Busy Busy

Yesterday was a busy day for me. So busy infact that I forgot to do a couple of things I was meant to (so annoying!). I got up to the printmaking department at 9.30am where I sat pasting pages and pages of an old blog documenting my relationship into my sketch book. It took ages, but was good to read over. It allowed me to deeply reflect on the nature of the relationship I had with my ex. It inspired a few ideas for some work which I hope to make later on today.

Then, later went to buy supplies from the artstore to make a little drying line in my studio (to allow oiled paper to dry). Money is really becoming an issue again, especially with the trip to London coming up. After lunch, I went back up to screenprinting and finally exposed my 4 colour separation image on the UV machine. My initial prints were just wee quickies to stick into my sketchbook and get back into the swing of things in printmaking. I love the proccess involved in screenprinting. There is a lot of washing and the bonus of being able to use a power hose :-) hehe. Again, the issue of money cropped up because I owed the lithography technician money from last year and had to buy my own inks for screenprinting yesterday. I managed to get 5 prints done quite quickly because most other people were on their lunch break.

Then I went down to the computer suite in lithography to check out the best way to get to london. We saw cheap flights for about £11 which tempted me but its the hassel getting from stanstead to the city centre. So I think we've just decided to get the train - £50 return. Not too bad but still, £50 I could do with keeping. To finish the day, my friend and I spend an hour or so oiling and hanging up paper. I was so tired when I got home I didn't even make it to the gym, which means I'll be making up for it tonight.