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Ha!  So much for blogging every single lesson.  Oh well.  I'll add more to this much-neglected blog over the summer.

My first project was about the Women's Land Army.  I ended up making a series of badges/medals showing Land Girls doing the most rotten jobs (cleaning out the pigs, rat-catching) to celebrate their efforts and achievements.

My second project was themed around my cats, I did lots of observational drawing.  I also wanted to explore printmaking, as I felt like we'd only scratched the surface in the Taster classes.  I made drypoint etchings, various approaches to linocut, monotype and collagraph, and picked my favourite method to illustrate a poem about cats.

(It was lucky that I had this chance to draw my cat Poppy all the time, because she went missing in April and still hasn't turned up.  It's sad for me to look through this project now, but I'm glad I have so many drawings and photographs of her.)

I'll put pictures from these projects on the blog over the summer, when all the frantic prep for the final project is out of the way.

My final major project is due soon -- the exhibition will open at Middleton Hall in Milton Keynes shopping centre on 26th June.  I'm not terribly sure I'll be ready in time!  It explores puppetry, performance, shadow play and storytelling, and involves a series of little films and paper-cuttings.