tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40524288571908349232024-03-18T03:03:28.514+00:00An Artist's Life For Me!Sit on the shoulder of a working artist and nosy into the ups and downs of my world. Stow away on my adventures, to learn how my reportage-sketching works; watch how my picture books are created, from your spy-hole inside my studio; sneak a peak into my sketchbooks; join me on my newest exploration into the colourful world of textiles... and be there to help me tear my hair when things aren't going to plan!Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.comBlogger1325125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-27041820902003158172020-01-17T17:05:00.002+00:002020-01-17T17:05:33.914+00:00A Sneaky Peek Inside my Studio!<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I recently had a big tidy-up in the studio. It was triggered by getting some wonderful new storage from my Mum's house, with lots and lots of little drawers (so now I can actually find stuff). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It's the first time I've been able to see my window sills in as long as I can remember. They were piled high with bit and bobs, and bags of bits and bobs, all stuff that didn't really have a home, so got dumped there. I had to wipe up year's worth of dead flies and dust when I cleared them of clutter! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I'm sorry I have been lax in telling you about what I've been up to for some time. Basically, I discovered that I was spending more time administrating all my social media platforms than creating actual artwork. So I decided to take a break from regular blogging, to get myself back on track. I will try and look in more often. In the meantime, I now have </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lynnechapmantextiles/?modal=admin_todo_tour" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">a Facebook page</a><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> dedicated to my textiles creations, which has photos of all my recent projects, the stuff that hasn't yet made it onto my website.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-88373813422784824362019-06-04T12:31:00.002+01:002019-06-04T12:31:37.867+01:00I Have a New Website!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #20124d;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So do <i><a href="https://lynnechapmantextiles.co.uk/" target="_blank">take a look</a></i> and let me know what you think. Plus you can use the social media buttons (at the bottom of each of the site's pages) to share, which would be great, because I really want to try and let people know what I'm doing. </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-42701138097948837362019-02-08T16:36:00.001+00:002019-02-08T16:46:42.877+00:00Moving into 3D - Textile Sculptures<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone who has been following new textile work, will have noticed how quickly the work is evolving. It started in 2016, when I began <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2016/09/experimentation-drawing-in-stitch.html" target="_blank">reinterpreting representational artwork</a></i> from my sketchbooks, to see what would happen. But over the course of a year, things rapidly became more abstract, with <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/04/more-experiments-in-stitch.html" target="_blank">explorations of mark-making</a></i> at the work's core. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But my textile work so far has always been two dimensional. More than that - I have been a working artist for 40 years, but I have always seen myself as a 2D artist. However, something radical has happened since Christmas - I have started making things! </span></div>
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</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-5868428232005843702019-01-08T19:03:00.001+00:002019-01-08T19:03:33.575+00:00Cystic Fibrosis: New Sketch-Project<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />Happy New Year folks! Hope you all had a good Christmas and a nice rest. Mine was lovely. I enjoyed relaxing, but also did some stitching: I started something new straight after <a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/12/unbound-exhibition-of-my-textiles.html">the exhibition</a> came down. I'll show you when it's done.<br /><br />Anyway, remember back in November, I was <a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/11/making-more-concertina-sketchbooks.html">making more concertina sketchbooks</a>, preparing for a <a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/07/big-news-new-residency-exploring-cystic.html">new residency</a>, working with York University? Well, I have now done two sketching days and, so far, it is all going really well.</div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I have been going into the hospital registration and waiting areas after the interviews, trying to capture the environments which come up in the interviews. This makes things more visually varied, but also helps to give context to the quotes I'm recording. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The only trouble is, since the actual interviews are over by that stage, I have had to rely on the researcher's notes / recordings, to add additional text to those sections of the sketchbooks, after the event, otherwise the sketchbooks wouldn't flow properly. This was a technique I used a lot <i><a href="https://www.sketchingworkdesign.com/work-design-sketches" target="_blank">in Australia</a></i>, because in some environments it was hard to hear what was being said, or too difficult to listen and draw at the same time.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-33162269724900990192018-12-20T12:48:00.001+00:002018-12-20T12:50:22.623+00:00UNBOUND: Exhibition of my Textiles<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have not shown my textiles work since the <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/10/considering-key-themes-within-my-work.html" target="_blank">Orchard Square residency</a></i> exhibition. I have created so much new work since then, which seems crazy, given it was only 9 months ago and I spent 4 of those months <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/03/australian-residency-sheep-shearing.html" target="_blank">away in Australia</a></i>, so not stitching at all. </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-60642134148089174192018-12-03T10:51:00.001+00:002018-12-20T12:57:14.473+00:00A Day-in-the-Life of a Construction-Site Manager<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #20124d;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remember back in the summer, I did a project with York University, looking at <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-day-in-life-of-architect.html" target="_blank">what architects do all day</a></i>? Well, the researchers were so pleased with <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/08/illustrations-of-day-in-life.html" target="_blank">the results</a></i>, they asked me to do another, similar project - they wanted to carry on to the next stage of the building process and look at what happens when the plans get to the building site.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Come 7am, I had already checked out of the hotel with the researcher, Chrissy, and we were trailing our wheelie-suitcases through the still dark streets of Rochdale in the rain, following Google Maps. The site soon loomed up - it was so big it engulfed most of the town centre. Luckily we were given a brew as soon as we got on-site, then we were kitted out in the obligatory big boots, reflective jackets and hardhats. Amazingly, they found some in my size. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This day was all part of a much larger body of research, <i><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/current-research/nettleton,-daryl-martin-chrissy-buse/" target="_blank">Buildings in the Making</a></i>, about how you create buildings which are truly fit for purpose, how healthy they are for us and how buildings we work and live in make us feel. The researchers are mostly interested in the issues around architecture for hospitals and care homes. This work is linked to the residency I'm currently doing <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/07/big-news-new-residency-exploring-cystic.html" target="_blank">on Cystic Fybrosis clinics</a></i> in hospitals - it's the same research team.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-25104648814796830662018-11-27T10:14:00.001+00:002018-11-27T10:15:14.163+00:00Mounting Work for my Exhibition<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm spending this week getting ready for <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/11/im-having-exhibition-of-my-textiles.html" target="_blank">my exhibition</a></i>. It's less than 2 weeks away! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #20124d; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I have been working hard and so have a plan's chest drawer full of textile pieces which need mounting up:</span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-31469037480981875762018-11-14T16:49:00.000+00:002018-11-14T16:49:01.277+00:00Exhibition of my Australia Sketchbooks<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I finished <i><u><a href="https://www.sketchingworkdesign.com/work-design-sketches" target="_blank">my Australian residency</a> </u></i>back in May this year, we didn't have a proper exhibition of the work at the time, just in informal event with wine and nibbles, in the research centre itself:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The project is going to talk to individual patients at hospitals in Leeds, Liverpool and York, while I sketch, to discover how they feel the 'segregation' strategies work for them and what the environment feels like from their perspective.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Anyway, if you are also a sketcher, I thought you might like to have a go at making some easy mini-concertinas at home. This time I am making them from standard sheets (76cm x 55cm) rather than <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-make-35-concertina-sketchbooks.html" target="_blank">from a roll</a></i>, which is much more straight forward. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">You start by scoring, ready for the folds. Working down the longer side of the paper, measure and lightly mark at 30.5cm and again at 61cm. Do this top and bottom, then score down right across the sheet at the two sets of marks. I have a special scoring tool, which is very handy, but a dead biro will work just as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi all. Sorry for the absence. I have been trying to concentrate on my work, specifically, I've been getting stuck into my hand-stitched textiles. I am building up a new body of work, getting ready for my exhibition in a month's time, at KIAC, here in Sheffield.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My work has been evolving since I got back from <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/search/label/UWA" target="_blank">Australia</a></i>. The trip was a long time to break off from what I was doing; after four months I felt I'd lost my momentum. But it's turned out well in the end, as it made me pause, assess the work so far, and think about what I was interested in. As a result, a lot of the newest pieces are a reflection of my fascination with passing time. This has been a preoccupation for a while, but in the past it has been more a part of my <i><a href="http://www.lynnechapmanurbansketching.co.uk/" target="_blank">reportage sketch-work</a></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in June, I was commissioned to write a 900-word article for <i>Artists & Illustrators</i> magazine. I do enjoy writing so, of course, I said YES. Two or three years back, someone from t<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #20124d; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">he magazine </span><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2016/03/interview-with-artists-illustrators.html" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>came to the studio</i><span style="color: #002000;"> -</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #20124d; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> it was just after my <i><a href="https://www.craftsy.com/drawing/classes/expressive-picture-book-characters/45923?cr_maid=101284&cr_linkid=764_101284&cr_source=Lynne%20Chapman&couponCode=25OFF_SELECT_LISTING_45923_LYNNE_CHAPMAN&cr_medium=Instructor">Craftsy Class</a></i> went live - and did a rather lovely interview about my children's illustration. Thing was, I was all excited about urban sketching at the time, which I naturally told them all about, so </span><i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/03/my-new-urban-sketching-article.html">last year</a></i>, they got in touch again, to ask me to write them a piece about that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, back to that envelope...<br /><br />There's such a long gap between doing work and it coming out, it always comes as a lovely surprise when you finally get the finished article arrive in the post, all published and shiny. I was delighted with the fact that the article is spread across 3 pages and that they have used so many illustrations (though I suspect they may have had to cut some of the words to fit them all on). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't recommend the magazine highly enough by the way - it has some really interesting features (and I'm not just saying that because I'm in it!)</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-17546159272547256772018-08-21T16:18:00.000+01:002018-08-21T16:18:09.951+01:00I'm Auctioning another Tree Painting<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #20124d;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wanted to let you know that I am auctioning off another of my tree paintings. This time it is a watercolour I painted on Briar Road in Sheffield, <span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">created on heavy quality, watercolour paper, measuring 28 x 37cm.</span> Th</span>e <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-tree-for-trees.html" target="_blank">last one sold for £200</a></i> in the end, which was wonderful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you would like to own this painting, you can bid on the <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/STAGAuctionSalesFundraiser/?hc_ref=ARTyvmz_Fw69-_QxIB_RLzsOARBr-YTc-3A0u1LyV_y0mFt1Ugqv6PnqtK198qMK0wo&fref=nf" target="_blank">auction website</a></i> or, if you are not on Facebook, you can <i><a href="mailto:contact@lynnechapman.co.uk" target="_blank">email me your bid</a></i>. There are lots of other lovely things for sale on the STAG auction site, so it's well worth a bit of a look.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All proceeds go to the <i><a href="https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/sheffield-tree-protectors-court-costs" target="_blank">legal fund</a></i> to support the <i><a href="https://savesheffieldtrees.org.uk/" target="_blank">Sheffield Tree Action Group</a></i>'s protests against the council's intention of chopping down yet more healthy, mature trees in Sheffield. It's been a long, hard struggle and thousands of trees across the city have been destroyed, but we have <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216254993395076&set=a.10200223227690953.2188231.1460241773&type=3&theater&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&notif_id=1533935417943900" target="_blank">had some success recently </a></i>and the council have been forced to meet with protesters to discuss ways of managing the situation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, whether you are interested in helping to save Sheffield's dwindling numbers of mature street trees, or just like the idea of a lovely tree painting on your wall, <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/STAGAuctionSalesFundraiser/photos/a.2020237468238706.1073741828.1964253533837100/2105081286420990/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">get your bid in now!</a> </i>You just leave the bid as a comment on the post. Easy peasy.</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-88380659845689371502018-08-17T14:10:00.000+01:002018-08-17T14:10:13.934+01:00Instagram Take-Over Day<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #20124d;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next Wednesday, I am going to be taking over the <i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hobbycrafthq/">Instagram page</a></i> of Hobbycraft. I was invited to do it via someone at Derwent Pencils, who sometimes sponsor me by <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/search?q=derwent">sending me lovely parcels</a></i> of free art materials. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was a bit confused about what it was all about at first, but it turns out that what they want me to do is to select some of my drawings, which will then be posted to the <i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hobbycrafthq/">Hobbycraft Instagram</a></i> page over the course of the day. I will also be around to answer any questions posted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I made a little film in the studio too, to introduce myself, give a quick tour round my workspace, and show some examples of what I do. Here's a sneak preview:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If anyone doesn't already follow me on Instagram, you might want to know that <i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lynnepencil/">my personal account is here</a></i>. I regularly post drawings, paintings, photographs (usually of lovely, grungy, rusty textures) and my textiles pieces too. Take a look.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway, maybe I'll 'see' some of you on Wednesday. Hope you enjoy the film.</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-1264268980002114852018-08-14T13:22:00.002+01:002018-12-20T12:57:35.819+00:00Illustrations of 'A-Day-in-the-Life'<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my last post, I told you about the <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-day-in-life-of-architect.html" target="_blank">day of sketching</a></i> I did in the offices of a team of architects. If you remember, it was slightly different to my usual work: this time, the client wanted the sketches as part of an illustration for a report. </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-66892552163127991482018-08-06T13:42:00.000+01:002018-12-20T12:58:10.256+00:00A Day in the Life of an Architect<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know they design buildings and spaces, probably more on a computer than at a drawing board these days, but that's where my knowledge stops. Or stopped. Last week, as it happens, I got the opportunity to find out, first hand, and I took along my sketchbook, naturally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wasn't that happy about doing it though, because I didn't want to draw it from imagination, since I had no clear idea what they do, or what their environment might look like. I said the drawings would have much more of an authentic and natural feel if I was able to see and draw an architect actually at work. So the researcher paid me to spent a day at an architect's practice near Selby. Perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They were tucked away in the grounds of a stately home turned hotel, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It was quite a journey to get there. I arrived just as people were preparing for a big meeting. My job was to shadow one particular architect, April, and sketch her activities through the day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was very animated, with lots of back and forth, pointing at drawings and making changes to plans because of various problems. It was much more tricky to capture than all those meetings <i><a href="http://www.lynnechapmanurbansketching.co.uk/portfolio/morgan-centre/" target="_blank">at the Morgan Centre</a></i>, where people mostly sat and listened, but I did my best. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So it was a far more sociable job than I might have anticipated. It seemed like fairly high pressure though. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the letters had drawings on them, so I could tell which books I had read. I'm pretty sure the one above must be the itchy gorilla from <b><i><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/books/itch-scratch/" target="_blank">An Itch to Scratch </a></i></b>(though he has grown a tail and evolved into a monkey). Hayden's letter, below, had three different characters: the <b><i><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/books/bears-stairs/" target="_blank">Bears on the Stairs</a></i></b> little bear, in his stripy shorts, the <b><i><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/books/class-two-at-the-zoo/" target="_blank">Class Two at the Zoo</a></i></b> anaconda, now with added sting, and I recognised the monster from <b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2985383-rocky-and-the-lamb" target="_blank">Rocky and the Lamb </a></i></b>too, leaping out of his magic box:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Followers who live in Sheffield (and even some who don't) will know about the <i><a href="https://savesheffieldtrees.org.uk/" target="_blank">tree campaign</a></i> that's raging here. We have been fighting the council for 5 years now, trying to prevent them from cutting down our street trees (many of them over 100 years old), simply to make it cheaper to maintain our roads and pavements. They have ravaged the city already and cut down 5,500 street trees, but campaigners have finally managed to bring it to a halt, for the moment. There have been injunctions, arrests and court cases, even though protesters have been peaceful, many of them pensioners, just standing under trees to hamper the felling. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It started off very slowly and for ages it looked like we would only get £70, which was a bit of a disappointment to be honest. Despite spending ages posting it all over Facebook, things were deadly quiet for days. I grew despondent. Then suddenly, a couple of days before the deadline, two people got involved who bid against each other until we got to £200. Fantastic - that's more like it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who have been following me for a long time, will have watched the unfolding of quite a few changes in my work. When I <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2008/08/hello-world.html" target="_blank">first started this blog</a></i>, almost exactly 10 years ago, I was working as a full-time picture book illustrator. I had just finished the artwork for <i><b><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/books/dragons-dinner/" target="_blank">Dragon's Dinner</a></b></i>. I was at the peak of my time in children's publishing, <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-have-won-award.html" target="_blank">winning awards </a></i>and performing at major festivals like <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2009/06/our-day-at-hay.html" target="_blank">Hay</a></i> and <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2009/08/live-from-edinburgh.html" target="_blank">Edinburgh</a></i>. I had no plans for things to change and could not have imagined what the coming years would bring.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was during that year, I was <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2008/12/very-flattering-invitation.html" target="_blank">invited to join Urban Sketchers</a></i> and become a correspondent. Again, I could not have known how important that invitation would be for my future adventures. It almost immediately took me <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2011/07/lisbon-sketching-symposium.html" target="_blank">to Lisbon</a></i>, for my first Urban Sketchers Symposium then, the following year, I was invited to run a workshop in <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2012/07/im-back.html" target="_blank">Santa Domingo</a></i>! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had always found the isolation of studio work frustrating - I am a people person - so the <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/08/paint-paddle-urban-sketching-in-chicago.html" target="_blank">international travels</a></i> which urban sketching brought, really opened out my life. I got extraordinary opportunities to work alongside artists from all around the globe. Who would have thought I could wind up sketching on the <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2014/09/urban-sketchers-do-battle-with.html" target="_blank">Sugarloaf mountain in Brazil</a></i>!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 years on, I find myself in an entirely new place. Okay, I am still based in my lovely attic studio in Sheffield, but I no longer illustrate picture books. My new creative life has two very different facets. The urban sketching has evolved into my research-sketching work, which still occasionally takes me off on <a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2018/03/australian-residency-sheep-shearing.html" target="_blank"><i>adventures overseas</i>.</a> Anyone who has been looking in lately will know all about my <i><a href="https://www.sketchingworkdesign.com/" target="_blank">research work in Australia</a></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, we didn't get the funding for that project, but that little seed had already grown roots and I couldn't shift it. I decided to explore the idea anyway and, my goodness, what an exciting plant it is developing into! The early textiles pieces were based on specific sketches, with me trying out the new language of stitch and exploring different ways of using it. When I was funded for a 2-month <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2017/10/considering-key-themes-within-my-work.html" target="_blank">residency at Orchard Square</a></i>, I felt for the first time that this was more than just play, that it was a legitimate path of work for me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The textiles work has now evolved away from the sketches and, on my 10-year blog anniversary, I am enjoying two thoroughly rewarding, but very different avenues of work. It might seem odd to be following two such disparate paths at once, but it feels good, and the shift back and forth keeps both things fresh. I suppose it's similar to the way I used to shift back and forth between my <i><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/#" target="_blank">book illustrations</a></i> and my <i><a href="http://www.lynnechapmanurbansketching.co.uk/personal-sketchbooks/" target="_blank">sketchbooks</a></i>. They were very different too and I needed the contrast to keep my creativity from going stale. Does that make sense?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more observant amongst you might have noticed a subtle difference in the blog today. Ten years on, I have realised that the label 'illustrator' is no longer the best way to describe myself. So I have re-named the blog <i><b>An Artist's Life for Me!</b></i> I feel that better encompasses the new and exciting things I am doing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a journey. Thank you so much for coming along on the ride. I hope it has been interesting for you, Gentle Reader, and continues to be so. I wonder what the next 10 years hold in store? </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-56062384519247623392018-07-16T12:11:00.000+01:002018-07-16T12:11:18.395+01:00A New (Sort-of) Website for my Textiles<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing which has been happening, is that I have been applying for funding for projects to do with my textiles work. Doing this is a bit boring - there's lots of sitting at a computer filling in forms - but it does help focus your mind on what you are doing and want to do. Anyway, I immediately realised that I needed a website which showcased the work, and my existing websites, for the <i><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/" target="_blank">children's books</a></i> and the <i><a href="http://www.lynnechapmanurbansketching.co.uk/" target="_blank">research-sketching</a></i>, just confuse matters, when it comes to promoting my textiles.</span></div>
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I was meeting just the KS1 children, so it was a day of wall-to-wall storytelling. I started with them all together in the hall, did some drawing at the flipchart, then read <b><i><a href="https://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/books/class-two-at-the-zoo/" target="_blank">Class Two at the Zoo</a></i></b>, always a favourite. </div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a couple more days of sketching to do myself before I fly home - jobs which fell off the end earlier in the residency. I'll tell you about them when I get home.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see more of my work at www.lynnechapman.co.uk</div>Lynne the Pencilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204943065923019653noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052428857190834923.post-55420458062539503772018-03-09T09:05:00.001+00:002018-03-09T14:40:30.568+00:00Sketching Competition - Big Cash prizes!<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Announcing a brand new SKETCHING COMPETITION!! It is absolutely f</span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ree to enter and open to sketchers in all countries. But the extra brilliant bit is that we have a 1st prize of $1500AUS to give away (yahoooo!) and $500 for the runner-up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The competition is linked to my <i><a href="https://lynnechapman.blogspot.com.au/search/label/residency" target="_blank">sketching-residency</a></i> at the University of Western Australia. I have been sketching different people's jobs for a few weeks now, so the theme of the competition is also 'capturing work'. We would like you to choose a particular job to sketch. It could be your own job or a friend's. We want you to draw things which show what the work is like, using images and text to tell us what the person feels about the work they do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I really hope everyone will have a go. It is relevant to all levels, as we are just as interested in how interesting and communicative the 'story' of your sketches is, as we are in the quality of the drawings themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The deadline is April 23rd, so you have a bit of time, but take a look at <i><a href="https://www.sketchingworkdesign.com/sketching-competion" target="_blank">the details</a></i> now, so you can be thinking about what you want to draw.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you need inspiration, take a look at <i><a href="https://www.sketchingworkdesign.com/" target="_blank">the website for my Work Design residency</a></i> at UWA, where you can see some of the <i><a href="https://www.sketchingworkdesign.com/work-design-sketches" target="_blank">workplace sketches </a></i>I have been doing for the project.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm really looking forward to seeing what you sketch. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please do spread the word. We are really excited to see as many different interpretations from as many sketchers as possible.</span></span></div>
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