Guy fawkes

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Guy Fawkes Night
For non-British readers:
Guy Fawkes night celebrates the execution of a Catholic bomber and loads of his accomplises. He wasn’t really a terrorist, more of a leader of a coup. He attempted to blow up the government, rather than kill random innocent civilians.
He was sentenced to be hung, drawn and quatered (just in case). Except he jumped off the scaffold just before and broke his neck- dying instantly. You can’t blame him after lengthy torture."Pah!" they said, so they hung/chopped up loads of his co-conspirators.

But that was all in 1605- and we British don’t do that anymore. We imprison terrorists and let them out after a few years. So don’t panic Osama.

Krumpf..krumpf

10°C, sun+rain

Scanned a drawing made during a pastoral meeting of yesterday. I liked this enough to copy into my A6 sketch-book but it didn’t come out the same at all. Ack well…
I added some others onto the School Planner section since they were made in meetings.
 
Visit this site for a remarkable concept art artist. His pictures are mosrly done in photoshop with a wacom graphics tablet. –> John Wallin

Precipitation

15°C:rain+warm+boistrerous wind.

Sprite has taken longer than any picture this year, especially if you count the restarts. I need to do a quick picture of two before my confidence is eroded. The A4 oil-paper pictures are excellent for quick pictures and still look good in picture frames.
Thoughts are fed by the Peter Howson book, currently grey-orange-deep cerulean blue.
Lets see what comes up.

On the left

sunrainbutnocycling

How can you tell if an artist was left-handed?
The most obvious clue about an artist’s handedness is in shading. Keep your left elbow still, and wave your left hand infront of your across the keyboard. What diredtion does your hand move- top-left-to-bottom right? Artists tend to do shading of large areas in that difection too ( if they are left-handed). Watch out for the times they have turned the paper round, or used cross-hatching. You’ll have to judge it and come up with a probability.
 
It’s harder with paint if brush-strokes aren’t visible in which case you’ll have to look at the composition. Left handers find it easier to draw face profiles looking to the right. So if there are more faces looking to the left, then possibly the artist is a right-hander.
Here’s a list of some:
Appel, Karel 
Crumb, R.
Dufy, Raoul 
Dürer, Albrecht
Escher, Fuseli, Henry
Holbein, the Younger, Hans
Klee, Paul
Kollwitz, Kathe
Lautrec, Toulouse 
Landseer, Sir Edwin
Leonardo da Vinci 
Michelangelo Buonarotti (ambidextrous)
Munch, Edvard
Picasso, Pablo 
Raphael 
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rubens, Peter-Paul 

Bristol

19°C

Today is a day to remind oneself what an adorable city Bristol is. Imy wanted to see the university since it’s on her list top apply for.
Ten years must have passed since the last time I was in Clifton Triangle/village or Park Row. As the day wore on it all came back to me- bit by bit, there was no sudden revelation as I got out of the car. We went without a map. Things did click into place throughout the day. Finding my way around got easier and easier.
The traffic is still horrendous, but there is such a great atmosphere. We didn’t make it to Montpelier, so therefore saw no dogpoo.
Before we left, we (accidentally) found a cafe that I used to frequent for a final snack for the road. Everyone else in there was either reading  or writing, each one was alone. That is a rare sight in Cafes here.
 
We played onthe limestone slide near the Suspension biridge, shopped in Habitat. And best of all, I bought the new Arabstrap LP from one of the many record shops.  It was just like old times ( except I wasn’t on my bike).
Aand, there are still loads of cycle shops, at least 4 were visible.

Done it!

Very windy


27 miles cycling- it’s getting dark too early.
FINISHED the Japan trip Video, it’s on a DVD here on the desk waiting to be tested on a set-top box. The last hold-up was a problem with sound at the end. Now it’s all done, though it took ages to render/process/whatever before the final burn to disk.

Found a very useful site about windows security
Techtrax. Now the pictures in my site are a bit more secure- hurrah for templates and javascript.

Tremble

14°C, heavy rain


This dog is rather terrified of fireworks. Even if she hears them from in the house she hides and trembles. No point taking her for a run in the dark then. An odd deal indeed.

The current painting is turning into a real struggle. Hopefully I can post a progress shot tomorrow. It needs some strong inspiration, the lighting is all confused and so am I.
Blame this cold in my head.

One more day

14°C,

that painting is hideous! The Sprite one I mean. Last night I added a much thicker layer of frotte to give the face some body, also started to blur the edges. Note to oneself- get radical with it- temple-forehead-nose is grossly underdeveloped. I hate paintings at this stage; usually doing a quick A4 picture diminishes this uncomfortable feeling.

Fireworks are bothering Bessie. She hid behind my legs today on our walk when one went off (at quite a distance). She sat trembling. That dog really hates fireworks.

I need a holiday.
 

Long long wait

Not feeling well, = no exercise= feeling cold

Amazon order placed on the 15th September=
Items not yet dispatched:
Delivery estimate: 31 Oct 2005 – 15 Nov 2005
  • 1 of: Drawing Restraint 9 [SOUNDTRACK]
  • 1 of: Tissues and Issues
  • 1 of: Peter Howson
  • 1 of: Black Cross/Red Star: The Air War Over the Eastern Front
  • 1 of: Mezzanine
  • 1 of: Happiness

Amazon are good aren’t they.

BTW: I am listending to some Japanese "No" music, I dont’ know what it’s called – it’s written in Japanese.  

Fan base

17 to 12°C- getting much cooler. Summer has finished.

Added a new fan to this computer- it’s a really quiet one so can be turned up to quite a fast speed. The remaining noisy one is in the power supply. Secondly: the new RAM, phoned the shot today & they suggested uprating the BIOS – so I wil give it a try, but it seem unlikely that the cause is there.
Finally- Pacific Fighters has ben upgraded slightly. tha 30MB patch has addeda new map and changed the flight dynamics in an interesting way.
 
No painting today-since I’m not feeling well enough.