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Art Lessons

April 17, 2011

Turns out that there were weekly art classes in the area. I was interested but tentative. I sent off an exploratory email and mused over the reply. And the following week I decided to go.

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Sharon’s Portrait Of Me

March 28, 2011
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Some of you might remember that Dailybooth user Inamusement Sharon drew my portrait. Well she sent it to me and it arrived today, and I put it in this frame.

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Much Ado About… Something

March 13, 2011

Saying something but not really saying anything at all. Have I lost you already? Bear with me.

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Road Blocks

March 1, 2011

I am a firm believer in Morning Pages but that doesn’t mean I use them all the time. Though it felt like a really long time since I had last drawn/painted anything (it probably wasn’t as long as it felt) and I was beginning to feel to quite anxious about starting anything. In truth I was scared to start anything in case it turned out to be awful, in case it revealed me to be the complete hack I think I am.

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Quality/Quantity

January 23, 2011
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I distinctly recall reading something in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way about concentrating on the quantity and leaving the ‘quality’ to God. Well today I’ve been doing that. The quality is fairly uninspiring but there’s something nice – even comforting – about about just churning things out and seeing what happens. And it gives me an opportunity to real play with my materials.

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Happy Birthday To Me

January 22, 2011

It was my 29th birthday yesterday. I’ve never been a ‘bucket list’ kind of guy but somehow the prospect of being one year off thirty made me acutely aware of all the things I haven’t done. The most random things too, like “I’ve never drank sake.”

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Watercolour Experiment

January 10, 2011
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But, like anything, learning a new medium comes with its own stumbling blocks and learning curve. The one thing I was particularly worried about was stretching paper.

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New Year Musings

January 3, 2011

I am always reluctant to entertain ideas of new years resolutions since they always feel like setting one’s self up to fail. But I thought I would muse over things in a general way – hopes, fears and the like.

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