Took this a while back in the Christchurch art gallery
Love it.
Ink
I have been making ink sketches with the grandchildren 5 and 7 years old. I offer them watercolours, soft pastels and ink. Ink! Did you bring the ink! Nice to work with but it takes some heavy supervision.
Efforts below. Some are mine. All the photos are mine and they add to the composition.
Christchurch Art Gallery
Michael Springer, Canterbury Artist
I went to the East Side Gallery today, and liked this one by Michael Springer, so googled and found more
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Book: The Heart, Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean
“Marc Petitjean grew up in a house where Frida Kahlo’s painting, The Heart, also named Memory, hung on one of the walls. Uncovering the story of how the painting was given by Frida to his father, Michel Petitjean, he unfurls not only a passionate love affair between them in pre-Second-World-War Paris, but also a back story about Frida’s paintings around the time and the intersections between France’s surrealist circles and contemporary politics.”
Enjoying this half invented book with lots of name dropping of French artists in the thirties. Interesting. Here is the art in question 
Listening on Scribd
and reading on Kindle.
So many people! I’ll bring them in and their art as I did with another book Optic Nerve (blog post)
I’ll start with Frida and then Diego Rivera
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Ralph Hotere at the Christchurch Art Gallery
Ralph Hotere: Ātete (to resist)
“Celebrating the artistic vision of one of Aotearoa’s most significant artists.”
Here are a bunch of photos.
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Russian short stories — George Saunders.
Loved this podcast.
https://radioopensource.org/write-like-the-russians/
Here is the description of the podcast:
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Listened to – On Being with Krista Tippett
Drew Lanham’I Worship Every Bird that I See’
Drew related to Mercy Mercy Me as an ecology anthem. Yes.
I watched these two kererū as I listened.
Marvin Gaye
Whoa, oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain’t what they used to be, no no
Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the North and South and East
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Some favourite digital sketches — A Gallery
Browsing through old images I’ve made I’ve picked these out as favourite, more or less figurative, ones. I may add more.
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Illegible Calligraphy
A gallery of images — virtually illegible!
