Wet Cheeks

I'm having a particularly constructive day. Wet cheeks. I've just been standing in the kitchen talking to myself and crying. See, constructive.

I've booked today off work so I can have a day to myself, at my house. Hopefully pack things into boxes and hide them in the loft (the idea being they're ready to go straight into storage and are out of the way in the mean time). T-minus 6 weeks 'til Uni begins.

So much for playing Happy Couples and moving in together. Or making a home together. Books sharing shelves. One working and bread winning, the other home making and studying. Leafy green Surrey, toffee accents and art in the air. Togetherness and teaminess.

Instead, I'll be, once again, renting a room. Apparently everything will go into storage until there's a house to unpack it in. Fine. But do I store my equipment? I don't see a room fitting in more than a hair dryer and knickers to be honest. That's what rooms are for - bare essentials. A place to rest ones head in between days. It's not really somewhere to work. It could be to study in at a push - as long as the books are from the library and strictly on a one in one out basis.

And since I spoke up and voiced concerns, the plan is now for two of us to be in a room.

"Anyone for Claustrophobia?"

He has more clothes than I do. And shoes! And will have somewhere to be more often than I will. I'll be stuck at 'home', although home is not home. It's a room, as I said.

*assumes Cpt Jean Luke Piccard voice..* Print - a whole new medium to explore.

Honestly, it's pant wettingly exciting! This is a quick monoprint, taken from an image of Italy in a magazine. Yeah, struggling for inspiration a tad, but I love the result. We were introduced to this cute little technique as part of a fast n furious Saturday morning workshop. Laying the paper gently over the ink, sizing up the evil Honesty (a plant I now despise thanks to art classes) and 'drawing' into the paper with the arse end of a biro... Magical. What have I drawn? What will the monoprint look like?

Then comes the precious little moment when you peel back the paper and discover your image for the first time. Even the accidental marks and smudges are appealing and just make the image. The voids too.

Since then, we've finally started a Print module. More monoprinting ensued, and dry point too! Manically scratching lines into perspex, followed by the rest of the process (which involved kinda 'stroking' the plate with scrim) and again, waiting to see what happened. I could go on about it for hours. But I'll save it for now..I'm mid-migraine and am struggling with co-ordination and brain stuffery. *toddles off to find pj's*