{"id":26495,"date":"2025-02-16T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26495"},"modified":"2025-02-17T07:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:31:59","slug":"art-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26495","title":{"rendered":"ART: More\u2026 !?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two more\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well, it feels like the cork is off, and, um\u2026 to quote Count Arthur Strong (I think?), \u2018the genius is out of the bottle.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That may sound fatuous and vain. But you know what? Fuck it! I\u2019ve had more than my fill of, up to this point, being timid and negative, and running myself down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Via Velazquez\/Picasso.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I recently heard – and very much enjoyed – Stephen Mangan, on BBC R4\u2019s Desert Island Dicks. He came across extremely well, to my way of seeing and hearing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amongst many other strands, all talked about with a very winning combination of humility, frankness, and both melancholy and joie de vivre, he mentioned succeeding as an actor in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephen Mangan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He talked about how the very clich\u00e9d British type of diffidence – with which I\u2019ve always been appallingly afflicted (modesty, false or real) – will see you sink like a stone, out in the Wild West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been a total twat, many a time. And I\u2019ve pumped out crap of all sorts, from the literal stuff to the verbal kind, to the \u2018creative\u2019. But right now I\u2019m determined to accord my creativity a greater degree of respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Via Matisse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Partly on account of all the suffering I\u2019ve been through; be that physical ailments or mental anguish. Be it self-inflicted, inherited, nature, nurture, whatever. Whether I\u2019m a total pussy, or a psychic warrior, I giveth not an shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teresa\u2019s taken a few snaps of me at work recently. It\u2019s nice for her, as well as me, to see me getting back into creativity. Hopefully she\u2019ll start doing (more) art as well? She does lots of creative arty stuff at work. But I\u2019m talking about her own personal \u2018fine art\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few days ago\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Today\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And here\u2019s another, \u2018via Matisse\u2019, from earlier today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Via Matisse. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Studying the greats is always good practice. Copy, borrow, steal\u2026 learn what there is to be learned from them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, out of the three artworks of mine featured in the above portion of this post, the via Velazquez\/Picasso is the best, or most promising. The other two, both via Matisse, show some promise. But they aren\u2019t quite there<\/em>, yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LATER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some time later\u2026 a couple more from today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A \u2018background\u2019 study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My little sketchpads, which are ages old (and have some drawings in them going back well over a decade), are starting to fill up. And the content is quite varied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From pencil sketch copies of heraldic stuff, to \u2018background studies\u2019, to copies of stuff by The Masters (old and new), and original stuff. In pencil, pen, pastel (oil and chalk), with acrylic, and all sorts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, to my great surprise and gratification, there are threads in all of this stuff that run way, way, way back, to my teens, in terms of ideas, approaches, motifs, techniques, and so on. My \u2018crisis of artistic identity\u2019 seems, to me right now, to be resolving itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prime beef\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I like the above picture. Based on a Thomas Weaver painting of a cow, or bull, called \u2018Comet\u2019! I think I\u2019ll do a series in this line, maybe called \u2018Prime Cuts o\u2019 Beef\u2019? I think the bovine itself needs a bit more abstractifying\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also like, sometimes, to take pictures at various stages of execution, such as this little gallery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 because sometimes I might prefer an earlier stage to the \u2018completed\u2019 end product. With the above, for example, I quite like the first, which has more white and less black in the overall composition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it feels like the cork is off, and, um\u2026 to quote Count Arthur Strong (I think?), \u2018the genius is out of the bottle.\u2019 That may sound fatuous and vain. But you know what? Fuck it! I\u2019ve had more than my fill of, up to this point, being timid and negative, and running myself down. … <\/p>\n

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