Sunday, 9 November 2008

They look like floorboards but upside-down




When I came in drunk this morning I spilt marmite on the kitchen floor and then my friend showed me a video of him hitting his friend over the head with a frying pan to complete an elaborate excuse he'd used to explain his absense from work.
I've always like the idea of someone hitting another person round the head with a frying pan. Perhaps its a sign that actually fried foods or the fumes from hot oil triggers violence in people.

The second picture is part of the Burial of the Dead project. its incomplete but I ran out of time and am sick of working on the project so it'll stay like this forever now. The top one was a pattern I drew to incorporate in my pieces but my tutor said that he kind of actually prefered it to some of the final images. I think maybe I do to. I think I'd like to do things more like that for final images, because I love creating patterns but am usually reluctant because it doesn't take me very long to do and I seem to have decided that you judge a pictures successfullness and quality by how long you have spent on it. Which is why I take so long to do anything.

I ate some celery today and I think it was off.

Friday, 7 November 2008

The bigger your bed, the better the tent


I've looked at this for so long now I can't really work out what's good and what's bad anymore.
Despite this sounding like a typically lipgloss faux-philosophical jabber, I do simply mean I'm sick of trying to make this picture good and not knowing how. 

I gave in a overly unnecessarily-anxious project on Monday, which although a mostly enjoyable process, proved a disappointing finale (like at the circus), which showed how little thought I had put into executing my ideas. (When in actual fact I had put a lot of thought into executing my ideas. It just didn't make all that much difference)
Now we have a new project, I have started drawing today, which is a good start, considering I have weeks before panic countdown begins. 

I decided to go round the charity shops tomorrow to collect a variety of board games for the house. I think playing board games is probably a largely overlooked route of strengthening some part of your brain. And since most of the parts of my brain need strengthening, this would be useful. And I also very much like the idea of sitting in on a cold and rainy day with a cup of tea, slippers and a good cd, whilst playing a board game with someone who holds good company.


Thursday, 6 November 2008

Quadruple sized sheets please




Too much happening to ramble on about nothing.
Working hard though.