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Welcome to the official blog of Joanna Neary, where you can catch up on Jo’s bewildered world past, present and looming. Mainly, this blog consists of scanned pages from her sketchbook with a running commentary, dashed off between duties, work and other hobbies. As well as banging on about art, there’s also past gigs, and music, such as the one about being interviewed for Prog Magazine in 2019, which led to some delightful exchanges with fellow nerds. It was all very civil, even when Jo had to admit she’d got a Frank Zappa fact wrong.
Uckfield Charity Shops 2019
Today I was very taken with tea cosies. They really work. I forgot to go back for them. I also got myself some Posca Pens and ended up buying colourful clothes. I wonder if that’s connected? I suspect so, I’m very transparent.
Read moreMarie Kondo-ing My Stuff, Part 3.
Kondo thoughts continued. I really do think I’d be better at throwing out other people’s stuff, but that’s not allowed, apparently. I found a review that me and my best friend did for MacDonald’s on the first and last time we went there to eat. There were actual poos on the seats in the loo. […]
Read moreClearing out Kondo Style continued.. 2019
Here are some other pictures from my year so far. I really like the Marie Kondo method and Shinto and all that, but I am also doing comedy about it, though I’ve had to draw the line at doing an impression. (I did have one but it was vetoed by my audience member. I am […]
Read moreCreative Beast Podcast
Creative Challenges So Far… My creative challenge today, is uploading images to this flaming page. It’d be quicker to invite you, one by one for tea, to have a look at my sketchbook at your leisure. Anyway. Heather Minor and me have been having great fun doing our first ever podcast. It’s about creativity, how […]
Read more2019 Drawings so far
I’ve done some drawings in response to Marie Kondo’s technique on Netflix… The rest is the rammel I’ve been sorting, after Kondo-ing my drawers. Does this spark joy for you? Or do you think I must be a hoarder? Some of this stuff is from the Riot Grrrl days… (sticker by Bikini Kill circa 1992. […]
Read moreObservational And Non Observational
Here are some pen tests and sketches I’ve been doing, plus a bonus shot of my Datsun Sunny pencil case which was 50p in a charity shop in Oldham. That’s someone else’s oil on it and I kept that tea stain for sentimental reasons (in other words, I’ve got better things to do, like trying […]
Read moreThe Queen One
On this day, the Queen enters the Guinness Book Of Records for waving in a stilted manner while some people cheer. I’m not a fan but I was once, for my own nefarious means… The Nations Nan and My Master Plan My plotting started when Prince Charles came all the way from Royal Buckingham Palace […]
Read morePart 5 of My First Edinburgh Fringe Festival – 1995- 20 years ago today
The penultimate instalment. Too busy with current 2015 festival to write more. I thought Installment had two L’s. Predictive text has destroyed my brian* I did the ‘brian’ line there on purpose. I may be ignorant but I’m well aware of it I remember asking Joseph to stop making Dave laugh while he was driving, […]
Read morePart 4 of My First Edinburgh Fringe – 1995 – twenty years ago today
So then everyone started having delirious crushes on strangers and some kissed in cupboards at The Pleasance. Here is a rough guide. And a show report. The ‘boys’ me and Juls were trying to befriend were Dan Clark and friends – I can’t remember the name of their group now, can you? They went on […]
Read morePart 2 of Twenty Years Ago – My First Edinburgh Fringe 1995
I’ve got my old WordPress app going again and I refuse to update it. Here’s the part two but after part three because of silly silly computers
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