Emerging Star mixed media drawing. 2012 Private Collection
No, really, I am!
I found the opportunity to become featured on the "I am Access Art" pages of the Access Art web site some months ago; I can't remember exactly where, it could have been on Twitter or one of those opportunities for artists web sites.
Anyway, I sent off all the information they asked for and got on with life, as you do. I was delighted to hear back from them that I had been selected! It wasn't until many weeks later that I suddenly thought about it again and noted that I had not heard from them about when the pages would be produced and published and I assumed they had changed their minds. However, not one to be too pushy, I decided just to wait and bide my time. Which was a good decision because towards the end of the summer schools break, they popped up again, apologising profusely for the delay. Paula required a little more info and some more images for the exercise I have devised for the second part of the publication, which I duly supplied. I had thought that the pages would not go live until Monday 16th, but I am happy to say they are up already. Once I have been featured for the alloted time, the pages will be strored in their archive.
I am really pleased that the work looks so good on the site and that the exercise to make a layered drawing is up; I hope that people will have a go. In my experience of teaching, so many students are afraid of drawing until they realise there are different ways of doing it. So good luck to all the teachers and students that give it a go, I hope you will be as absorbed and delighted in the process as I am when I draw.
It was a pleasure to work with Paula Briggs, who edited my words with skill and sensitivity. I wish the Access Art web site continued success.
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