Stories

Here is the first story from when I was a child!
I really like this story just for the nerd factor, I mean I could have written about anything but I chose to write about my brother playing on his Nintendo. And by Nintendo, I mean NES! About a year later (maybe even that year) my brother gave me his Spectrum for Christmas and I was stoked! I used to love playing that motorcycle game (still not sure of the name) and Ghostbusters on it, awesome.

Laupside demolished

I know the picture is very unrelated, but I really wanted to blog about this. It seems Laupside a skater built skatepark's been demolished recently by the council, check the article over at French's blog. Normally I wouldn't be so fussed as it's not somewhere I've ever been to/cared about, but we've got a something similar in Newcastle in what is known as the wasteland. The wasteland is, as it sounds, a bit of land where there used to be a factory years ago, and over the years people have came and built different things there.
Anyways, the wasteland is allegedly due to be demolished sometime in the next year, so I thought this was relevant.

Spaceman!

Oh yeah! Guess which bit I drew!?!
My mam has been going through a pile of my old school i found in the loft the other day, and when I say old I mean REALLY OLD. There was lots of colouring in books and worksheets and things, but the best things I found (and kept!) are my old story books, they're amazing! None of the stories make much sense and the pictures are rubbish but they're really funny! I really don't know why people don't keep story books their whole lives and write a new story every week or so (and draw a picture!).
Anyways, I'm now debating whether to upload like a whole book in sections now on my blog or just upload a few of the best stories because I really have to share them. Really.

No more CatPaint.co.uk...

...blog.
I'm pretty sure I wrecked this photo opening the back of my camera, but I'm pretty stoked on it all the same.

By no more blog I mean that catpaint.co.uk will no longer be pointing here in a few days, so everyone wishing to continue visiting this site (who normally visit via www.catpaint.co.uk) will have to start visiting via scrawlthere.blogspot.com instead (yes the title is misleading and I will still be blogging:)). Instead CatPaint.co.uk will be directed towards my portfolio website (which you can check out temporarily here). As I've mentioned before anyone following my RSS feed will have to make some changes...as I previously described.

Kite!

I took this photo recently whilst enjoying my time spent not at college. Apart from kite flying I'm spending my time applying for jobseekers' and skating at the moment, while I look for a more permanent job (so please, feel free to offer work!). It's my graduation next week but I doubt I'll be attending as I haven't sorted out gowns et c. yet and it's not really my thing.

Ice Cream cat

Me and Ed've been experimenting with embroidery again, simplifying some of our characters to make little emblems for clothing etc. No idea what we're going to make yet, maybe caps? maybe patches? who knows!

Final Show

Well, my final show for BA (Hons) Creative Practice went as well as could be expected (a bit of a dive), but boozy times were to be had by all! Above is a photo of our main display in our main display....area, albeit a bit desolate without our portfolios etc. on display.

As I mentioned earlier, I've been busy at work sorting out OctoPuss, mine and Ed Tam's little business in cat related doodlings! We've set up a blog over here where you can see some of our work, although it was best to see it in person as images don't really do it justice! Our web store is also up at OctoPuss.biz and features an awesome Octopus themed background by Lynsey Gray, which is worth visiting the site for alone! Be sure to check out some of our work and maybe part with some dollar for a good cause (haha).

Oh and for those who're curious, I've passed my course and should have my degree in a few weeks:)