a week in art // 20-26 may 2024
Monday 20th May
our hotel had complimentary drinks so started the morning by getting a little coffee at the hotel, and wandered towards the gallery, as we were meeting david for 12.
David got lost on the metro so desiree n i went into a cafe and had a cappuccino each and a pancake too share.
david arrived finally and since our gallery tickets were for 2:15, we went into the rijksmuseum gardens; took some pictures, then sat by the pond and did some sketchin... pretty happy with how they came out.
finally was time for the van gogh museum.. spent a couple hours there - 3 i think. i took some notes and found it really engaging which was nice, going to make another post with pics n notes etc as if i put them on this one it will be soooo long..
also got told off in the museum as i was talking to desiree about one of the paintings and pointed at the bit i was talking about, then some lady came over and said i was too close..... she also called my lady lol.
after the museum trip we were all hungry and found an italian restaurant, which was yum and had some wine too. desiree swapped some salad with me in exchange for some pizza
we booked a canal tour while at the restaurant for 8:30, and had some time to kill so had a wander; went to a supermarket and got some raspberries and a peach yoghurt which turned out to have sunflower seeds in it!!?.
got to where we thought the tour went from and turns out it started from a 10 minute walk away !! we ran there but missed it by 3mins, but luckily they let us get on the next one! which turned out for the better as we started in the daylight then finished as it got dark. did some sketching while on the boat and also took some pictures
after the canal tour went to a bar place and had wine and beer.
Recorded FOUR bnw sound things this day! one of street saxophone, one of fountain noise, one of a view of the street from the gallery as it was interesting how i couldnt hear the street noise at all , just the racket of the gallery which i found interestin, and then some of the water while on the canal.
Tuesday 21st may
sat in gardens again to wait for david. did some more sketching. some of the raspberries i got the day b4 fell out into my bag so now it has a pink stain.. maybe ill try paint with berries at some point as it was very pink.
these are the sketches i did, i really like the tree branch tbh
while meandering the day before, we walked past an art shop, so we went before going to the other gallery today. it was called van beek. got a sketchbook, pencil, and a fun brush that i might use for priming/staining for oils...
went to same cafe again
rijksmuseum.. went to the museum at 2:45.. spent the whole time there til it shut, which was at 5, and still didn't have time to see everything as it is so big ! i was also going quite slow tho
hot dogogogogo
sat for a while as we were all pretty tired and then started walking fairly slowly towards centraal station as we had to get to the airport for 8 at least.
10minutes away from the station it decided to storm and we all got soaked in about 5 seconds.. my shoes were wet the whole way home. flight was delayed so read my book in the airport for an hour.
Wednesday 22nd
workkkk so tired!
watched movie , roman holiday with audrey hepburn, when got home n saved pics from trip off phone onto computer
Thursday 23rd may
painted for a bit b4 work. mayb for just an hr, but sorted this bit a bit
guitar loop got posted
https://youtu.be/MP77COIOPEE
Friday 24th may
bnw sound edited from amsterdam
blog/amsterdam stufff
tesco shop
painted using a raspberry while watching tv
started with two big circles and realised i was kinda making a raspberry.. think it came out lookin p cool.
then was going to paint the whole page pink, but realised looked like clouds so tried to lean into it
did this weird face but idk if i like it
Saturday 25th may
read book, van gogh museum post for 30min,
went to workkk
got home n worked on same post for a little bit and made sausage casserole. was going to do more bits but i am actually quite tired
sunday 26th may
read book,,, was thinking would like to take e.m forster to a gay bar.
tidied room a little and by that i mean folded some clothes..
decided to drive to a nature reserve to do some painting/plein air and had a great time. ended up spending 3 hours there.. was raining so just had a walk for a bit, managed to use up my film roll and also recorded another bnw sound yippeee. it stopped raining eventually n managed to paint for about half an hr . ended up being there for 3 hours in total!
next time i think ill try pastels maybe.
also would like to spend more time outside doing a drawing, however by this point it was 9pm and getting a bit cold, especially due to the fact i was a bit soggy from the rain..., and also dark. had to stumble back to the car
took some pictures on my phone so gonna dump them on a separate post
also bnw sound got scheduled posted:
https://youtu.be/M-deZeU0SBU
got home n ate frozen pizza.
watched paris when it sizzles.. rlly liked it.. concept of 'life'.. thought about it b4 in terms of money n what is living ur life if ur not spending money...cafes restaurants etc all cost money. but also art,, balancing life n art,, art can sometimes be quite isolating n eats up a lot of my time
also did a little painting/drawing with this ink pad ive had for a while
got a few things planned for tomorrow and also tuesday hopefully.. so im excited about that. think i managed to have a p good week despite feeling a bit wonky
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