Yet another failure

Does it get easier the more often it happens? I should not call it failure the judges are just not on the same wavelength as me. This was the turned down entry for Creative Review's 2011 Illustration Annual.

Never mind I've still to hear from another two competitions.

Failure

Anna Violet has persuaded me to start blogging again.... so here we go.

Failure, well I am sure we all experience it at one time or another but when do we call it a day and how do we handle it?

Creative Review have a good piece on their blog

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/may/berghs-fear-of-failure

I like what Milton Glaser has to say.

This is my most recent failure, again I have failed to be selected for The Serco Prize for Illustration. They choose a first, second, third and fifty illustrations to be exhibited in the London Transport Museum. This competition is organized by the The AOI

http://www.theaoi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=269&Itemid=47

The winner is Anne Wilson and her image is below. I think her image is very eye catching and makes a very good poster.

This entry from Andy Potts has been chosen for the exhibition. I have always liked Andy's work.

Being CRATE ive

I found this image from a link on a friends blog. Have a look at the blog below there are more fun images. Don't you just wish you had come up with such an original idea... I do
http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/03/huge-crate-man-invades-australia.html

Illustration Friday Linked

Not the most obvious link...a cat and baby birds leaving their nest.

I am always worried when birds nest in our garden because I have two cats.

Illustration Friday Dip

Ip Dip Dip my blue ship

sails on the water

like a cup and saucer

Ip Dip Dip

you're not IT

This illustration is a little bit different from my usual style, but I have enjoyed doing it

Sanding down sculpture

I took my idea for my sculpture from this illustration I created for the BBC Philharmonic Manchester.

I think it looks more like a snowman than a bird! but when it is off the base and maybe in a nest it might look ok

I have spent quite a few hours over Easter trying to get my sculpture smooth but have not succeeded. This is a learning curve as I think the cement was not mixed properly. The next one I make I will certainly be getting the finish a lot smoother before it begins to dry. I was thinking I could use the same tools I use when trying to get icing flat on a cake!

The eye of the bird has also not been as successful as I hoped because I did not use enough colour before it was fired. Although the idea of putting white plastic tubing through the middle of the sculpture so the light would shine through has worked well.

Cement Sculptures

What fun - a trough full of sand and cement and 3 mad women. Maria, Ann and I have spent several days making cement sculptures. We started off with wired polystyrene and secured them on bases and then the fun began. Polystyrene can have a strange effect as the video shows.

They are now at the drying out stage and we will have to spend days sanding them down.

I will post more photos when they are finished.

(Notice the packet of choc chip boosters, necessary requirement for sculptors)