Walked up into the mountains by myself… saw nobody for about 3 hours. Just sun and rock. Attempted 3 drawings of hills and adobe houses – very unsucessful. I need practice.
Perhaps there is a fundamental incompatability between this light and watercolour. I need white as a presence rather than as an absence.
Will collect [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2002’
Mountains
Juan Miro
Always thought that Miro was off in some kind of exploration of abstraction and the Surreal.
I was wrong.
Trying to paint in this odd lanscape and even odder light has convinced me that that he was a strict realist.
Red dust and rock.
The funny looking trees are Eucylyptus…
The animals maybe he just didn`t [...]
Videobus to the moon
Arrived in a town called San Jose at 7.30pm (via Almeria). There is not an inch of ground to be seen that is not covered by Polythene Greenhouses as we travelled along the coast.
Odd.
If you squint its like fields covered in snow.
How any light actually penetrates the filth of the plastic ill never [...]
Malaga
Malaga – flew Easyjet – almost unbelievably the plane was nice…
What do people eat in Malaga? …we had to ask the tourist info to loacte a Supermercado.
Flipflopisms
So Flipflops is as done as its going to be for a year I should imagine… oo popping up pictures – in the end there just wasn’t eneough time.
I’ve also realised that there are no email addresses – still probably the only people who will look here know us already and its doubtful that they [...]
