I've not been blogging as much as I'd like at the moment with various deadlines to meet, frustrating as I use the process to sort things out in my mind for example what stays in my memory from exhibitions I've visited. At some point I'll have a posting blitz! Meanwhile , I've still been reading other peoples blogs, I'm glad that they at least are keeping it up. So I was thrilled to win a lovely oak linocut postcard from Sheila Barnes(
'Idaho Beauty') in a draw to celebrate 8 years of blogging. By coincidence I also won another postcard from her in 2008 to celebrate 3 years! Thank you Sheila and Congratulations.
Another benefit of blogging is as a showcase for my quilts, drawings and paintings and the unexpected opportunities this brings. Yesterday I received my copy of
'Playing with Sketches' by Whitney Sherman which includes a couple of the drawings I did at the National Gallery last year under the heading ' Sketching from the Masters'. Whitney contacted me having seen my
blog posts - it's funny seeing them in print when I've developed much further this year.
The book itself is very interesting with 50 different exercises to try(or calisthenics as she calls it!) , including things like smoke drawing which I tried for the first time in Puglia. I'm looking forward to trying some of them out.
