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National Gallery staff strike shuts down most exhibitions | Art and design | The Guardian

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

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And just after I told you all to go there too! Sorry. Bad timing.

National Gallery staff strike shuts down most exhibitions | Art and design | The Guardian.

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national gallery – London

09 Sunday Aug 2015

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If you get a near it – and you will because it’s so central – take the time to go into the National Gallery at the top of Trafalgar Square. It’s free and it has PLENTY of seating right in front of some of the most celebrated paintings OF ALL TIME!!!! Feel free to read that again in Kanye’s voice.

Even if art isn’t your “thing”, you will know what these paintings are and by whom. You will. Trust me. You will have heard of these artists – because they’ve been referred to in modern culture so many times – THAT’S how very good they were.

My main man Van Gogh is here – but not his Starry Nights which is my favourite (not only because of the Doctor Who episode with that magnificent speech by Bill Nighy that was superb!) but his Two Crabs which is my second favourite work of his. His Sunflowers is also here – more well known than his other paintings and certainly the focus of the tat in the gift shop. But for mine, Two Crabs is glorious. The colours get me every time. He painted this the year before he took his own life.

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Van Gogh – Two Crabs and Sunflowers

Works by Degas are here – his beautiful dancers.

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Degas – Ballet Dancers

Monet and Manet – side by side even so you can get the differences straight 🙂 Renior, Dürer, Constable, Talouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cezanne…honestly. This is the who’s who of the age AND it’s only one section of the gallery.

While away an hour or two. Sit and sketch from some of the very best. Have a coffee in the cafe and come back for another few hours. It truly is a magnificent place – even the ground you walk on is beautiful.

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The stairwell landing mural.

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art in progress

16 Sunday Feb 2014

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It’s not a good sign when I’m bored by a drawing before I finish it…sigh.

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watercolour your world

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Art, drawing, journal, map, plan, scrapbook, travel

Stamen’s website allows you to type in a place and it renders a map of it in watercolour. Fantastic for scrapbooks of travel, framed on your home’s “Wall of Life”, or part of your travel journal all marked up with where you have been – or want to go!

Go here – http://maps.stamen.com

This is Brisbane.

This is Brisbane.

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.

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meetings

08 Wednesday May 2013

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A good meeting is usually a short one- but sometimes a good meeting is one long enough to doodle AND take notes.

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birthday boy, ahoy

06 Sunday May 2012

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Not a bad subject to try to get my eye in on.  Gorgeous George.  Well, sort of.  I’ve broadened him somewhat and his nose is too bulbous, but I’ll keep on practising.  I know I’m very rusty – and it’s something I want to get back into.

The hardest thing to do is to not tear it up along the way – my “internal critic” is a vicious bitch at the best of times.  Imma gonna slap her silly for as long as I can.

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doodle part 2

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Right side of the doodle started on Sunday.  Still not sure what’s going on here – I seem to be reliving the Three Muskateers in linear form.  Heaps more to do though.

 

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doodle part 1

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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It’s nice to stuff around with colouring in.  I find it very cathartic.

I’m not sure what this will end up like – but it doesn’t really matter.

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lessons handed down

16 Friday Mar 2012

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One of the many things my mum has taught me is a love of handmade things.  It doesn’t matter how “professional” they are in their execution, the only thing that matters is it’s made with love by someone thinking of gifting a piece of their time/love/skill/supplies to another.

To this end, Mum thought a funny gift for Christmas one year was some material, needles and thread for me to learn how to embroider.  Hilarious woman 🙂

So one day a month, I go with my mum to her group afternoon session of crafty ladies.  We sit and stitch (lots of different types of needlecraft) and I listen.  The women are amazing.  All full lives of families, friends, travels, work and most importantly, they talk about their plans for the future.  I love listening to them.  They make me laugh, they help me learn and I always have a better sense of perspective for my life when I leave.

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swallow

14 Saturday Jan 2012

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Everything is bubbling up a bit at the moment. I know it’s happening, and I have in my head how to manage it, but putting the techniques into practice is scary. I’m scared they won’t work.

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