tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52869402489322330802024-03-19T05:35:52.376-07:00Jess J.E. WatsonJess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-20760020945496032752012-05-17T13:26:00.003-07:002012-05-17T13:33:00.176-07:00Bunting: Part 1As part of the Diamond Festival (Hartlepool's Diamond Jubilee celebration weekend) our gang at work are putting on exciting events and also creating some really awesome kitschy bunting. It's inspired by the 1950s (and obviously the Queen) but strays away from the traditional red, white and blue. At first I thought the idea was a bit odd, given that people will be thinking union jack over that weekend but today as we ran our first couple of sessions printing it I totally started digging the vibe.<br />
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Because we didn't have a huge amount of attendees I got the chance to print a few (or else we'll never have enough to fill the bunting!) and also make some Jubilee themed stamps for others to use because a lot of our bunting had been based on 50s geometric prints and not a huge amount had the queen in it haha!<br />
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I really love these stamps and they are so easy (and cheap) to make and so effective! I'll probably stick a tutorial up once I buy myself some of the foam we use! My favourites are the Queen's head and the Cadillac (although the photo is blurry o.<). You see what I mean about the colour scheme but I seriously want some of this in my bedroom! All we used was acrylic paint (the cheaper stuff from the works), handmade stamps from the foam and fabric pens. I might give making my own bunting a go at this rate because I am loving it!</div>
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Also will people please remind me to stop taking pictures on my scummy, scummy floor! Such a bad backdrop!</div>
<br />Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-78020604456143404522012-05-15T14:32:00.004-07:002012-05-15T14:33:28.257-07:00Thrifty Finds: Knick KnacksHey what happened to Creative Tuesday!? Hopefully I might have something to share tomorrow but I wasn't so great over the weekend (my immune system seriously bloooows) so I didn't manage to get anything done and since then I've been busy at work...I know, I know, excuses, excuses. Oh well! I thought I'd share a few new (and one or two old) of my thrifted tackiness. I love everything kitsch and weird I can find in charity shops, boot sales etc especially travel souvenirs...you know those horribly tacky things people brought back in the 50s-70s when they started to head abroad? Love them!<br />
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<b>Shop:</b> Barnardos Hartlepool</div>
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This is a pretty recent purchase. It was a little steep for what it was but the mark on the bottom (which I forgot to photograph!) explained the pricing more or less. Still I love the psychedelic pattern and the creepy stoned bird. Even better when I looked at it this time I realised this particular range is called <i>Gaytime.</i>..here I thought it said something like Gamine. Classic name. I don't use it for it's proposed purpose of storing sauce (that's what a ketchup bottle is for) but rather for my fiddly, small earrings.</div>
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Here is somemore <i>Gaytime</i> pottery. That bird needs some serious rehab.</div>
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<b>Shop:</b> RSPCA Hartlepool</div>
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90p?! 90p?! What can you buy these days for that much?! I should say this set of five glasses has pretty much no use at all. They are the size of shot glasses but have little handles (so they look like teeny tiny pint glasses) with different animals on each. There are blue rabbits, green cats, yellow elephants, pink bears and off green ducks...It was a totally random find and when I brought it home my parents thought I'd lost it...but come on, for 90p you can't be robbed! I of course like the cats the best.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<b>Shop:</b> Arthritis Research Sunderland</div>
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This is one of my favourite holiday souvenirs, although it doesn't photograph well being cast in metal and all. It's very kitsch, though I have no idea of it's age at all. Still it was hard to pass up at that price! This is also a care of perseverance paying off. This particularly shop almost never has anything in and I am continually disappointed by the weird mix of funeral flowers, Primark tees and sparse shelves...but every now and then you find a gem!</div>
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<b>Shop:</b> Barnardos Hartlepool</div>
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I saw this as a display piece long before I actually bought it. The design made me think 1950s, as did the lovely gradient colour work but it has no marks on it whatsoever. It's just a clay vase and I probably spent too much on it but I really liked it...I'm still convinced they saw me looking at it for a price and then stuck one on knowing I would come back (since I'm a regular there!)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This badgers head is a real oldie. I bought him way back in my teen years at a French market, back in the days when the Euro was way different than the Pound (whereas now it's almost the same). I love this guy but he sat for about 10 years in a bag under my bed. It wasn't until we moved here that my dad stuck him up on the wall for me. Sometimes he wears a cat masquerade mask from Venice but not at the moment. I must admit he's in a pretty terrible condition and could do with a deep clean but I love his manic expression and somewhat wonky face...reminds me of myself!</span></span></div>
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And finally Missy wanted in on the action! And got a flash in her face for her troubles...sorry Miss!Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-54656737828168439022012-05-11T14:41:00.001-07:002012-05-11T14:41:08.387-07:00Collections: Children's BooksIn honour of Children's Book Week I thought I'd share a teeny portion of one of my largest collections...children's books! You might think that most of these have survived from when I was a child but you'd be wrong. I started collecting kids books in a big way when I was at university. I was doing a kids book illustration module and happened upon a huuuge amount of ex-library books that were between 10-30p and went a little mad buying them up haha. I'd collected in dribs and drabs before that but this is what really set me to it.<br />
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This is my recent haul from the Hartlepool Hospice shop Encore. They have a really big selection there and they are usually 50p or below. There were several cat themed ones including Grumpy Cat, Slinky Malinki and Who Will Play With Me? I particularly like Who Will Play With Me? Which is a weird combination book that has two stories that meet in the middle (one about a cat, one about a boy) which require you to flip the book. </div>
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Anyway I'll run through a small selection of my favorites. To be fair I don't generally buy kids books unless there is something about them that I like but it'd be a realllly long post if I wanted to talk about them all!</div>
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<b>Title: </b>Wild Animals</div>
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<b>Author/Illustrator:</b> Brian Wildsmith</div>
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This is a real oldie and I'm pretty sure this was a book my mam bought because she liked it. It's ex-library, as a lot of our books were when we were kids and it remains awesome. Wildsmith has this vibrant paint style that looks like a child's painting...if a child was reallly good. Story wise there really isn't any, it's just what you call different groups of animals but I remember spending hours staring at the images and trying to duplicate the style when I was little.</div>
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<b>Title:</b> Lost and Found</div>
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<b>Author/Illustrator: </b>Oliver Jeffers</div>
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<b>Title:</b> Storyland</div>
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I bought this book at a second hand market for 50p. I don't often go to markets because I don't really like haggling and as such probably end up paying premium...that and I prefer the warmth of a charity shop! It's a gorgeous book from 1960 with the most amazing colourful selection of illustrations. Some day I'd love to make some jewellry and t-shirts with them on because I love them that much. In terms of story I haven't actually read any but the short ones yet but they seem pretty old school and classic on that front!</div>
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<b>Title:</b> What-A-Mess and the Cat-Next-Door</div>
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<b>Author/Illustrator:</b> Frank Muir</div>
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All of us loved What-A-Mess in my family but oddly we only kept one book and they are really hard to come by these days...I think they are all out of print sadly. That said I think I've bought a few second hand since then. The appeal of What-A-Mess lay a little in the hapless main character and her antics (I think it was a she) but mostly in the lovely, complex illustrations. They always had so much going on with a huge cast of characters on every page and it was really fun trying to spot everything that was happening in them.</div>
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<b>Title:</b> A House is a House for Me</div>
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<b>Author:</b> Mary Ann Hoberman</div>
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This is probably my favorite kids book of all time. A combination of rhyming words that teach us about how pretty much everything is a house for something combined with beautifully complicated and interesting illustrations made me adore this book as a child. It also has an Alice in Wonderland spread in it...what's not to love?!</div>
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<b>Title:</b> Can't You Sleep Little Bear?</div>
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I remember this book from when I was very young but this isn't my original copy of it, rather it's a copy I picked up in a charity shop for not very much. It's a lovely story and appealed to me when I was a child because I was such a terrible sleeper and terrified of the dark. I'm still a terrible sleeper but the dark doesn't bother me!</div>
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<b>Title:</b> Tale of a One-Way Street</div>
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<b>Author:</b> Joan Aiken</div>
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This book is full of beautiful illustrations but is a more recent purchase. However I do have another book called 'A Necklace of Raindrops' that is by Joan Aiken and illustrated in the same style by Jan Pienkowski (of Meg and Mog fame) which I adored as a child. I've used Pienkowski's illustrations in these books many a time when teaching classes on silohuette art. Despite being silohuettes they are always complicated, magical and set on cleverly colourful backdrops. I have to say I prefer these to Meg and Mog, although maybe I liked Meg and Mog more when I was young!</div>
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Okay that was a loooong post but I thought it was appropriate to share a wee bit of my collection this week of all weeks!</div>Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-31056841028377780662012-05-08T16:09:00.001-07:002012-05-08T16:10:56.380-07:00Where The Wild Things Where<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's a sad day for children's book lovers everywhere because Maurice Sendak, the legend behind the book Where the Wild Things Are has passed away. He changed the face of children's illustration and storytelling, created hauntingly beautiful images that spoke of imagination, dreams and oddness and generally contributed a huge amount to the world in general. The world was a better place for his creations and I hope he knew that before the end. Rest in Peace Maurice Sendak.<br />
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On a happier note it's Children's Book Week so a perfect time to celebrate his life and work. Later on in the week I'll be posting up a peek into a few of my favorites from my vast collection. Also apologies for the mass posting today! I am sure I will behave from now on!Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-70915805822511878242012-05-08T15:02:00.002-07:002012-05-08T15:03:05.285-07:00A Little Tuesday FunOkay so I already posted once about being all creative but here's something that required more focus than creativity! I was in Hobbycraft over the weekend aghast at the price of craft equipment when I spotted this little gem in the clearance bin. I bought it more for the little plastic nib which I thought I could use with ink but the picture was so wonderfully tacky and reminded me of psychadelic dungeons and dragons..or the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WcJbPlAknw">Lord of the Rings cartoon movie</a> that came out in that era! Sadly I didn't take a picture before I scratched off all the silver but I did have fun doing it whilst watching Over the Hedge (Bruce Willis=Racoon=Winning Movie) on Sunday so I borrowed an image from another blog just to give you an idea of how it started. This guy is so going in a frame on my wall!<br />
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Also can I just apologize for the scummy, messy carpet in the photos. Yes that is my bedroom. Yes it needs a hoover badly. Yes I am a slob. Nuff said.</div>
<br />Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-35785357864034465122012-05-08T14:48:00.003-07:002012-05-08T14:48:58.254-07:00Creative Tuesdays: Unfinished WorkYou're probably wondering why I chose Tuesday as a day to showcase my recent creative pursuits...I find that Tuesday is kind of my dip in the week. I often don't work on Fridays so it's kind of my midweek and its always been a day I've sort of disliked...so why not make it into a positive! It's also a good time to showcase anything that I've been up to over the weekend without there being a mad rush to get it done for the Monday. Hey it makes sense in my head!<br />
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At the moment I'm in the process of digging out my room and generally reorganizing. This is kind of a necessity since I've been so heavy handed with my thrifting lately that I need to make extra room for it all! In the process I've had a mass exodus of my artwork that has gathered since collage a lot of years ago. Amongst this, much of which I threw out (hey, more reason to make more!) I found a fair few illustrations I'd started in my period of sparse employment from graduating to starting my current job.<br />
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I've always had a real problem with starting illustrations but losing interest about 70% of the way through...the way I draw is generally pretty labour intensive so that final slog can be hard unless you are super excited about what you're doing. So I found several pieces that I thought...hmmm...I should really finish these. Some are short graphic stories that are half done, some are just one off illustrations and I'm aiming to get them all finished. It's also a good excuse to get back into my illustration more without having that difficult blank page syndrome.<br />
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These are the illustrations that I'm looking to finish. You'll notice that one is already coloured, that's because I forgot to take the group shot until I had completed one of them...doh!</div>
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I also forgot to scan in the original and ended up photographing it when I'd already started blocking in the tin man. The image was somewhat drawn out (the main characters) but I hadn't added the priest/other mourners and given that I liked the main cast I decided to go without. I should explain I made this image when one of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/11/15/one-last-surviving-wizard-oz-munchkins-dies-at-3/">the last munchkin actors died</a>. The idea was that the old somewhat haggard cast would attend the funeral.</div>
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Today I thought I'd finished. The colours are just done with felttip pens (primarily <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faber-Castell-Pitt-Artists-Brush-Pen/dp/B001EKLOIM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336513554&sr=8-1">Faber-Castell Artist Brush Pens</a>). Me and colour have an odd relationship. Because I have primarily worked in black and white I'm not great at applying it. This might explain why I forgot to colour the coffin and Dorothy's skin. Doh!</div>
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So I tried adding those colours with photoshop but I'm not sure it really works. I might go back in at some point and add it in by hand but I'm relatively happy with the outcome considering how lacks I've been with my art of late. Not sure what I'll tackle next but I'm sure I'll enjoy the challenge!</div>Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-64578343879664622292012-05-07T14:08:00.002-07:002012-05-07T14:08:58.392-07:005 Monday Must Haves: RainbowOkay so must have is perhaps a tad misleading but they are definitely at the top of my list!<br />
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Also have you ever noticed there are the same number of letters in rainbow as there are colours in a rainbow? Pretty cool!</div>
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<b>This rainbow umbrella from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/16-Rib-Rainbow-Golf-Umbrella/dp/B0052TDK4C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336423758&sr=8-1">Amazon</a>! </b></div>
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Imagine on the rainiest, dullest of days having this to shelter under! Admittedly I have an umbrella with a cats face on but I could always switch it up.</div>
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I always found Rainbow a little creepy because of the weird homosexual foursome vibe between the three puppets and the presenter guy but the child drawing style and bright colours make up for those latent feelings.</div>
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<b>This rainbow dress by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/flourclothing">Flour Clothing</a></b></div>
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Sadly it's vintage and no longer available but I found the photo on <a href="http://seesawdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/flour-vintage.html">Seesaw Designs</a> blog so I can dream of someday finding one in a charity shop somewhere!</div>
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<b>This amazing bird flying over a rainbow necklace from <a href="http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/08/mixko-here-come.php">Mixko</a> which sadly is no longer trading. </b></div>
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<b>This bright necklace full of fun toys from <a href="http://starsandsprites.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/rainbow-necklace.html">Stars and Sprites</a></b></div>
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Loving this over the top accessory and you would never get bored because you could just play around with the charms on your neck!</div>
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<b>Charity Shop: </b>Barnardos Hartlepool</div>
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This little beaut was a tad expensive for me considering the condition but I loved the fact this jacket looks like a drawing. Oddly it had no lining so I don't know if it had degraded and been removed (since it is vintage) or what. I asked my mom if it is possible to add a new lining and she just looked as me as if I was mental...so I'm guessing it's not.</div>
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This is possibly one of my favorite finds for a long time. The design is soo graphic and makes me think of my granddad (who was a ship fanatic). It's by a shop called <a href="http://boohoo.com/">Boohoo.com</a> which I've never heard of but seems pretty awesome. This is one of my risky buys in that it says its a size 10 and on the top I'm a 14...however it looked big so I went for it. I was so pleased it fit! I think maybe it was designed to be loose on a size 10 but I think it looks pretty good on!</div>
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You'll probably notice that they are entirely from two charity shops. We have a fair few in Hartlepool but I've generally found that the RSPCA and Barnardos are the best value/best selection for clothes amongst the central shops. I don't generally go to the shops further afield in Hartlepool, though I know I should but these are a convenient little walk from work when I finish before 5pm!<br />
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<br />Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-33640617360647613002012-05-05T15:08:00.000-07:002012-05-06T16:41:49.031-07:00N.R.GOr the Newcastle Roller Girls, the crew that I was cheering on at today's roller derby 'Never Mind the Back Blocks'. My only previous experience of roller derby was the movie Whip It with Juno star Ellen Paige. I'd loved the cool, rockabilly camaraderie of a gang of girls beating the crap out of each other and I wasn't disappointed by the real thing! It was really brutal with girls going flying and taking spills whilst showing off their skate skills. I have to admit watching both matches was a bit too much (especially sitting on bleachers/hard floor) and there was a huge amount of stopping and starting but it was still a fun day out.<br />
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Here's a few pictures I took. I took a ton of them but the lighting was so bad that I struggled to take any that weren't totally blurry, especially of the roller girls themselves. Ah well. I love the colours in these photos, it looks very retro American high school gym and it was awesome to take out my trusty Canon EOS 40D.<br />
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Big shout out to the Walker Activity Dome which was the weird old futuristic style dome...it was like the future as imagined in the 1960s! It is 2012 after all...this is the future!<br />
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If you're interested in taking in a derby, the NRG have their own website <a href="http://newcastlerollergirls.co.uk/">here</a> and they're always looking for volunteers to help out with refereeing or just the general event. I would have loooved to sign up, get on some skates and maybe one day join the squad because those girls are awesome but because I don't live in Newcastle I can't really commit to practices...baah evilness. For now I will just have to stick at being an enthusiastic spectator!Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-83062911700062134182012-05-04T14:31:00.000-07:002012-05-06T16:40:14.575-07:00BANG!I had just got home from work today and was about to settle down for Come Dine With Me when there was an almighty crash at the window. I had my back turned at the time but my mom saw what she thinks was a bird of prey chase a poor little greenfinch right into our window. It's been a long while since we've had a dead bird on our hands (our cats are too old to catch birds) and even longer since one hit the window. I'm guessing he died instantly and this little chap looked so sad about his untimely end.<br />
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<br />Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-60936426875409147162012-05-04T09:33:00.005-07:002012-05-04T14:59:36.603-07:005 things I am thankful for<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooo whilst I get my head back into what I had in mind for my blog I thought I'd post some of my favorite songs. When we were in Amsterdam we had a drinking game (if that's the right word) that asked two questions: What song would we play at our funeral and if you were the last person on earth and everyone else had been wiped out what song would you play as your rocket headed for safety?</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll Meet Again</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Vera Lynn</span></div>
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Sadly I missed the Sex Museum because my brother and I had an earlier flight than the rest of the Amsterdam crew but alas you can't have it all.Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-3354980884813304922012-04-17T15:35:00.001-07:002012-04-17T15:35:16.549-07:00Bad BloggerI really am bad at this blogging thing! I ran off to the Lakes and since then I've been pretty much at work or getting ready for Amsterdam (where I go very early Thursday morning) so I haven't had much of a chance to do anything new illustration wise...damn! So here are a few old photos of mine to fill some blog space and make up for my absence. Once upon a time I had every intention of becoming a photographer but the fade kind of fizzled out...I think I have a certain degree of natural talent for photography but I don't find it terribly challenging in the way I do illustration...still I do love it and sometimes I look back and think 'man...I was better at that than I am at drawing...'<br />
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<br />Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-25702178378249216262012-03-31T16:46:00.001-07:002012-03-31T16:47:43.007-07:00More Dignity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Apologies for the blog silence! I was ill for my week off (fun times!) and then was busy back at work/getting ready to go on holiday...which I am now! I swung a king size bed too because its in the attic where only midgets can stand up straight (I'm not short...but I'm less than 6ft+ like the other possible residents!). The first is the comic I drew as an example for the kids sessions which I'll scan once I get it back. Then there is the second collage I designed at the start of the event and then at the end, when we'd finish. There is the exhibition and the space it's in and finally Maureen and myself putting the final collage into a frame...we didn't want to have to come back down to put it up!</div>
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<br />Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-39456937312023960892012-03-16T12:29:00.012-07:002012-03-16T13:50:44.515-07:00Sketches from training days<div><div style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="text-align: left; ">It's weird how I tend to learn incredibly visually. I've always been in trouble throughout school and collage for doodling during lessons but I </span><span style="text-align: left; ">realized</span><span style="text-align: left; "> when I was at sixth form that it really helps me to learn to be able to associate an image with a key piece of information. This is ho</span><span style="text-align: left; ">w I explained my bringing a sketchbook to our training days...instead of a notebook!</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Ok this one was more inspired by Skyrim...</i></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiba7lapGEwDmz2GOhLmJitxJASLoHg1Q_BEVRkKRvJTEsQaQ0d3QVayQxtnwZkSX7U-bJLPnYoj6qBF9z68O721HqmncJ40db8rL1ayqVJG6AbFKLNwdiwEGmBCRmeRUnBaul59bycIo/s1600/IMG_005.jpg" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiba7lapGEwDmz2GOhLmJitxJASLoHg1Q_BEVRkKRvJTEsQaQ0d3QVayQxtnwZkSX7U-bJLPnYoj6qBF9z68O721HqmncJ40db8rL1ayqVJG6AbFKLNwdiwEGmBCRmeRUnBaul59bycIo/s320/IMG_005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720596875255128562" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsk7WiFtQDE50kJj_O0tnE-MChsofppWqLJE4raMkSegEs4_5RyQfEqOz9_F3w1LXXZDvedpda7mzSb5Oe9_H1zO3mARipM3zjariG4zY3c3b9TSU3fQkw3RABqW8rCih7fmJKKq9myU4/s1600/IMG_004.jpg" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsk7WiFtQDE50kJj_O0tnE-MChsofppWqLJE4raMkSegEs4_5RyQfEqOz9_F3w1LXXZDvedpda7mzSb5Oe9_H1zO3mARipM3zjariG4zY3c3b9TSU3fQkw3RABqW8rCih7fmJKKq9myU4/s320/IMG_004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720596393295610194" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnB7wSaiCENKkkK4BzbSI6JhQtol6x9IKyXy_36cKVB7eUron8aYrvPo3jrsKc3HG6spy6Tln__hh5uvcaGxWajFraOd5HopVxbTL23hCHMwZFaE6DQnAyvGMl510KTEKjs7O2eEGkgE/s1600/IMG_003.jpg" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnB7wSaiCENKkkK4BzbSI6JhQtol6x9IKyXy_36cKVB7eUron8aYrvPo3jrsKc3HG6spy6Tln__hh5uvcaGxWajFraOd5HopVxbTL23hCHMwZFaE6DQnAyvGMl510KTEKjs7O2eEGkgE/s320/IMG_003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720596196978637234" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwlj8LOULVuLdR-CQv0zCo_uTE6GvqvUA_QGc1MX3TQTdQPB6cCnmZOrO1DlmvZ2obvOC_CSz-_wyM5cRycxX73qFH0lNr5BVeYafI09MtIpGK2gtlrxMkJHRd6YJ3w1m8BbX9tsNZ4Y/s1600/IMG_002.jpg" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwlj8LOULVuLdR-CQv0zCo_uTE6GvqvUA_QGc1MX3TQTdQPB6cCnmZOrO1DlmvZ2obvOC_CSz-_wyM5cRycxX73qFH0lNr5BVeYafI09MtIpGK2gtlrxMkJHRd6YJ3w1m8BbX9tsNZ4Y/s320/IMG_002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720595954143926594" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKigJiT6G4L8uFf50vT0twtoh8QTRC8BJP2L-cnCMZxz6RPZVsB4uWiSefCiPRfKbRYICL1HKJuu050Vj0i0ZrYglEjXw85oTVDxhAGE1_zf3n37sEduCdXJTSOP2oC65e0vm9-6EoAL8/s1600/IMG_001.jpg" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKigJiT6G4L8uFf50vT0twtoh8QTRC8BJP2L-cnCMZxz6RPZVsB4uWiSefCiPRfKbRYICL1HKJuu050Vj0i0ZrYglEjXw85oTVDxhAGE1_zf3n37sEduCdXJTSOP2oC65e0vm9-6EoAL8/s320/IMG_001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720595694503210770" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSqXXRTsh2C5MnJFlNN9V4tBXCd1Rd6vsu3EZu36OYpQvJh4b7wNG2Tc0YVfIP0IrfiPvFNGh7GKt4Og1m4IDivGo7klV6BJBSwAsp3ad9ly6RE19ny5TwaTkipIjPvynLoKkTPUqpJI/s1600/IMG.jpg" style="font-style: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSqXXRTsh2C5MnJFlNN9V4tBXCd1Rd6vsu3EZu36OYpQvJh4b7wNG2Tc0YVfIP0IrfiPvFNGh7GKt4Og1m4IDivGo7klV6BJBSwAsp3ad9ly6RE19ny5TwaTkipIjPvynLoKkTPUqpJI/s320/IMG.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720595525660906194" /></a>Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-61827170327334151922012-03-16T11:50:00.009-07:002012-03-16T12:28:58.496-07:00Dignity Poster Designs<div style="text-align: center;">Here are the sketches that were done for the collages. I started with rough sketches, consulted with our development worker Maureen and then chose a few to do larger in colour. We then chose two out of the four. I was inspired by the words freedom and being heard as well as drawing inspiration from album covers of the 1960s and propaganda posters, especially those of the second world war.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmCLQjONcsTX2X8UQGGYPlfiLC6_5zAFwsRQ6zXIiFJ9WeLcN-VBiEP3SCRnNuF0Stk0cr30DxvbsAsLCUat7nyyjstFJNJrZ4bYNnSdiqMSbbmq4WL7Y_Nj2UJisyYIFtNH_zE9-9mc/s1600/IMG_006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmCLQjONcsTX2X8UQGGYPlfiLC6_5zAFwsRQ6zXIiFJ9WeLcN-VBiEP3SCRnNuF0Stk0cr30DxvbsAsLCUat7nyyjstFJNJrZ4bYNnSdiqMSbbmq4WL7Y_Nj2UJisyYIFtNH_zE9-9mc/s320/IMG_006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720576657199920642" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFf1dAzz_rY4I_omaTERGdup0gocU59gIdYJ58KdMBTUdqeFAPkC-Z12GWPlsJAzzcuRko_2halgrgtuDf3qUhcIEYp5FHsifIlk1bObO9K81WBXY3bSwFrEoj-DiouqVHyVc7s52tXE/s1600/Dignity3.jpg" style="text-align: left; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFf1dAzz_rY4I_omaTERGdup0gocU59gIdYJ58KdMBTUdqeFAPkC-Z12GWPlsJAzzcuRko_2halgrgtuDf3qUhcIEYp5FHsifIlk1bObO9K81WBXY3bSwFrEoj-DiouqVHyVc7s52tXE/s320/Dignity3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720575097405750754" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This was a little too heritage/countryside campaign</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFf1dAzz_rY4I_omaTERGdup0gocU59gIdYJ58KdMBTUdqeFAPkC-Z12GWPlsJAzzcuRko_2halgrgtuDf3qUhcIEYp5FHsifIlk1bObO9K81WBXY3bSwFrEoj-DiouqVHyVc7s52tXE/s1600/Dignity3.jpg"><br /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gk8wLo9sjdSKY9DsRlIa5qADgUn4CoApeIotcfHDklKl459DjforM7jtWrlusueAo6aCBW_XFUU5C60bYirPKZHLiF6SAfg8K62tfjM4PssLxQJVw1MoM3MCbr0lsag_SsyDm7P6OHc/s1600/Dignity2.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFf1dAzz_rY4I_omaTERGdup0gocU59gIdYJ58KdMBTUdqeFAPkC-Z12GWPlsJAzzcuRko_2halgrgtuDf3qUhcIEYp5FHsifIlk1bObO9K81WBXY3bSwFrEoj-DiouqVHyVc7s52tXE/s1600/Dignity3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhM21juikAIc4FUYVBhmcKXDcBDBleNSV4gDQji6fhrcx21UZqCQ4phnk5KulW3DBLT_HSkKW9wFGvOmesU3hyKj6eom9WrkZnft4JkWzmacHGvEk8C14YH5SNI9WzaHvcvpynF2-4-4o/s320/Dignity4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720576084237912354" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Everyone was a fan of this one but I felt it was less dramatic than the others. I do like the slogan though, taken from a nuclear war poster</i>.</div></div><div><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gk8wLo9sjdSKY9DsRlIa5qADgUn4CoApeIotcfHDklKl459DjforM7jtWrlusueAo6aCBW_XFUU5C60bYirPKZHLiF6SAfg8K62tfjM4PssLxQJVw1MoM3MCbr0lsag_SsyDm7P6OHc/s1600/Dignity2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gk8wLo9sjdSKY9DsRlIa5qADgUn4CoApeIotcfHDklKl459DjforM7jtWrlusueAo6aCBW_XFUU5C60bYirPKZHLiF6SAfg8K62tfjM4PssLxQJVw1MoM3MCbr0lsag_SsyDm7P6OHc/s320/Dignity2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720572513939006994" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This was one of the posters that went on to be produced as a collage. I like how patriotic and empowered the characters look and the final image was really striking. </i></div></div><div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3qtN7c7RTsAt8cMZnhAoM2iJFB-QGj1ME0ZoX-647vlGaQmGsEF3BWl1sBrkImup2ojP5vvIrnThORXNsjAAylrku8fMhQAJ-ls8asFczBYgkFAC_T_KQdbcFT0cLqi17y2Mpmnz1V54/s1600/Dignity1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3qtN7c7RTsAt8cMZnhAoM2iJFB-QGj1ME0ZoX-647vlGaQmGsEF3BWl1sBrkImup2ojP5vvIrnThORXNsjAAylrku8fMhQAJ-ls8asFczBYgkFAC_T_KQdbcFT0cLqi17y2Mpmnz1V54/s320/Dignity1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720571185825910898" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This was the other image we chose to create. This was far easier to make in collage because it's a lot more graphic and the shapes are much more simplified. I think perhaps that's why its so effective. </i></div></i></div><div><br /></div><div>I intend to try and get some of these done as proper, finished artworks, hopefully next week when I'm on leave.</div></div>Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-83466380373865959822012-03-16T09:37:00.010-07:002012-03-16T13:49:54.492-07:00Dignity Month<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55R3OVwNTJO62hEyWDyJcWKwGUBY57L5sqsCIEMP1A6RrqKLQNjPGj_reIZgr3w0aAXoTsaxbiwe7bnvN0lNJVR_Me8Zd9jswOF4B7hBcZGkuzsJd4Jelo5nqV3S-XXocBUPIrgJXA3Q/s1600/Invite3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55R3OVwNTJO62hEyWDyJcWKwGUBY57L5sqsCIEMP1A6RrqKLQNjPGj_reIZgr3w0aAXoTsaxbiwe7bnvN0lNJVR_Me8Zd9jswOF4B7hBcZGkuzsJd4Jelo5nqV3S-XXocBUPIrgJXA3Q/s320/Invite3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720600035081175874" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6mWRcgUo8VEtYIW2VCg0RLZCph3NcbSurhFybC2q8vYQvIi6UeZMwfh4f3RZehpUsmfE3y66n2_eqXi9p-xK5OZAPbLBfgyUa7RUYh3TvEWPCxlzxPacLpF4knDwjvMT3oCS_XhyUtk/s1600/DignityMonthPosterA4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6mWRcgUo8VEtYIW2VCg0RLZCph3NcbSurhFybC2q8vYQvIi6UeZMwfh4f3RZehpUsmfE3y66n2_eqXi9p-xK5OZAPbLBfgyUa7RUYh3TvEWPCxlzxPacLpF4knDwjvMT3oCS_XhyUtk/s320/DignityMonthPosterA4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720599907559688594" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-f-H_11Y9khzn3OrYMy1i2cRD1H8iL_MrP7yB_jcsyKrOuyIOlGfko3ZPu_0svnE9FCSgz0yvL_Ni7h-_wUe4yYgc0I8UDz9kw2N8X1PiHk8hpI9yVD-JnDK_T3IFRCRf41lo1lxqWD4/s1600/DignityMonthKidsPoster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-f-H_11Y9khzn3OrYMy1i2cRD1H8iL_MrP7yB_jcsyKrOuyIOlGfko3ZPu_0svnE9FCSgz0yvL_Ni7h-_wUe4yYgc0I8UDz9kw2N8X1PiHk8hpI9yVD-JnDK_T3IFRCRf41lo1lxqWD4/s320/DignityMonthKidsPoster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720599740339273058" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC8J1GQ9pn_h-dfEozYy62PqkoYX_-zKFTIXsgWw9fINw3O390W9nRIwkfRUQqR9wOXhac7EaizxEuvTPtjJwMthIwXuaOsMMtSrZKW2G7n7VIUPQOhZ21aiLM5_X1XiebWjT7SzBibvQ/s1600/digwords2.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC8J1GQ9pn_h-dfEozYy62PqkoYX_-zKFTIXsgWw9fINw3O390W9nRIwkfRUQqR9wOXhac7EaizxEuvTPtjJwMthIwXuaOsMMtSrZKW2G7n7VIUPQOhZ21aiLM5_X1XiebWjT7SzBibvQ/s320/digwords2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720598493902472370" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px; " /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zk8MPg8uHtEVujTiSNe492aef0rtIMlkN59BUsw7syjdPL9NmCtjEW8-kYmA4UUrzaTJ3JIVcrUBhVEnhHMtx8AZICGU5sHp7nCfT4y2dAxZmRCsEWsMUjnu0xKM-yhHMvPJkPhyxS8/s1600/digwords.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zk8MPg8uHtEVujTiSNe492aef0rtIMlkN59BUsw7syjdPL9NmCtjEW8-kYmA4UUrzaTJ3JIVcrUBhVEnhHMtx8AZICGU5sHp7nCfT4y2dAxZmRCsEWsMUjnu0xKM-yhHMvPJkPhyxS8/s320/digwords.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720598345127476242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px; " /></a><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; "><i style="text-align: center; "><div style="display: inline !important; "><i>Some of the promo stuff I made for the events. The initial poster, poster for kids session, the invite and the two word panels (words provided by attendees of sessions)</i></div></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">Our service was asked to put on an event for Dignity Awareness</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; "> Day/Dignity in Care Campaign and we took it a little further...and made a month of it! My</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; text-align: left; ">self and our development worker put together a programme of sessions leading up to an exhibition that would both promote our service and the Dignity Cam</span><span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; ">paign</span><span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; ">but also showcase all the work created. Myself and another sessional worker Michelle went on tour, using the awesome</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "> (though sadly closing soon) Arts Hartlepool Unit to deliver a range of sessions starting with banner making on textiles with each person creating an A4 'patch' to be sewn into the bigger banners on what dignity meant to them.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">We then wrangled a lot of children during half term to create </span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">their own 'Dignity Champions', superheroes that embodied dignity. First they designed and drew some amazing characters such as Potato man (he fills you up when you're hungry) and Rainbow Girl (she makes everything good). Some of the older ones made comic strips whi</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">lst the younger all made masks to transform them into their characters.</span></div><div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="text-align: center; "></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center; "></div><div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br /></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, serif; "></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><div></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "></div><div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family: Georgia, serif; ">We then did outreach work with sheltered accommodation for which I designed a number of poster designs inspired by propaganda posters and 1960s psychedelia (don't ask) and then we made very large 'paper mosaic' collage versions of them, with two separate designs</div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family: Georgia, serif; ">, one of which was finished at the launch party rather than leaving me to do it all!</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><div style="text-align: center; "></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><div><div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; font-family: Georgia, serif; ">Our launch event went really well, with a lot of the participants showing up for cheese and cupcakes. It was definitely worth the blood, sweat and tears we put into getting it up in time!</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; ">More pictures to come. I seem to have left my memory stick at work...doh!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286940248932233080.post-23626215928268311182012-03-16T09:26:00.002-07:002012-03-16T09:35:46.079-07:00Welcome<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbgEEbZPg4m27iwiFu6aGW4WjD-A8US9RywlNJ_hy1S0Yq1ErOhWFmQehGwU-Bij6GYn0k20E7JgHmaeD4I6vUSODAmoPAWitYWesyDwQ9bxT0MfU4i7UTjybrrog7sM5ltjjo55Cq6Ac/s1600/welcome.jpg.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbgEEbZPg4m27iwiFu6aGW4WjD-A8US9RywlNJ_hy1S0Yq1ErOhWFmQehGwU-Bij6GYn0k20E7JgHmaeD4I6vUSODAmoPAWitYWesyDwQ9bxT0MfU4i7UTjybrrog7sM5ltjjo55Cq6Ac/s320/welcome.jpg.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720534474748057218" /></a><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; ">Welcome to my new blog! Because of the nature of my work and because monsters really didn't have a huge deal to do with me I've created this blog as a replacement. I'm hoping my followers will find their way here! I stopped blogging for a while but I'm hoping that'll change now! I've </span><span >been <span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">sorting myself out. I've got myself a job delivering sessions, primarily art, to people with mental health needs after doing odds and ends with various groups all over the North East. I've been really lucky to be there from the start of the service and work as part of a great team. I also get to do illustration and promotional material for them as part of my job too! I'm hoping now I have an income I can get back to my blogging, drawing, creating and all sorts. I'll include some of my work that I do for work (examples, promotional material etc) but also stuff I've been doing for myself too. I'm also updating the look of my blog so don't worry if it keeps changing. Prepare for a bombardment whilst I do some catch up!</span></span></div>Jess Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12231385781959710866noreply@blogger.com1