Happy Book-iversary Give Away!

Four years ago I decided to embark on a personal project in which I committed to follow a specific creative goal every week for the next 5-6 years (I couldn’t bring myself to math it out exactly, suffice to say, a really long time)

Riding the waves of 2020 chaos, all my coping mechanisms conspired to choose *A REALLY BIG ART PROJECT* as the best way to navigate.

What has helped sustain the project is the looseness of the brief.

It’s just a double page spread, made without a plan, which comes together over the course of one week.

Then Monday comes around, I turn the page, and I start afresh.

After the first year or so I loosened up the ‘rules’ a bit and now I’ll return to older pages and add little bits here and there as the mood takes me.

I also skip forward now and then and leave little easter eggs for future me to find: Usual sketchbook stuff like blobs and washes of colour when I have left over paint I don’t want to waste.

When I’m listening to an audio book or a podcast and some words catch my attention I write them down.

If a week’s spread gets too wordy I’ll skip forwards a few pages and carry on writing there. Too much text at once gets a bit indigestible to me so I let it fall out into other places.

I’m leaving notes to a future me.

The doodles and characters in this book have gone on to inspire a lot of my other art, from postcards to stickers to zines.

All this to say, I can’t let this 4 year anniversary slip by uncelebrated, so I’m bundling up some goodies from my studio for a giveaway for FIVE of you lovely people!

Details on how to enter will be on my Instagram & Facebook over the next couple of days, the winners will be notified after the draw at the weekend.

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