is it summer?

Today was the first day of British summertime, which is rather good news. Unfortunately I didn't manage to appreciate it as I was stuck inside all day showing people round the upcoming spare room in our flat.

I did, however, make a pile of origami boxes for an easter egg hunt we are planning, and also managed to break free in the evening to go to the pub quiz.

It was good, we came 3rd (one place better than last time) and won some breakaway biscuits! We almost managed to win as we were in joint first place before the last round. But alas, the quizmaster chose football and we only got 3 right.

Maybe next time...

www.debbie-hill.co.uk

Today I made a few updates to my website.

adventures in screen printing

The first layer of a 3 colour print.

a tiny bit

Here is a mini sample from my first & second screenprinting class.
I printed a pile of A3 kite/rain/pigeon combinations and then decided to print a few lone pigeons on different types of paper.

I can assure you that not all my work on the course is going to be pigeon related - this week I began printing a chicken, and an egg.

Maybe I'll even move away from birds in the near future...

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Oh, and also, I'm VERY excited about this event coming up as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe 2009.
Hope to see you all there on the 25th May.
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the paperclip

I'm not sure what I'm doing anymore, but at least I'm producing a lot more stuff.

screen printing

Today I started a screen printing course.
I didn't print a pizza, but I did eat one for lunch.


Did you know the margherita pizza was invented in 1889? Now you do.
See, my blog can be educational too!
x

on fire

Today I drew a lot of candles and matches whilst listening to the ricky gervais show.


Good stuff!

In other news, it turns out that I won the library card competition mentioned the other day! So in a couple of months they'll be being issued to new members of brighton jubilee library - exciting stuff. (probably much more exciting that the goody bag that I won, which was full of books the library must have been trying to offload).

I hope you've all had nice weekends - a highlight for me was watching parenthood yesterday.
I think I might just be a little bit in love with steve martin.


And that is all.
x

underwater

southern comfort

This week I'm experimenting with watercolour.

this and that

A little bit of an update:

Today i got a new book in the post. I look forward to giving it a read.

On saturday I got locked out of home but used the day productively by going to Yumi's and creating some library card designs for our local library (there's a competition on at the moment). We don't have high hopes of winning but we had a good time drawing so all is well.

I tried to draw tiffany from memory:


As you can see I missed out some key elements (turns out my memory isn't that good).

Also last week I had some bad news...my cat Shadow passed away. It was quite expected as he was almost 20 but also very sad as he has been a lovely friend for most of my life. Poor little lamb.



Tomorrow me and Yumi are going to head to the library to see the outcome of the competition - wish us luck (we really do need it!).
x

lovely new things

This weekend I was especially busy dashing around Brighton.
On Sunday I managed to attend the market at the station, the brighton zinefest AND the frock me vintage fashion fair at the university.

Here are some nice treats I picked up.

SUNDAY MARKET:


desk lamp = £1
flowers for tiffany = 50p

ZINEFEST:


I drew some pigeon badges and a kind fellow made them for me!

FROCK ME:


tartan skirt = £5

And they weren't the only nice things I've acquired lately, pop over to my pigeon blog to see some more lucky finds.

gerbils

a drawing for my shopping list hunt.

a kite kite

Today I've been thinking about kites.
So here is a kite shaped kite:

cushions

Yesterday I went to Yumi's to eat some of her lovely cheese straws and to get arty with her birthday craft kit. I also got to sit on her lovely new sofa - complete with nice new cushion covers (made by yumi). It inspired me to come home and make some cushions of my own:


I've been meaning to make use of these pieces of fabric for ages now. I received them in a swap with Siming almost two years ago and have finally turned them into something nice. And I added on a seagull too!

show and tell

As promised here are some pictures of the lovely things I picked up at the art junky fair last week:


Isn't this jigsaw puzzle lovely? I'd call it a dogsaw rather than a jigsaw though. It cost me £1 and kept me entertained for 2 evenings last week. What more can you ask for?

I also bought this rather sweet arctic hare:


Made by Kaye Blegvad from the Illustrators Elbow collective, a group currently studying on the BA Illlustration course at Brighton uni.
They are a talented bunch so do check them out!

cat nap

badly drawn biscuits

I'm not going to eat ANY biscuits this week.
I've eaten far too many of late.

shopping list hunt

i've been updating my shopping list blog and am going to try and keep it up to date from now on (whilst also posting up lists from my existing collection).

have a look!

love is in the air

I'm not sending any valentines cards this year but if I was I would definitely send one of these:







Beautiful e-cards, each by a different artist.
And check out the rest of the site too as there is more lovely stuff.
x

pigeons aren't perfect

I've set up a new blog: protect the pigeons.

For all things pigeon related.

Please pay it a visit!