Cycling: 71 miles, but at no real pace, it’s too hot to go fast.
Linseed: Hmm, strange, the colours look a bit de-saturated in this photo. Anyway, the last effort was to reduce the slightly flat tones in the legs.
First day of the summer break, in a way the best- the whole holiday is ahead of us .
Leonard Cohen, A Thousand Kisses Deep:
This gave me the shivers the first times I heard it.
Hammock: after work, ride home and make an early supper. Lie in the hammock to eat, then fall asleep. After dozily waking slowly, watch the blackbirds and a robin not more the 1 metre from my feet. That’s the way to start an evening. I’ve watered the plants and later will put some bird seed out so our avian friends can sleep without rumbling bellys.
Favourite news story: BBC Size FF? You could get a rabbit in there!
Priceless!
The Whalesong is familiar; it must have been sampled innumerable times over the years since it was recorded (1970), Kate Bush, Pink Floyd and all the others.
22°C, warm, light SW wind and 3/10 cloud.
Funny how: looking at that picture of the underpainting on the silver screen shows up how out of proportion it is. Oh well, another layer has gone on it today- the body shape should be better; but you’ll have to wait for a photo.
Assassin’s Creed: has no "difficulty setting". It appears to be adaptive, that is- the difficulty adjusts to the players gameplay. Perhaps the number of "deaths" is calculated somehow. The result is a reduction in the number of opponants seen in a city. Or at least I think so- firstly I speculated on the characters dissappearing on replay because of some randomised coding in the game.
Vilhelm Hammershøi : (1864-1916),Interesting exhibition in the VA, London. See Michael Palin. There is a common bridge with Fantin LaTour- not the plant pictures though. There is a very calm melacholy about all the pictures I have seen, the muted colours and natual light that is seen lees often these days. We’re used ot artificial light and the flat tonal surface that gives, this however creates a deep 3 dimensional space which couldn’t be done with geometry/perspective alone. The pictures are quiet, very quiet, full of thought and perception; it’s a time for contemplation.
Micycle 