Portrait of a boy - finished!!

I'm writing this entry a few hours earlier this week, as I'm sat down watching the Grand Prix and waiting for my Sunday dinner to cook.

I've finished my Portrait of a Boy piece, and submitted to the competition:

I couldn't get the contrast I liked, as both the paper and coloured pencil were poor quality (yeah yeah, I know, a workman blames his tools...) but when the total cost of the paper and pencils were about £1.55 what do you expect? I'm at least upgrading to Crayola's next time!

Once I had finished the above I've done some research regarding going freelance, and thought of a much better company name to work from. Although it seems being self-employed is a huge minefield to get set up! I'll keep chipping away at it, but for now I don't have any projects I'm working on. I've not even watched any inspirational video's, all week I've been working on getting the Trailer Tent we bought last week ready for summer. We've run out of waterproofer, so I've got some more on order, and we made the best of the bank holiday weekend by spending all of last Monday in the sun waterproofing the canvas and scrubbing the upholstery.

I've found a few art conventions to go to in the UK throughout the year. There's one in Brighton which seems the most suited to me, but it's miles away! There's also one in London (and I need to take a trip to London to go to the V&A), and Sheffield hosts a design week, which is much closer to home.

I think if anything this week I'll work on a new logo for my new company name, and once I've got the files sorted for my old name I'll post the pictures on here so you can see the design process I went through. I'll also update my Behance profile with the images too.