Jim-Steevens

In the Deviant Art questionnaire from the 15th anniversary of Deviant Art there was a question, Which style or type of art would you like to master? My answer to question was that I would like to master Voka’s style. The most obvious answer would have been My own. I have always liked the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, I fell in love with John W Waterhouse’s painting, The Lady of Shalott when I saw it in an exhibition at the Royal Academy many years ago, I am not sure what the Exhibition was I think it possibly was along the theme of either a Pre-Raphaelite or Victorian period art. I am intending to paint my own version of it. I am Studying the work of J W Waterhouse and his contemporaries, along with modern painters such as Peter Blake, David Hockney and Humphey Ocean. At the moment I am getting back into painting and drawing, trying to develop the habit of working on a regular basis and I have set myself the task of building an online portfolio, along with producing work

Where do I begin, Previous to my last entry It has been over five years since I last updated this journal, According to my dictionary a Journal is a record of daily transactions, so quint-annually as opposed to daily is a big fail. So what have I been doing? After a run of bad luck and an inability to concentrate, I did make a start on writing poetry most of this needs a bit of reworking and a polish before I decide to unleash it, I was intending to enter poetry competitions. I have also been doing some writing, the first Novel that I originally started many moons ago evolved into two separate stories. Another two stories emerged from the depths of my mind, I made some notes and put them away to get on and complete the first one, which now just needs a bit of polishing on the narration to finish , however the other stories played over in my head and would not go away. A result of this is, I have several notebooks full of notes, ideas, scenarios and snippets of conversation. I