On hold

Posted on 28th Aug 2006 by essiep

18°C, showers

Paused. Does this mean the last week of the holiday is going ot be wasted, the weather isn’t so good and I have a cold. So few entries over the last weekend and painting progress is slow. You just can’t paint unless you feel sharp, I keep getting the pictures off the shelf, but then don’t paint.
Picking up the 3D modelling is easier for short periods, so that’s how it goes.

Sleep is needed here.

Quick! lightning

Posted on 18th Aug 2006 by essiep

upto 20°C, sun & storms

Cycle in electrical storm and you’re at risk I feel. It’s the one thing that scares me while cycling (apart from joy-riders & white vans). It felt like a race because the black clouds were approaching home while I was still ten miles away to the North. So I rode hard and got into town just as the first drops fell. Big feeling of relief, but shaking.

Walrus:

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Lots of little fixes today- strict sizes, wires, mapping and panel lines started.

Shostakovich- The Nose

Posted on 11th Jul 2006 by essiep

24°C, beautiful crisp warm clear day.

Opera at the Garrick: A story about Major Kovalyev sawho one day lost his nose one day. Technically iswas faultless but more than that- it was hilarious. The acting, direction sets and the rest were world class. The whole experience left us feeling wide eyed and elated.

The Operagroup

Resentmant and recriminations

Posted on 3rd Jul 2006 by essiep

30°C, like yesterday, no storms though.

A game of two halves: Everyone seems to be upset about the football. It ended ina penalty shootout with the English team losing. What a rubbish way to conclude a match, a football game is only an hour & ½, so they had a bit of extra time, scored nothing so had this kind of russian roulette. That’s not a game, it’s just chance. A football game is only short anyway; the Tour de France runs for four to six hours, every day for about three weeks, tennis matches are often over four hours. So let the footbal go on, play until someone scores, I’m sure thay can do it, if not players could do some stamina training.

See! I can do the football BS like the best of them. Here’s me never watched a game in my life.

Easy.

Square wheels on that wagon

Posted on 18th Jun 2006 by essiep

22°C, sun, rain then sun

It has been a busy weekend. Six hours of digging the garden yesterday- mostly planting Roses. Muscles all tight and drawing attention to themselves in that weight-lifting way.

Online games fun later after dark-

My online game stats for that server: Wind of War. Apalling how much time I have spent on the server this year. On the other hand- it’s good fun.

At about midnight, the strangest sound. Ths loudest train I have ever heard- it really sounded like it had square wheels on one wagon. It moves across the station at about 10 mph, but looked ( in the darkness) as if the carriages had no payload onboard. What was that all about- it must have woken half of the town.
Another odd thing: a dark grey streak across the sky. Probably a fire over in Brownhills direction. It didn’t seem to disperse as it moved eastwards. Perhaps it was full of ash.

Today – 54 miles on the bike- rush back for guests+food. But then rain.

Cephalonia

Posted on 26th May 2006 by essiep

19°C, rain then sun

Kefalonia: tomorrow we take-off at 8am for the Greek island where Captain Corelli’s Mandolin was set. It’s quite a small island near Corfu To get to the airport on time we have to get up at 02.00 am then drive north. The flight is over three & a half hours because it’s over 1,500 miles assuming a direct route.

I have packed drawing and painting materials but don’t count on it- often I take such things away but they remain unused.

Expect some photos when I get back. Hopefully some can inform painting for the next month or so.

Access’d

Posted on 19th May 2006 by essiep

17°C, sun & showers

Dullfull: no invigilation, just marking all day. I was interested to tears. However, I did made a useful (Access) database with my classes included – all ready for report writing next half-term. It even has pictures of the kids – useful for those that I get mixed up with.

Canvas: Not started the next painting, tomorrow I am getting some more canvases and have an idea for the next one. Hopefully- Kefalonia will fill my head with more paintings.

Oh well.

Going to try…

Posted on 19th Apr 2006 by essiep

rain, 13°C

Flash: should be good to make an online software tutorial. Not sure how to set it up, but it’s worth a try.

more later…

…later it’s taken a while, but I have a workable slide show ready, which just needs captions adding. the image quality seems poor as Flash converts bitmaps to jpegs, set with enough compressoin makes for obvious Jpeg artifacts.

Below is a scan of a demonstration picture I did in-class for a year 10 lesson. I decided to keep this one because often they are rather rough and incomplete. It was finished off after the grou phad gone.

Eeeé

Posted on 6th Apr 2006 by essiep

8°C, less wind, fewer showers, still sun.

Linseed: Used a No.2 brush- eeek! the picture has earings, eyes etc. the cheek needs another glaze, something odd has happend with the gradients there. Nevertheless, it’s going in the right direction.

It’s good to be over that "purple-patch " that stopped me painting in the middle of term. We break up for Easter tomorrow.

Pigs

Posted on 19th Mar 2006 by essiep

Sir Winston Churchill :

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals

and:

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

33 miles cycling today; cautiously.

Micycle

Mike thinks b/hikes

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