Bad Faery: drawing, illustration and studies with the Open University

Friday, October 31, 2008

The Big Draw: Day 31 and the end!

Posted in: •Drawing and Illustration•The Big Draw•

Winter and Persephone descends to the Underworld once more…

Music: ‘Pandora’s Aquarium’, Tori Amos

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Big Draw: Day 30

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Pomegranate crown.

Music: ‘Parting Ways’, Pearl Jam

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Big Draw: Day 29

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Pomegranate crown.

Music: ‘Winter Lady’, Kate and Anne McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A cold day in October

Posted in: •Open University•A210: Approaching Literature•

Our coldest October day in sixteen years and tonight I will do my drawing curled up in front of the fire. The month has flown by and I can hardly believe that I have only 4 days left to complete my Big Draw challenge.

My new OU course is flying by, all too quickly! The first 8 weeks focus on the realist novel and in particular Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Great Expectations and Fathers and Sons. This week is Great Expectations. I’m not a Dickens fan but I find the background reading interesting all the same. I have completed one assignment so far, a close analysis of a passage from Pride and Prejudice. Next assignment in due mid-November, in which I have to discuss how the novel guides a reader to make moral judgements about a character while allowing sympathetic involvement in their experiences.

This made me smile.

Music: ‘The Dream of Trees’, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Complete Recordings

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