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a week in art // 18-24 march 2024

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 monday 18 woke up 2pm. not bad 4 me. cleaned a bit of mouldy stuff on desk dr who n worked on drawings.. really like the tableau thing goin on on this page.. also forgot how fun biros are downloading adobe,,free trial but gonna try delete at end of week and see if they offer me a discount bc its nearly 60 quid now!!! gets billed on  26th had lots of fun on adobe.... now its 4am whoops.!!! edited some of the film i made and scanned ages ago for beginning montage of film into singular images and downloaded all the recordings i made on my phone for the black and white sound series i had to stop doing. also found another guitar loop i made ages ago, so will have to edit that into a vid, which shouldnt take too long... feelin a lot better. esp since finishing the week in art post for last week. havent done as much as id like but there is somethin tuesday 19 edited some of the black and white sound recordings id done since the last time i had adobe.. also edited the guitar loop recording i

a week in art // 11-17 march 2024

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 monday 11th crossstitched all day RIP finished it tho Tuesday.. went to scunthorpe . on way back light came on on my dashboard yipee Wednesday  worked an overtime shift... thoughts at night.. technically it's Thursday morning... need to go on scout for life in art... theatre chorlton players thing, open mic find an interesting one.. life drawing? THURSAY... had to go to job centre, & then to work. tired. rang mechanics FRIDAY... read... book thoughts so far. reading a thick book And the font is small so gonna be a trudge to get through... watched POOR THINGS!!! going to dump all my thoughts on a separate post... dr who and sketchbook... oil pastels, blue biro.. poor things has fisheye shots so decided to do this circle been wanting to do a project called nest where its like a collage of stuff i have in my bed... for now decided to do some drawings of some pictures i took for prep,, then can eventually merge it into some wonky looking collage... also insp visually by this artwo

a week in art // 03-10 march 2024

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 sunday 3rd march worked on chair painting.  did some deld research.. n had idea for a sound piece / album on the subject of sleep?... monday 4th march embossed metal... sketches in sketchbook while watching tv. been nice. really enjoyed layering the blue biro on this, managed to get it really dark and solid  from the week earlier too: was going to paint this, but decide to start drawing it until i finish my chair painting did some sketches of some stairs for tests/experients for the booklet i wanted to make with my essay on rooms i finished last year... tuesday 5th went to hobbycraft was going to draw with oil pastels in the evening, but ended up cross stitching instead. new sketchbook.. intending to hopefully fill it with landscapes... lil spring/summer project maybe / hopefullyyyyyyy. also got some more oil paints.. went for different tones of the colours i usually go for to see what difference it makes... also got some paint from the range for 1.99 !! wednesday 6th read, wrote out

kitchen lithography attempt 1

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finally today i decided to try kitchen lithography since i had cola and tin foil  I don't have a lithography pen/pencil so i thought i'd try using oil pastel as that was suggested in a video i watched and also its oil based which is important for this process.. I also used oil paint instead of ink as the ink i have is water based and i didnt want to just but lithography ink if i could just try with oil paint first... didnt have any acetate so just cut a square out of a roses lid looked around me for inspiration as to what to draw and decided to draw a money plant.. wrote 'money by the win/dow' next to it too and added some lil swirls n stuff.... cola bathhhhhhh swooosh used a brush to put on the oil paint as my roller is a foam one and it tends to soak up a lot of paint and i didnt really want to use it with oil paint... the first print came out ok, but was lacking boldness.. I also found it best to dab it on with the brush as strokes was smearing it everywhere and also