The trepidation I felt waiting for the parcel to arrive from Matthew was pretty intense and being last to go with all of those stellar artists ahead of me was quite daunting.
When I unwrapped the parcel I was blown away by the range of styles, techniques and media used and I knew straight away that I wasn’t going to be able to adapt my usual style of way of painting as it just would have looked incongruous with the rest of the project.
I knew what I wanted my subject to be, it was Sharon who gave me the inspiration to think a little differently and Jeremy shared his love of illustration so I embarked on a very different way of painting than I was used to.
I’ll let you watch the video to see where I took it and why and I’m not gonna lie, I HATED the paper and so the video is an interesting insight into how one artist can struggle with tools that she’s not used to but it’s always interesting to be pushed out of one’s comfort zone.
Did I say pushed? I meant shoved…
So this sees the end of this project and it’s been great to share the page with my ADD colleagues, this coming weekend (11th & 12th September) we have a collaboration of a different kind and if you would like to be among the first to see it, you can watch it go out live on our Facebook page.
All of us look forward to speaking to you at the weekend, ALi B