I'm feeling pretty good at the mo, I've started looking for work as a freelance Translator and I'm having quite a pleasing response. A part from that I'm going home to London next week to see family and friends. Joy!!

In terms of my fight to do arty type stuff... I'm pretty much carrying on withthe course activities which are getting more and more fun.



After practising with mark making for a while I drew this picture of our mantle piece at home.





Then I started mark-making with ink and acrylic, using different things like string, a spatula, a stick of bamboo, an old rubber and bits of card... it's all good.







And then I did this:







Which isn't quite finished yet.

I've had my last two wisdom teeth taken out this week, I feel proud of myself because it was a very scary thing for me. But it's done now, I've been sleeping a lot because of the antibiotics I think and only today have I started doing some work for the course again.


Your supposed to draw a picture using lines only. It was fun to do, I enjoy being told what to do sometimes, I like feeling less responsible about what I do.
Last weekend was Festa Major in Lleida, so we were out three days in a row drinking and eating and dancing, I had a lot of fun, sometimes it's good to just let go.

Out of the woods

Hello, yes I'm here again, I've been avoiding the blog, I wrote in it the other day just to prove that I'm still up for it. Well now I'm really here, blogging, not hiding, or moping or moaning. Today I have done some work on my Creative Sketchbook course. I am learning a creative process through doing this course and it feels good. The creative process I had before, if indeed I did have one before generally consisted in getting over excited about an idea and rushing to the finished piece in my mind and then never getting round to actually doing anything because really it was already done and dusted in my imagination. Well not any more! A new and more profesh Judy is fighting her way to the front of my head. The practical, no nonsense Judy is getting down to business with this matter of creativity. Instead of dreaming away my time imaging the paintings and projects I would do if I weren't a blocked and sad artist I'm going to start enjoying the ride, not knowing where the journey will take me. I promise this to myself.

Exhibition

, originalmente cargada por judyfarr.

My work was in the exhibition Extrabarri last 25th April, and I haven't said anything about it or about anything because I've been in a kind of daze. After working so hard to do it and finish and letting it all wash over me and then it just be over and finished and nothing anymore I'm having a bit of a come down. I've been studying a city and guilds course on-line which has got me drawing a lot, which is good. I've also started looking for translation work, which will also be good. But at the moment I have to say, I miss my carfree Lleida project and I want to get back into it again. The course is teaching me processes of developing ideas, gathering visual material and producing. This has helped me to find new ways of working which will hopfully be more productive.

I started doing this blog as a way of recording my progress as an artist, but I just feel so much shame about myself and the work I do that I can't seem to find the courage to be really honest here. I write in diaries almost everyday, but less and less in this blog. I upload my work onto flickr as a record of what I'm doing, maybe that's enough for the moment. I have to believe that one day I will feel truely proud of myself and my work, because at the moment I can't look people in the face when the subject of my work comes up.