A week in Cornwall
At the end of May ‘24, Sal and I headed off with Dolly dog on the train from Westgate-on-Sea destination Penryn, nr Falmouth for a week away staying with old friends from when we lived in Falmouth 2015-2018.
Before heading down I had made the decision to have as much a screen free time as possible. What I did allow myself to do though was take photographs on my phone but rather than leaving them on my phone, I uploaded them to an online file at the end of each day. In total there were almost 230 photos of which I selected just over 30. I used this selection to draw from as reference and create a condensed summary of our time away.
Almost a month after getting back, I finally finished the last drawing this morning and then set about putting them into spreads. This was always the intention, I didn’t want them to just exist as single drawings, nor did I necessarily want it to be a chronological history of our time away.
This took time, I had found it hard at times to keep going but I am so so pleased I did. I’ll come back to this in a future post but I think this is the start of a new way of working for me.