I am currently sitting on my setee in my living room, with Pitw the cat on my lap.
I've painted less than normal, I made a few paintings in my living room but got progressively more frustrated with the limitations, and then switched to other aspects of my practise and started making lots of relief prints and intaglio, spending a lot of time on them outside in the unseasonal sunshine of the covid spring!
What's last or current song you listened to (no cheating, we all have naughty
Mars by Television
Pasta with aubergine, very simple very tasty and comforting. Love an aubergine.
What's the next thing you are going to cook?
The reduced sainsbury finest pizza I found on my shopping trip this afternoon.
If everything in your house was going to be the same colour what colour
Probably iesu Mawr or chwarae teg.
I think me and my cats speak to each other telepathically.
What makes you laugh (feel free to share any videos, memes, record a
Which artist-living or dead would you like to share your quarantine practice with? Why?
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner as long as he's sober.
Exercise 2
Make an image based on your favourite album.
We are probably going to get through a lot of these homework sheets - so
Has this been a time where you've consumed more culture than normal? There's no doubt I've read more than normal, watched more films and looked into things into more detail, gone down a fair few rabbit holes in quarantine, and am wondering if others have done the same!
We are putting together a mixtape - what’s your go to song for dancing ?
Fantastic Man by William Onyeabor
being in the studio ?
Search and Destroy by The Stooges
chilling out ?
(It's All Over Now) Baby Blue by the 13th Floor Elevators
falling in love ?
Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly
For Exercise Three, we ask our artists to pick one of the following subjects as a starting point to make some work using an A5 piece of paper/cloth/whatever you like to the size with no restriction on media. These will be published on our website and available for £110 each.
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Still life: pick 3 items from your surrounding and recreate them
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Draw the last text you received/Page 15 from a book you are currently reading 7th sentence down
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Draw the last exhibition you saw/in style of the last exhibition you saw
Check out John's Exercise Three pieces here