Creative Pact 2010

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Redid my affirmations

Some scary stuff cropping up since the last time I did them. It’s just really all about the fear. I identified four key fears out of about 5 pages of scribble – 1. of letting people down, 2. of not producing enough, 3. of my artistic isolation, 4. that my ideas aren’t good enough for people to take me seriously or might be old-fashioned or derivative. Sheesh! They’re some pretty heavy-duty worries, unlike last time when it all felt a bit trivial. So I’ve made a new set of affirmations which I’m working on putting into my composition journal so I’ll always have them with me, and am planning to do some solid work with them over the next few months. It may all sound like complete rubbish but it’s amazing what these things can do when you give them a chance…

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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Did a little collage

in my composition book – I wanted to keep a page out of the Millais exhibition notes, on his stunning portrait of Louise Joplin, but it looked too plain against the paper, so I found some old dark-green tissue paper and stuck that over the page last night, then today added in the page and part of the cover to remind myself of where I’d found it. Looks much better than if plain.

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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Did some pen sketching in the park

I went for a walk and attempted a few quick pen sketches while I was at it. Not fabulous, although I was quite pleased with the quick drawing of a man who was standing staring at the ground, which was encouraging because my figures are usually All Wrong in a big way.

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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Satisfying my "ear-worm"

I’ve had certain tracks from Dire Straits’ album Brothers in Arms (esp. “So Far Away”, “Your Latest Trick” and “Brothers in Arms”) stuck in my head for several weeks now. I don’t know why – I was never a huge Dire Straits fan and while I liked this album I’d never bothered to buy it and hadn’t even thought about it for years. I have no idea what started this “ear-worm” (as I believe the literal translation of the German term for this phenomenon has it) but it was driving me nuts, hearing these little bits and not the whole song, so when I put in my last Amazon order I figured What The Hell, for £5 it was worth it. So listening to it now, and enjoying it, but somehow it’s kind of like running my brain through the speakers. Odd.

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