I'm Alive!

Hello!

I'm so sorry for such a lapse in blog updates of late. Time has flown by in a gust of graduating from university, moving out, moving back home, moving back out again, exhibitions, job seeking, house decorating, mud covered festivals and turning 22.
I'm hoping it's all beginning to settle back down again soon so life can return to normal and i can get more work done!
Our new house has two spare rooms, one of which we put a tent up in (gonna make it like Richie's tent in The Royal Tenenbaums!). The other we are using as a studio. Which is going to be great! I'm going to have a place to go and work like the studio at university was. I think like minded people can appreciate the need for a change of scene when working and one that's not a foot away from where you crash every night too....



Since my last post lots has happened. Some of which was an exhibition my friends organised in our town. It was a lot of fun and a great experience.

We made some good contacts and sold some work. So i count it as a success!

Role on 'Departure lounge: 5 Years Later' hahah













I've also been doing commissions and i've also got some exciting things lined up for this November in time for Thought Bubble 2012. I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth into work on them in my new studio space!

My lovely lingering comic project, 4AM. Has, hopefully understandably, trailed off of late. I'm also really looking forward to getting that wrapped up and printed! I'm so sorry to anyone who has been expecting out by now. I'm reminded of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Life has well and truly been getting in the way. The sequence below is from it. It's one of the many pages on line art i've got to do the colour layer for...
(the image at the top of this post is one of the also many colour adjusted and finished pages from it. So i'm getting there!)

Anyway, hope i've somewhat explained my absence. 

(There you go Tabi :) I've updated!)

I'm back to work!

Cheers for reading!

Hope you have a lovely week :)

TEE x

June is Here!

So the month of june is here. Its the month where i want to get my comic, 4AM finished and printed...maybe. Which is scary since a few weeks ago i did a revised version of the pages left to do and a proper count up of the book and it came to exactly 100 pages. Which would be neat if it wasn't so daunting! It's 50 double spreads including all the end papers and title pages. I have been saying 40 all this time!
But it's going...okay....just can't wait for it to be done. Will be such an achievement!





Anyway, last week saw the final year show at my uni. The private view was on the friday and it was a really great night! I took some pictures during the week of the illustration exhibition. I think it looks really good considering it's our first year in this space. Our tutors worked really hard to get what is actually our desk covered studio space looking like this. I painted some of the boards and helped hang some things! but yeah...
The picture on the left below is my space :)

At the moment i'm looking into printing and framing for the painting below. It's for an exhibition happening in Israel (yeah exciting!) that me, 2 other students and my tutor (who got us into it) are taking part in with the theme 'Regular'. I'll write a bit more about it next time, but this is my entry entitled 'Hidden'.

June is also the month in which at the end of it i have to be out of my uni house. I'm going to miss 71, it's been a mad adventure with some classic moments :) This is a picture of our coffee table that i had to take. The sight made me laugh a lot as i was greeted by it in the morning. I think it sums our house up quite well...

Lots of doodling of characters has taken place lately. I want to tell more stories with them.

 I also saw the new Wes Anderson film, Moonrise Kingdom on wednesday. I really enjoyed it and want to see it again! So pretty and lovely. I love his characters.

Both my laptop and external monitor have pictures i took of the sky at the moment. It makes me happy. I love clouds.

 Thanks for reading! Have a Great bank holiday weekend britain, and an equally great weekend everywhere else :)

Tee x

Exhibitions and Stickers!

So these last few weeks i've been finishing off the last few things for my university degree. It's just the degree show now to go! Scary but i'm kind of looking forward to seeing what the next stage of life brings.
The show is next friday and we've been working to transform out studio space into a lovely clean white gallery space. It's looking pretty good!

Anyway it seems it's all been about displaying work lately. The show i mentioned previously at my favourite pub was a great night.

And then the next week i was in my local Waterstones, the Costa section, with my dad, putting up more work that's going to be up there for a month! So that's really exciting!

On another note, The Whatnot Tree goes to MCM EXPO in london on the 25th of May (so not this weekend, but next). We have a table in the trader's bit and in the artist's alley this time so that's going to be cool. 

I was hoping to have my comic, 4AM, ready and printed in time for it. But it's become apparent recently that it's not going to be which is really disappointing, but i've always said i'm not going to rush it. It will hopefully be done in time for the middle of june now. It's hit so many problems and has taken so much longer than expected. But it is still on track and i can't wait to hold a finished copy in my hands. I've worked so hard on it, i've never attempted something this big.

HOWEVER i do have stickers. Barry and Terry! And they will be on the stand in the artist alley at MCM so that's something! But if you want them now you can! Here in my esty shop.

So yeah, all in all busy, very busy, but good mainly.
Here's a nice picture i took of a tree from one of the many times i've been in the park recently :)

Thanks for reading!

TEE x