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01 Thursday Sep 2022

Posted by toearlyretirement in Art, Writing

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Artist Date, Craft, Inspiration, play, Projects, Writing

The last few weeks I’ve been reading The Artist’s Way. A friend of mine suggested a group of us go through the book and support one another in doing the activities. I’ve found the book quite interesting, some of the attitude challenges have been insightful, some of the activities have been fun. I decided some were too much bother and didn’t do them, others I meant to do but haven’t yet.

One of the things I’m exploring as part of the journey is blocking activities, namely scrolling endlessly through social media while watching TV, and have taken up crochet. The first couple of test patches I was making mistakes I couldn’t yet identify, but the third one was pretty good. I’m psyching myself up to try an actual pattern, something that will be a thing, a scarf or hat perhaps to start.

The images above a sample of crochet, and two collages I put together from activities in the Artist’s Way. The book has its drawbacks, and it’s very dated in certain aspects, but overall it has been a positive experience.

I’m also continuing work on various writing projects, a sequel to a previous novel, as yet not titled, and a rewrite of a novel I wrote a few years ago. I have a friend who I’m trying to convince to co-write a screen-play, so far it’s only at the pitch stage, and I am regularly working on my poetry.

The course, as described in the book, seems to be opening up a bunch of new and interesting avenues. It will be interesting to see how long they stick around, but on the other hand I suppose it doesn’t matter. The idea of play in my art practices has been a hard one to get my head around. I’ll persevere in trying to be playful and aim for a child-like glee. I hear it’s enjoyable.

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Adventuring

24 Thursday Nov 2011

Posted by toearlyretirement in Photo Essay

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Adventure, Art, Craft, Dystopian future, Loneliness, Photo Essay, Photography

I spent today feeling like I did not achieve very much. In the morning I made a bag from an old pair of jeans I found while cleaning stuff out to go the op shop. Here is a bad photo from my phone:

At about 5pm I decided I needed to go on an adventure. I have a friend who goes on adventures all the time and seems to have a brilliant time, but I’ve never really been sure how one goes about having an adventure – I decided the best way to try to have an adventure was to go out and see what happened.

I went down the road to Victoria Gardens shopping centre with the vague idea of getting some art supplies and looking at baskets for my bicycle. I got a whole bag of (probably poor quality) art stuff from a $2 shop; acrylic paints, brushes, pencils and a sketch book.

After that I thought I would go for a ride down by the Yarra and see if there were any good photo opportunities, here are some of them:

I was thinking about how the juxtaposition of the industrial landscape and the bare trees was really ‘dystopian future’. I tried to capture it but I’m not sure if I really got it. I think I will redo at least one of these as a painting/drawing to see if I can get the feel more of what I saw and less of what the camera saw.

Watch this space, I’ll post a photo of what I come up with.

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