Hmm making things for an application, trying to just make rather than think, pour and romanticise everything.
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Ruth and Jon
What an amazing day. It is important to recognise when life is good. This day was a good day.
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Anna’s House
So this is the first of (hopefully) many drawings I am going to make from other peoples houses.
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Drawing Number 2
Really enjoyed this one
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The City from the Roof
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I was not massively happy with the drawing to begin with. I felt that I was approaching it in a slightly timid way, which was annoying. After a while of graphite and black pen I decided to attack it with water and blue ink. I liked it better than before but it was still not quite there so I attacked it again, with white spray paint, more graphite and a permanent marker. Ahh that’s better. I could still work on it for another hour or two but my marker ran out and my feet were pretty dirty. So I called it day and clambered back through the window.
I would like to buy a massive roll of paper next so I am not working on a long narrow piece. This drawing does remind me of the concertina sketchbook, that had been quite successful. Big rectangular pieces to come….
A week in
So it has been a week since I submitted my heart to the Princes Drawing School. I am now simply existing in a state of limbo, waiting to hear if they would like me to visit them and beg for admittance.
It has been strange not having my books as I had looked at them everyday for the past month as the date loomed painfully close. Leaving them behind was a bit unnerving. They have had my little protective eyes cast upon them at all times.
Now I have a bit of mental space, I can finish the book I am reading ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera (thanks Oliver). I can also focus on my guitar practice, get M through his exam and do a bit of writing.
I moved house on Saturday and I am now situated in North London. It is lush. I have access to a roof top and as I was falling asleep last night (far too slowly due to the three cups of coffee I had consumed) I was thinking about making some John Virtue-esk work of the cityscape.
Yes, I think I will do that next.
Royal Academy Drawings
It was a long old day, but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. It was interesting using coloured chalk as I would never have selected that material if I had been given a choice. I always go for charcoal. It was fun drawing Adam. We were silly but serious.
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Ladies on the Heath
This was a beautiful afternoon. It didn’t feel like a day in March. I am going to make a few tree drawings next, in graphite and black pen…
Monday Drawing
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Anish Kapoor and Kensington Gardens
Friday took a bunch of girls and me to the Serpentine on Hyde Park. It was bitterly cold (honestly, where is the end of March and the spring?) though we spent a while exploring the five sculptures by Anish Kapoor.
Each sculpture managed to captivate us in slightly different ways. We started with the largest disk that stood on the bank 10 meters high. As it reflected the sky, it seemed we were transported to a parallel world. It visually flipped us upside down and we found ourselves walking on a different kind of turf. The clouds rippled across the surface of this alien like object. It hovered, silently humming.
The second sky mirror was smaller and it stood in a large round pond. This one was coloured a hot red and as we walked towards it, it seemed the object defied laws of form and dimension. It felt as if someone could peel the red disk off from the surface of the landscape, two dimensional, a playful bit of collage.
C-Curve was the most interactive and a lot of fun. We ran towards it, and it reflected us reaching heights that about half our normal size. We walked and our reflections bobbed up and down.
It was cold, and we were glad to move towards the Serpentine but it was certainly worth a few red noses and steamy eyes.
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