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November 17, 2007
Catharine's Shoes on a blog
Look at this
say no more really!
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The Bears of Wellington Place
I had a week on my own as Catharine went down to Reading to clear out her house before it was sold on Friday. I had a busy week at work as we were hosting the University Association of Lifelong Learning Conference on Monday and Tuesday. So it was late nights all week including my Pictorial Figure Composition evening class on Wednesday. I am really enjoying this class as I get to teach what is my passion. No rest for the wicked as on Thursday, Catharine had sent all her stuff up with a ‘man with with a van’ (actually his name was Sam) and help him put it all into storage until we can figure out where it can all go.
I had to get at least three very small painting finished this weekend in order have them dry in time for framing for the Scottish Gallery Xmas show. So I have been enjoying just simply painting little snippets of our flat with our collection of bears. It is so long since I have so much ‘look and put’ painting (well ‘look and put and add a bit of my own’ really) and it is about time. This is how to refuel your image bank and be able to paint things out of your head with authority. These are not exceptional pictures but they feel right and the right direction. The bigger one in the picture is just a limbering up for the portrait I want to do for the BP portrait award.
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November 11, 2007
Catie and the Bears
Well at last Catie and I are together in Edinburgh. She came back from working at Cyprus College of Art (now in Larnaca) in early September with some wonderful drawings and paintings from her 2 months there, whish you can see on her website. Catie was also successfully in gaining a art teaching position at Loretto school in Musselburgh, a stone’s throw outside Edinburgh.
So, I went back to work at eca after my short painting break in August, but have managed to continue to paint. I am planning a portrait of Catie for the BP portrait award and want to set it in our wonderful flat in Leith, along with our collection of ‘bears’. So I have embarked upon, what may in the future be referred to as my ‘bear period’, been painting tiny pictures of the bears as a limbering up exercise. I have quite enjoyed doing them actually. I am also showing some small pictures at the Scottish Gallery this Christmas, so I am hoping that one of these bear pictures will cut the mustard.
Meanwhile, as Catie’s Job does not start until after xmas, she has been drawing and painting out and about in Edinburgh (urban gardens) - more wonderful work, which will be on her site soon.
So, it is very nice to have a partner who paints and we are finding each other a great motivator to work.
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