Saturday, March 24, 2012
Living out Loud by Keri Smith has arrived...
...and it belongs to me. This book is a lot smaller than I thought it would be, about A5 sized, which is great because you can fit it into your bag and take it anywhere.
It is such a lovely book that I dare not rip or tear it apart like I would her other books. Some of her ideas are great and I have yet to do but once I have some quiet time I can get on with it.
I like the child play ideas, get back to what it is like to play. We get so serious as adults that we forget what it is like to have fun and for some they have to fuel their bodies with alcohol to enjoy themselves.
So let's do something adventurous like making a rag doll or a paper doll to dress with paper clothes, does it really seem so childish? It certainly sounds more fun than thinking about day to day drag of adult life, don't you?
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Blog Postings
Now I have my new camera I can post my sketches, paintings, creations etc. Hooray!
Let the mayhem begin....
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Keri Smith - Living Out Loud
I have just ordered this book by Keri Smith. I think her stuff is fun and opens the mind to being creative beyond what I would normally do. This book from what I have read, takes you back to when you were a kid and get creative in a child like sense, I find most of her books are like this. My other Keri Smith books are in storage so I have not been able to dig them out to complete them - sigh! However, I wanted something new and a little different and besides the book I wanted was out of stock so this one it is.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Art Book Review: Sometimes I think, Sometimes I am by Sara Fanelli's
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After 6 months of waiting, I finally got the book, Sometimes I think, Sometimes I am. What can I say? If I said that I am a little disappointed it would be an understatement, (please note I use profanity along the way). This book was not cheap and nor was it quick to come flying through my letter box.
After reading raving reviews I was expecting something spectacular and I got something that was, well, blah! I was not expecting to see doodles on any old scrap of paper or 'things' that might be laying around. Sara Fanelli's work is meant to be new and great but I did not get that sense from what I saw in this book. I have seen scrap booker's do fabulous work much better than the drivel I saw in this ever-so-long-title of a book. If I had been able to look at it in a book store I would never had spent my hard earned cash on it.
Someone somewhere did their typical pretentious critique art talk about the book and the mythical creatures taken and depicted in a fabulous way. To me it looked like someone had doodled something whilst talking on the telephone or bored in a meeting. Not quite sure why they are raving about it all. I draw shit like this all the time when I am die-ing of boredom.
It infuriates me why art critiques talk bollocks, I guess they are paid to talk shit and can say what they want. Hang on a minute, am I not also critiquing the work? Yup, I am and I am not getting a single penny out of it, oh no, I am the idiot who flushed money into the toilet because I could not think of anything better to do with it. If she can have a book written about her drawings on scrap pieces of paper then why can't someone who is making fabulous pieces of work also be talked about? I guess you have to produce crap to get noticed which includes a tent with all the people you have slept with and a cow in a glass box. Art? No. Shit? Well, yes.
Am I being too harsh, should I be looking at this in a different way, she is recycling and producing work etc? No I shouldn't because that is not how the art critiques portray her work in this book and I am disappointed in it.
I have seen some of Sara Fanelli's work and she is very good, but this book portrays the complete opposite of what she is good at and I think it should be taken off the shelves immediately.
Humph!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Camera - hooray!
I finally have a new camera for my birthday, from me! What does this mean? I can easily upload my paintings which I fail to do adequately with my phone camera. I have been wanting a camera for a while now, because all my other ones have broken :(
The above FujiFilm camera in red is now mine, all mine. I have not tried to use it yet because I want to open it on my actual birthday, well, I have waited this long.
YEAH!
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