izzie mack illustration: oh the weather outside is frightful, and this flat is so cold.

So, we've been granted around two-and-a-half snowdays recently, so I took it upon myself to get some good essay work done. This did not work out the way I'd planned, and so I have decided that today I will probably stay in the flat and try and get the majority of it all down, good an' proper.

Dundee's had a lot of snow recently, you see, maybe not quite enough to merit almost three snowdays, but we do have a lot of tutors venturing from towns/cities that are out-with Dundee, so we will give them the benefit of the doubt. The snow didn't stop our creativity though! My flatmates and myself made a beautiful snowlady...

Unfortunately, she died the next day...

However, before all this snowy frivolity came along, we had been doing some real work at uni. We had a project that was to do a set of illustrations, to illustrate two ancient Chinese fairytales.

I was first given a fairytale called, 'The Moonfish' about a fisherman who is so poor that he tries to catch some silver fish, fails, cries on a fish, the fish turns into a lady and then BOOM, happy ever after. Here's what I made of that...

and the final silkscreen print:

My next story was 'The Ancestors', a man who is eaten by his dead dad, grandad and great grandad because he can't follow all their goals at once. Here's what I made of that...