Looking into the Valley

 From Trafalgar South looking down onto Trafalgar with Baw Baw enshrouded in cloud in the distance.

On Saturday I had to go for a drive through the hills to collect something. On my way home I took the opportunity to take a byway which I knew had great views in order take these photos. The paddocks are green on the cusp of hay making season.

More Aderine

Little Thing

Last night I was watching some of Ewan McGregor & Charlie Boorman's Long Way Round on DVD and to do something constructive I started to do some sort of drawing. Just triangular and rectangular shapes meshed together and today I decided to see how it could work out in ink and water colour. I think that it's alright. Perhaps it just needs the linear stuff and just some colour. As to the DVD very much 'boys own adventure and humour', but having been 'on the road' before it starts the itch again. I love that sense of waking up in the morning and not knowing/wondering where you will be in the evening and that even disasters will be ok later. In fact highlights when you're not living through them.

The Well at the World's End

I've not long finished reading this. It was an enjoyable book. I think that the idea of moving without air travel is nicely romantic. As is making it up as we go along. A certain naiveté about places, the existence of Laos,  a little bit bemusing to me. In the end though it is a book of curiosity, learning and dreaming and we grow through reading it.

A Mosaic of stuff

A few things have happened recently. I've been ripping old LP's to the computer. It has been a trip down memory lane. Some forgotten things from the past have been resurrected. I've really enjoyed hearing again the work of the Zombies, Larry Norman, Golden Earring, Bruce Cockburn and Woody Allen.

I love the jazz influence of their own work and the covers that they did. I think that they are completely underrated.

As challenging and poignant as ever.

I don't know how well known they are apart from Radar Love, but powerful, if often dark songs that a friends Dutch cousins introduced me to.

Woody Allen was one of the first film directors that 'I followed'. Beginning with Annie Hall and dribbling into silence with the arrival of our children some time around Hannah and Her Sisters. I remember by horror watching Manhattan and the characters self centredness destroying the relationships they loved. My Sister bought this back in the '70s and it's a treasure.

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Larry Norman as biting as ever in his questioning of complacency.

A 'drawing' done on box board. Small and 'playful'. I sized the box board with rabbit skin glue and then put another surface of egg tempera and whiting on it. The image is done in ink and albumin tempera.

Some Drawings and Sugru

I bought some Sugru because I wanted to hack my old desert boots. They are pretty old and the heels have worn away as you can tell, but you don't find red desert boots everywhere so I'm going to see how it goes.

mucking around

Subtle changes to Adella and others to Adelyn

I've done a little bit of work on Adella just incrementally adding to and inching my way towards stasis.

Larger changes to Adelyn including a bit of patterning. I have have a trouble with gold and silver and have to hope that I don't use it too much.

Something new. A as yet unnamed on a piece of masonite that I've gessoed with traditional gesso.

Aden finds a home

 Arion took Aden home after his visit for my birthday and put it in the frame it was made for.

I've also done more work on Adelyn

It's feeling a bit better.