old postal map of london

this is really a test if i can email pictures to my blog.

lodz

I was in Poland in July this year and I promised to send off some pics to Nicole so here are a few.

battersea park

If I don't have time to write much i will just add a picture for the day, this one is from Battersea park taken about a month ago. i liked the colours and the patterns.

painting in progress

I am working on with the idea of embedding images into pattern like forms...like the drawing, where the pattern is created by the reflections and this section is of a painting i have been working on which was inspired by a little box that i received a gift in.

patterns in reflections

Okay so I've skipped a day, still better than nothing. I am really enjoying my drawing and i keep on seeing new forms emerging from the reflections. I was looking through some of my old photos the other day and i noticed that i have quite a number of reflections and water. the drawing is big (height 1.5m). It is so wonderful to be working on this scale again, it as been such a long time, i did not realise how cramped i was really feeling. I am working in acrylic washes and charcoal as a start... we'll see how it goes.

third post - a bitty start

the key to this thing is to keep adding to it and not leave it hanging. Its a bit like morning pages. I want to try to add something every day. And write something every day. even if it is rubbish. This photo was taken in Wales, its from the top of the Sugar loaf in the Brecon Beacons. I was lucky to choose a sunny day for my walk and spent the whole day on my own, walking. Beautiful quite time.

So today was Saturday and I got together the last few things to send home for Christmas. Some days are not meant for shopping, but its off now and i am pleased with everything. I really wish i could minimise myself into that package!

I bought a big board last week, for a drawing easel and eventually Francesco and i managed to fetch it from the hardware store. Last night and i started on a large drawing that i have been wanting to do for ages. I am really excited about it and have been working on it for the better part of this evening too. I will include an photo of my progress in tomorrow's post.

day two

Anyway back to some images... on tuesdays i get to work in a creative skills lesson and for the last few weeks the lecturer has been drawing some basic shapes for the students to complete as characters of their own. I have never really tried to draw like this before, but stole the chance to draw some of my own

a start

Over the past 18 months or more i have made less objects and have less material evidence of the time that i have spent than at any other time. this is probably why i have been feeling depressed or perhaps it is the other way round. either way i would like to try something like this to get me going. I'm fighting winter in the northern hemisphere after (un)appreciatively basking in African sun all my life. Anyway, sometimes when i am feeling down and sometimes when i need inspiration i surf the net and sometimes it seems to find me(this is not always the case...sometimes it has the opposite affect). - but when it does which i have discovered is generally related to what i want to see i.e if i want to be find something cool it is there. plus there are the old favourites to return. well, a start. I'll start with some images...because they make me happy and leave it at that for today.