land act revisited

It been beautiful in London, sun shining and clear skies. I have been working away at art history assignments, which is going quite well, and I have managed to join two excellent reference libraries, which has helped lots. I'm hankering after time to work on my art, but its not long to go because my assignments are soon due and then I can work on art guilt free. I am really actually enjoying the research and writing, which is a first (at least in a long time). One of them is about informal art training in South Africa in the 1950's and 60's. Reading about Sophiatown, and the forced removals got me thinking about the animation that I did for the Journey to freedom project for UNISA. I think that I did not think about the seriousness of the forced removals and how tragic they really were, well, maybe I did but being my first animation, I think I was more concerned about getting the embroidered images moving and less about the impact it had. My animation is kind of humorous. Anyway, I am glad that I've realised this now, and have been thinking about how I could have done it differently which is a step in the right direction, I suppose.

the lady with a whip

Hi folks, i am afraid its a bit of nose to the grindstone for me, had too much fun with my animation experiments during the half term, and UNISA art history is beckoning...with a whip. So no new animations till the weekend when I'll let my artist play a bit. Have been working on something in flash with water colour images...star to birds again but slightly different. anyway i can upload the other sketch stop motions as soon as I've put them into flash. London is miserable and rainy... but only a month to go!
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