Tasmania Residency

I've done a bundle of little drawings from my imagination and a few from photographs. I've tried to sit down at different times and just make a number of fairly quick drawings. Using texta has been good for giving me instant colour and keeping my ideas flowing. The subject matter has mainly been little thoughts, memories or phrases that run through my head as I am sitting and drawing. I'm enjoying incorporating little bits of text with the drawings. Some of them are like little illustrations in a story. I think I need to keep working like this and produce more to get a better sense of what is going on. 

At the moment I'm also completing a big (very colourful) drawing in layers of pencil and texta. I found myself up at midnight last night scribbling away with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles playing in the background. I felt like I had travelled back to primary school age Jennifer where I would watch a lot of TV on long dark nights while colouring in school projects and drawing. I suppose using texta can't help but put you in a bit of a childish state of mind. The simplicity of the medium reminds me how much of a pleasure and release you can get from colour and the movement of physically drawing something onto paper.