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Black and white painting exercise

May 14, 2016/0 Comments/by Alice

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Photo from the new studio, where the light is rather yellow! I think buying those filter photographers lights has been one of the most useful things I’ve ever bought - do you have them? They are great for photographing work - either on their own with a full DSLR shebang, or just adding to natural light in situation shots.

Yes, you feel like a plonker setting them up, but it’s nice to say hello, so here we are!

Today I’m buying new walking shoes and getting a hair cut. Tomorrow my son turns 18 but he’s out at a party for the weekend so we won’t even see him, although I think we may celebrating for getting this far!

What are your weekend plans? I may head back to the Affordable Art Fair Which is on in Battersea Park. I already bought one painting there on Wednesday, so that could be dangerous!

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Morning walk... Urban patterns, colour clashes, compositions, shadows, graphics, evidence of life, light, nature and human interaction.

The sun is shining, which helps, but I love where I live. I love outdoor open country too, but the messy, busy city living I find such a buzz - even the grotty stuff!

What do you take for granted where you live that really zings you up?!

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This isn’t huge, I think it’s 80cm tall, but it still takes a fairly hefty amount of paint to create those marks. I have that sense now of not wanting to mess with this... it’s either a stand-alone, or another possible painting pair. Definitely feeling a difference in working, and currently doing far too much sitting and looking before making a move!

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I’ve always been a good sleeper. (Hold on to see how this relates to art!) Once I slept right through until 5pm, got up for supper and slept fine at 10pm the same night (that was after the first term at university - guess I had been “working” hard!) Recently, not so much. Lots on my mind, hormones maybe, but you know what I really miss? Dreaming!! That long semi-conscious slumber is one of life’s delights for me.

Today I was woken at 5am, I gave up trying to sleep, made a cup of tea and read for a while until I felt snoozy. When I woke up I realised why I love this state so much and why it feels really important.... The last few days, and weeks have been busy. I remember snippets of conversation and scramble to remember who it was who talked about living in Japan, recently I slept in 3 different places in a week... but when you dream your brain just takes over and kind of sorts it out into a totally new story.

If I keep my eyes closed when I wake, I can identify all the elements and enjoy ‘placing’ them, but the way it’s re-configured is always a slightly weird and new version - which I think is exactly how I like to paint. Take the parts, just suck them all in, mix it up and see what new version emerges. If I’m really on it, I can even go to bathroom, come back to sleep, pick up where I left off or even change the course of dreams. Is this lucid dreaming?
I wonder what part of our subconscious ‘gets out’ when we paint?

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Yeah!! Unloaded all the work in progress paintings to the new studio... will post the full mess in stories.
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So the issue is how do these relate? Never before have I had the space to spread everything out at the same time - usually it’s only when I’m hanging at a show I get to do this, so this was really helpful. The one in the foreground is a really old canvas which I paired with a new one which makes working over them both a little easier - it’s now 1.7m and I’m enjoying working on canvas again.
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Let’s see what happens next!

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Every week for almost 4 years now I’ve done a weekly written check-in as part of a coaching group I’m in. Some weeks are good, others not so much but we are all there to celebrate, help, cheer on, commiserate together. I love my family but they are fairly pants at understanding what I do. I don’t know where I would be without this kind of network. I hope you’ve found yours... how has Monday been?! .
#notags because I’m not sure they work much anymore... see next image...is this the same for you?

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