#9/52 Weeks: Drawing Stuff
As an artist I buy a lot of materials and supplies. But, I also love them for their own sake. I love the colours, the textures and the choice. It’s safe to say I am addicted and it is impossible for me to have too many sketchbooks, pads, textured paper, pens, inks, paints, pastels, pencils etc, etc, etc. I also love to photograph them occasionally as they are great subject matter in themselves. As soon as the weather improves I plan to get outside with some big sheets of Conte paper and get swirling with my chalk and oil pastels.
#7/52 Valentines Day
Sadly missed the last two weeks of my project, due to again…family illness and commitments, but I will do better.
#4/52 Weeks: Grandma’s LiMoge
So, I missed last weeks entry for the 52 Week Project because Orla wasn’t well, and I simply didn’t have time, hadn’t gone anywhere or done anything other than look after her and simply didn’t feel up to it. However, I was playing with my HTC one afternoon seeing what it could do, and took a shot of my Grandma’s Limoge ornaments and and used one of the Android filters to create a vintage effect. I am always amazed
As for the Limoge. I am very fond of it. Gladys collected it over two or three trips to France many years ago. I think on the last she made to the continent I was went too, I was 13. In fact, there were two of the miniature vessels with the handle, but sadly she knocked one over in the Nursing home one night and broke it. Gladys always wanted me to have her ornaments as she knew I was fond of them, and indeed…I am very glad to have them. 
#2/52 Weeks: Lay-ins and Toys
I had a lay-in yesterday morning. One doesn’t often get lay-ins when one has children. But, this Saturday having managed to shoo the child and husband away I had the bed to myself. In this situation, I make sure I am surrounded by my ‘toys’, usually consisting of my laptop, ipad, phone, diary, sketchbook and books to read/look at, and I stay there for as long as I possibly can, which means until I am nagged to rise, or my back starts to ache. I don’t get to read as much as I used to, and reading at bed time sends me to sleep, so it’s a real treat to be able to read undisturbed and not on the point of physical collapse! Anyway, to illustrate here is my entry for week 2 of my 52 Weeks Project.
#1/52 Weeks: Hearts and Flowers
My first picture for my 52 Week Project. Orla sitting at my desk drawing hearts and flowers. This is her favourite thing, to get in my workroom and mess with my stuff. My workroom/studio is very much my inner sanctum and generally she is now allowed in there. However, behind her on one wall of my studio, is all her work, paintings and drawings, so what can I say. She makes her presence felt everywhere
Lorrie Whittington
Visual Artist and Designer
Chichester, UK
