Scrummy sketching
Quite a long time ago (almost a year) I did a colour ‘mindless’ sketch of field shapes playing with colour in the ‘lozenges’ I created. I loved creating this, and […]
Category Archives: New York, April 2011
Broadway/Times Square
As part of the exploratory project, I decided to look at painting and stitching on felt for the making day on March 31st. I had long wanted to explore my […]
Dead Art
I’ve been watching this series on Sky Arts 2 called Dead Art. http://www.skyarts.co.uk/art-design/article/dead-art/ One of them I watched this weekend was about the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx NYC. This […]
Paying attention
I remember right back at the start that the tutors said that some of the frames I’d used on my work detracted from them. I hadn’t been thinking about frames […]
Photobooks
Whilst trying to find places to print out largeish NY images, I found this online photo place that does bound books (they all do, but they are generally REALLY expensive). […]
The Empire State…
… turns 80! Dad sent me a link to this story that was in yesterday’s Sunday Mirror. Can’t copy the images out, so hoping the link stays live for a […]
Day 5, April 25th (Easter Monday)
Got up today and the magical mist had returned and taken away all the skyscrapers. So we decided not to go to Staten again (like we had planned to) and […]
Day 4, April 24th (Easter Sunday)
Got up really early – but we were both so tired we didn’t go out for quite a while. The weather forecast meant it was due to brighten up, so […]
Day 3, Sat 23rd April
I overslept badly. Slept through Shelly getting up, drying her hair and going out to get brekkie from the Deli. I only woke up when she opened the curtains! Those […]
Day 2, Friday 22nd April (Good Friday)
Today was Good Friday – and it was! Slept well and got up fairly early and went across the road to the deli and bought a take out Panini and […]
