Another 365

The year ahead

Well a bit over 4 years ago I started a project to take a Photo with something red in it every day for a year - partly inspired by Noah Scalin's book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal - Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! and partly wanting to take a photo (or two) every day- it ended up being 366 pictures  (Leap year)  and brought me to do other things too - I would recommend the approach for others, imagine writing a page of something every day for a year - that's quite a book.

Well I've got a few 'Arty' courses coming up and a gift voucher to use on books - so to accommodate the new focus I've got myself ' 365 Days of Drawing' by Lorna Scobie  and I'll try and record the experience over 2020 here

Well it's another leap year so look out for 366 exercises.

Mosaics

oh yes and the photographs continue (I tweet a picture everyday, check me out  under tjbourne on twitter)  and I'm still interested in Mosaics, saw this in the road in Ealing and it felt like it almost was a Mosaic as it stood .

But what is it?

Gearing up for 2020

Well I did try and Blog a couple of times this year, but the 'force' wasn't really with me.

I was busy and did lots of visiting including trips to Copenhagen and St Ives.

Start of 2020 looks like it could be fun (for me) and Westminster politics now at something of a 'Steady state' apart from the battle for the soul of the centre left which could be interesting.

What I have coming up are some great courses (I hope) at City Lit namely:

Metal Sculpture All Levels

and

 Foundation Diploma in  Art and Design Stage 1


One of the things that motivated me to consider further practical courses was the fun that I had doing a Mosaic course  led by Vanessa Benson who ensured that all those taking part were able to create something.

Here's the video of the process

I really would recommend people, with time  who wish to make new friends and pursue an interest  have a look at the CityLit Prospectus and/or website

In fact I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the chat before making my decision (and being accepted), one question I'd half thought about was 'Who's your favourite  artist' and of course it came up, not a problem but there's no definitive answer - is there?

Well it's absolutely impossible isn't it - am a big fan of Caravaggio, Canaletto and Da Vinci  also some of the Dutch masters  like Jan Van Eyck and Rembrandt.

Of course in Modern artists/Surrealism I think Duchamp's work has charm and for Pop it's Ed Ruscha and Lichtenstein (along with British Artists like Eduardo Paolozzi and Bruce Lacey who I see I was blogging about 7 years ago!).

Of yes that reminds me, one of the artists who made me think of Mosaics was Lee Krasner - wife (and some would say the superior artist)  of Jackson Pollock
 
Oh yes and Warhol should not be forgotten  - oh goodness the list from goes on (and on) ..

Anyway expect to hear plenty more about this and other adventures in the year ahead