpson!

We arrived very early at Concorde 2 in Brighton for our meet and greet.

When we finally got in, we watched a little bit of the sound check and then he came over to meet us! He signed a set list for us and then gave us a plectrum each.

Watching the sound check...

Me and Charlie.

He was VERY tall and was even bending over slightly here!! (or I'm just really short..... )

After the meet and greet, we were put to the front of the queue for the gig. So we managed to get very near the front.

The gig was excellent, the support acts started it off well. They set the crowd off with their lively and engaging performances.

There were three of them; Andrew Balkwill, Dave McPherson and We Were Evergreen.

I was very pleased to have Dave McPherson as one of the supporting acts as he is the lead singer of one of my favourite bands, InMe. Which was an excellent surprise and just made the evening just that much better.

Charlie was just as good and put on a great performance.

He played my two favourite songs from his album: Sundown and Please Let Me Go as well as many others.

I really didn't want the gig to end!

Love Julie

xxx

Monday, 10 October 2011

Better Late Than Never

My birthday was just under a month ago, I am finally sending out thank you cards!

Whoops.

All sewn on the sewing machine, using different patterned papers.

Yes, my obsession with Elephants continues.

Julie

Lowestoft Drawing Trip

I recently went on a drawing trip to Lowestoft.

It is required on the second year of my course to do one solid week of location drawing.

The rest of my class went to Seville, Spain, however I am not keen on planes (which didn't help) and I didn't feel quite strong enough in myself to take on this task just yet. Which is a shame, as I do not want to be holding myself back from all the fantastic opportunities I have. It was a hard decision to make, but I feel that I made the right choice in the end, doing something I felt comfortable with.

My trip to Lowestoft was with two other class mates (their reasons for not going was not being able to afford it) so I had people to spend my time with and to help motivate me and give feedback of each others work, which was great.

One of my class mates partner lives in Lowestoft, so we were lucky enough to be shown around by him to ensure we didn't get lost and to find all the best places to draw.

As well as going to Lowestoft, we traveled just along the coast to Great Yarmouth for a couple of days to broaden our drawings.

We were extremely fortunate with the weather as we went away during the September 'Heat wave'.

It felt like Summer as it was so hot and sunny and there we no clouds in the sky!

The week went extremely quickly and we came home feeling absolutely exhausted.

Below I have scanned in some of the drawings I did over the week.

I used three sketchbooks, one long thin, one square and one large Moleskine.

The drawings are not perfect as the idea was to get down as much information about the place in as little time as possible.

Enjoy.