Watercolour Wednesday

An angry bear and a tired owl.



Today's Watercolour Wednesday is brought to you by the colour brown.

Life Drawing at Candid Arts, Islington

It's been about six months since I last went to a life-drawing class and as a result every drawing I did today looked like the model had three extra vertebrae. You can see ghostly, incorrectly-positioned heads in almost all of these pictures.

Textiles Advanced Workshop at Morley College Gallery

Entry: Free

I stopped by Morley Gallery today to see the exhibition by the Advanced Texiles group. The Advanced group's work was clearly very highly-skilled, but the show was mixed in terms of the ideas behind the pieces - some just seemed better thought out than others. The show runs until 28th July. Below are pictures of a few of my preferred pieces.

Street art?

I tend to use the term "graffiti" rather than "street art". The latter seems a lot like the term "graphic novel" - a way to indicate that this is a culturally-worthy version of an otherwise worthless medium, which isn't really a judgement I'm interested in making. That said, graffiti usually means painting, so I guess I'm going to have to broaden my vocabulary for this post for reasons that will soon become clear.

Exhibition, part 2

More pictures from the show, this time of my own work! The fantastic photograph below was taken by Jay Alix, the rest are my own.

Exhibition, part 1

The gallery, as the exhibition opened on Wednesday evening:

Setting up the exhibition

The exhibition set-up all went much more smoothly than expected. The main problem was the lack of tall stepladders - the gallery only has one stepladder tall enough to reach the ceiling so it was in constant demand. We spent two full days setting up the show and it was surprisingly tiring. I had no idea just how physically demanding it is to install an exhibition.

Graffiti

Let me start with an update to my previous post - Ai Weiwei was released from prison on 22nd June.

The artists of Leake Street marked the occasion.


There was also another great skull painting there.