Tag: Painting
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Roots to Branches 27
1.3.13 Today Fulbridge School became an Academy without a new sign above their entrance, but with black paint now on my brush I’m entering the end game. Large lettering has been the object of my attention and Monday will be more of the same. Then, it’s the army of Lilliputians to tackle, two large figures to…
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Roots to Branches 23
22.2.13 ‘Drippin’ on my boots…………….tryin’ to paint me some roots’ Five weeks since the delivery of the boards and ask me to suggest a completion date, I’d still struggle to commit to one. Another week? Maybe. Perhaps two. Difficult to say. I’m not near the painting I have in my head yet but nonetheless today…
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Roots to Branches 22
21.2.13 ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs……………….then probably you’ve underestimated the seriousness of the situation!’ – Jean Kerr (Please Don’t Eat the Daisies) There are many areas of the painting still to resolve so another 9 hour studio session, but a welcome means of blotting out the perilous…
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Roots to Branches 21
19.2.13 ‘Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be, we’re going to Barns-sa-lee, Que Sera Sera’ A song from the Molineux terraces last season, and which becomes a reality tonight. It feels like a Cup Final too, which is a reflection of our dreadful position. A crunch match if ever there was one which could…
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Roots to Branches 20
18.2.13 There were some obvious candidates for the tunes rolling around in my head today, I had such a rich source of material to choose from. It could have been Respighi’s ‘Birds’, ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’ by Delius, Vaughan Williams’ ‘A Lark Ascending’, Rossini’s ‘Thieving Magpie’, Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird Suite’ or anything from…
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Roots to Branches 19
14.2.13 ‘……Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school…….’ (As You Like It, Act II Scene VII) Whining? Creeping like snail? Unwillingly? To Fulbridge? Not likely! Shining morning faces emerging……………………and to steal the words of Lennon and McCartney, the painting is starting to come together……………………right now……………………over me
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Roots to Branches 18
12.2.13 I’m not a calligrapher or a signwriter, so I’m not finding the painting of letters the quickest of tasks but there’s a good reason for this. As far as this part of the composition is concerned, the line of typography will either work well or very badly, there is no in-between. Spacing, structure and…