Yesterday existentialism today Vogue – I shop therefore I am. I guess that sums up my approach to art – lack of any sense of direction – so be it.
Yesterday was my weekly art class and things went better than I thought – which is more than can be said for the proportions of the face but I still like the result.
One of the artists I find fascinating at the moment is Malcolm T Liepke – an American artists from Minnesota (according to Wiki). Now I doubt Liepke is going to trouble the art historians of the future as he is hardly ground breaking. However, the one thing I find fascinating about the man is that he seems to paint the same woman again and again and again. This reminds me of the work of Edward Hopper , not in style or content, but that he appears to paint the same woman over and over. In Hopper’s case you could describe his work as documenting the life of his wife Josephine.
Who the woman is that Liepke paints I have no idea – perhaps I should find out.
Thanks to IOS 8 my stylus doesn’t seem to want to work anymore with Brushes, the rather aging graphics app I use on my iPad. Now I haven’t used brushes in months so I have had to learn how to paint using my fingers – which produced this rather haunting image.
This morning I knocked up this little drawing using some of my favourite media – is there a connection? Not sure – you decided.
There was a time, perhaps it is still prevalent, when glue sniffing was a bag concern. I never understood this as I found the fumes that glue gave off only gave me a head ache. It is much the same with Sharpie pens. Some people just love the smell I hate it – however they do deliver a really good back without all the messing about with indian ink.
It is only three days ago and yet already it seems a life away. Ever since Wednesday it has rained on and off and as I write this another wave of drizzle is blowing in. Tomorrow is looking better but such is the wonderful autumn we’ve had it all now seems so depressing.
I really can’t think what to write today…so if you haven’t got anything to say then say nothing.
As I go along I create the latest volume of the Project LV One series – in this case volume 7 and sometimes I need an image for editorial reasons. You see I can’t slip an image into the book that hasn’t first been published in my blog. There is no god given reason for this other than these are the rules I have chosen to impose on myself – no one will really know apart from me and on these things I can get really anal. So I give you a triptych of sorts of Green Men carvings from Southwell Minster.
The Pano function on the iPhone is a wonderful innovation which I am well aware that appeared on other smartphones first. However, as I don’t use any other smartphone is somewhat irrelevant. The function offers some great creative opportunities but also has a number of problems associated with it, uppermost being that is works the best in optimal lighting conditions and when you go beyond this the image quality plummets. Given a caveats I still feel that the Pano function is one of the best additions to image making on the iPhone.
A quintessential English town, that is how I would describe Southwell in Nottinghamshire, especially today in the vibrant autumn sunlight. It was a real pleasure.
The minster at Southwell dates back to the the Norman period although it is reasonable to assume that this might have been a sacred place for much longer than that as there was a Roman villa on the site back into the second century. I have an interest in the continuity of sacred sites and the more you examine English church yards the more little snippets of evidence keep appearing to support this notion.
Inside the Minster there are also pagin symbolism used to decorate the Chapter house, with a fine collection of different Green Men carvings. A book was written in the late 1940’s on the different leaves that form part of the decorative sculptures of the chapter house. The use of such motifs may well reflect the close proximity of the royal forest of Sherwood.
The graveyard around the minster also continues the leaf theme with a coverage of leaves that have fallen from the trees.
I think that is enough of the tourist board copy for now! The images created are a mixture of images made in camera, using the KitCam app, and images later created using Photoshop on my Mac.
God this is one of the most boring posts I have written in a long time (you may not agree with this) and I hope that I will resume my unadulterated ramblings tomorrow (you may not agree with this).
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