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.

Felt tip and fine liner

Coloured pencil

Fine liner

Crayon

Fine liner and water colours

Felt tip and fine liner

Fine liner

Wax crayon and water colour paint over the top

Pencil

Ink

Water colour and diluted ink

Fine liner and Crayon

Fine liner

(Below)

Colour swatch of drawing

Coloured pencil

Fine liner

Fine liner

Felt tip

Fine liner

Pencil

Fine liner

Pencil

Fine liner

Pencil

 Pencil

Fine liner

Coloured pencil

Ink

Pencil

Fine liner

Fine liner and crayon

Pencil

Fine liner

Fine liner

Pencil

Fine liner and crayon

Crayon

Pencil

Fine liner

Fine liner

During our time there, we did manage to find some time to have a bit of fun.

I ended up buying a dog on a lead from one of the seaside shops.

We had a lot of fun with it!!!

We also found a hole dug on the beach, so I jumped into it.....

[Video to come]

Julie

xx

Twinings Advert

I just love this advert for Twinings

The animation is beautiful and the idea is lovely.

Enjoy.

Julie

xx

iSnap Journal Page

A journal page made with the small photos on the index page that comes with the developed photos.

Olympus iSnap

It's been a long while since I've blogged and to be honest, not much has happened.
I have been working and trying to relax and make the most of my time off.

Just started back at uni for my second year!! Looking forward to it, although feeling slightly daunted by the work load to come!!

Today I finished the film in my Olympus iSnap camera, so got it developed whilst in town.
I used it mainly to document a few events in the summer. Some of the pictures have turned out quite well, some are rather funny! 

But all show some really good memories :)

 Eating the best carrot cake I've ever had!

Secret Garden Party

 The messiest falafel pitta we've ever eaten!

Secret Garden Party

 Cher with her messy falafel pitta

Secret Garden Party

A close up of my face paint, this camera does not like close up photos
Secret Garden Party 

 Secret Garden Party

Secret Garden Party 

 Secret Garden Party

 Secret Garden Party

 Secret Garden Party

 Secret Garden Party

Me and a torch of all things

 Secret Garden Party

 Flat mates (Year 1) With huge bars of choccy

 Flat mates ready for a night out

 Cher in the garden

 Dad

 Me, Martin and Misty in the back garden

 My wrist band (another blurry one)

Walk with parents
I like the effect on these photos

 Sitting on a branch when out for a walk

 Out for a walk

 Me and my Dad, when we went to a Mads Langer gig in Borderline, London.

Mads Langer on stage

Feeling very uninspired at the moment, very tired and generally quite grumpy, so it would explain the lack of interesting things in this post.

I'm hoping my next post will be interesting.
I have a few things lined up this month, so I'm hoping things will liven up soon.

Thanks for reading
Julie

xx