I did a massive update over on The Diary Project at the weekend. It's been getting harder and harder to find something to say about every individual drawing, so it sometimes it takes me a while to get the scans up there. I've got another six that I uploaded onto Flickr over the weekend that I need to write bits of blurb for.

It's definitely getting harder to come up with new drawings too, I keep worrying that I'm repeating myself too much but fortunately I hit on a couple of new drawing techniques last night, so that should keep me inspired this week.

I'm going to try to get round to that second Diary Project update later today but right now, I'm heading over to Spike Island to sit in the Associate Space and do some research. I've been meaning to get over there and do some reading for ages, they've got a small but interesting-looking selection of art books. The thing I miss most about college is the lack of access to decent art books and magazines. I don't have much of a budget for them (they're so expensive) so I miss the college library like crazy. The local council library doesn't have a particularly great art selection and although I can and do order stuff in, I miss the serendipity of random browsing. The little local college where I do my silversmithing course has an art library but it's so small and after several years of studying there, I've read most of the interesting stuff. I'm looking forward to starting back there on Wednesday though because there's bound to be a few new books and magazines that came in over the summer.

My book consumption slumped drastically over the summer. For some reason I just wasn't feeling like reading (it happens occasionally, even to this confirmed bookworm!), so I could use a bit of a boost in that area.