Throwback Thursday-2004

I have found this old sketchbook from 2004 lurking under my bed and have been looking back at it.

It was dated June to September 2004 (I was 19) and was a university project to fill the time between finishing my foundation year and starting my degree. The title of the design brief was 'summer holiday visual journal' and that's exactly what it was. It was quite interesting to look through. My style has changed quite a bit. It was much more loose and scribbley back then. This was influenced greatly by a book I found during my foundation course in the fine art studio by The Neasden Control Centre. (Www.neasdencontrolcentre.com) It was from the university library and I became instantly fascinated with it. I then had to wait MONTHS for whoever had borrowed it to return it to the library, and it was always being renewed then being late back. I got it in the end though, and I later bought a copy for myself, and was so glad I did as it's out of print now.

Here are some of the pages I like:

There was some filming taking place in Lulworth Cove the day I drew this. The film was 'Beyond The Sea' starring Kevin Spacey. Quote from the lady in the Lulworth heritage centre about Kevin Spacey: "He's a little man with sticky out ears."

 

                                      All images copyright Rebecca Gregory 2004

Some things that happened in 2004:

- I watched Euro 2004 on the telly. I cannot remember now who won, but it was not England.

- I bought some red Converse All Stars (I still wear the same pair today!)

- our noisy neighbours went on holiday for a WHOLE WEEK and we had PEACE and QUIET. I was able to sit in the garden and read a book for the first time ever.

- I went on holiday to the caravan in Dorset. Some rain happened.

- I ran the Sport Relief Mile

- I went to the WOMAD music festival. I think it was possibly my first music festival. The green ribbon attached to my sketchbook was originally tied to the car ariel that day.

- we tried and failed to get Glastonbury tickets. We went on a day trip to Brean Down and I sulked about all the people enjoying themselves at Glasto. It was windy.

- our noisy neighbours ACTUALLY MOVED HOUSE. We had a celebratory cake. With little flags on.

- some other stuff happened too.

In the back of the book I wrote a list of the things I thought were 'cool' (to me, at the time)

- vampires

- pirates

- monkeys

- bats

- 'skellingtons'

- VW campers in nice colours (well well...)

- weird stuff