2020/21 Reboot – Sketchbooks + Stories

2020/21 Reboot

Greatings all, and a belated Happy New Year. Welcome to my 2020/21 Reboot. So, 2020 was a weird one for us all, and 2021? Well, all bets are off. For me, 2020 was going to be about life changes following certain personal events in 2019, and which started a train of events that led to some big life decisions. However, some of those life changes were, like so many, imposed upon me and were even more bizarre than I could have imagined. Many of my own plans for the year had to be shelved naturally, and life became about adapting. I was still able to pursue some of my plans, but many were not tenable, and still may not be this year. Again, it was and still is all about adapting.

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Happy New Year

Sketchbook

It’s been a while since I last posted, about a year and half. As I said I would in my last post, I took some time off…from everything. A lot has happened. But, I am still here. So, moving onwards, a couple of pics. One the first illustration of the year, and the other…a project of sorts. Happy new year everyone, peace and love to you all. Lorrie xx

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Tabula Rasa

A clean slate. I started off the year with some big ideas and intentions, and life took over. I took a big break from social media, specifically my website, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, though stayed relatively active on Twitter as that has mostly a political focus for me rather than artistic. However, I am done with Twitter for the moment as it’s so toxic. I plan by the end of the year to delete my Facebook profile altogether, as I have a ghost account to maintain my art page. Eleven years of Facebook is long enough, and it’s become a dull and vacuous wasteland.

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Fabulous Women Prt. 1

Beatrix Ost

In a week that has thoroughly pissed me off with living in a country that seems to value only what is young, new and happening, with its insidious, invidious ageist youth culture, and one that has reduced one of my oldest friends, who was always the most vibrant and vivacious woman ever I knew, to now feel irrelevant and ‘invisible’, I thought it was time to redress the balance and to do a post illustrating that you don’t need to be under 30 to be fabulous.  In fact, some of the most fabulous women out there are well over 60, and here are some!

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Creative + Passionate + Inspired

Lorrie Whittington is an illustrator, designer-maker, free spirit, chocolate eating geek, living in the heart of the Sussex countryside on the south coast of Britain. She draws, paints, reads a lot, makes things with clay, likes scf-fi and hangs out with her daughter.