I am sure that most of you find that some situations get in the way of a commitment you made to continue working on a project come what may? Well, that’s me folks! Yes, I have been procrastinating about getting stuck in to my art work, and I apologise to those who may have been waiting to see progress on my Memoir in Pictures (a working title). I’m only a few pages along from when I last wrote about the book, although I have made some inroads as to how I wish to present my pages, and to execute the finished product – as in taking it from scruffy pencil sketches to the finished product.

I am finding that my plans change as I start to sketch, and I then must adapt my ‘story’ to suit. This is what occurred when working on my Aunt Agnes pages needing me to adjust my images and numbers of pages as I went. Take this scenario, of having a lunchtime scene at the Aunts’ house, which morphed, from the three oldest children taking off to explore while the youngest remains at the table with Agnes. Next page Aunt Maud is remonstrating with the boys to stay out of a particular room. The mystery is, that the toys from her daughter’s childhood are shut in there, the girl having died of fever when young. This next page shows the boys plotting…

While waiting for more ideas to gel for the above scenarios, I started on another segment I wished to portray; that of myself as budding ballerina, or rather as I thought myself to be. I added a little colour to this page, trying to figure out just how much colour I wished to show per page.

The page rough below is a possibility for how the above scene might pan out.

I have kept on trialling a layout for each page as I work out my storyline, just in black and white sketches for now. I am using the smooth surfaced paper, which takes all mediums, and in turn the ink outlines I plan to use, plus watercolour for colour highlights. I have spoken about experiential learning in the past, and this project is certainly that! Any progress has to be good, at least that’s what I tell myself.