first drawing lesson

I had my first drawing lesson today.
This is a scan of my first drawing. I am very pleased with it and hope to improve over the summer holiday - my teacher is pleased with me too.... so I am being brave and posting it for you to see.
I will post each time and hope you will see something develop...

chicken shack. i'd rather go blind

sooooo English - I love it

What is normal?

I was looking up some information for a friend of mine, whose child has just been diagnosed with autism and I came across this site.
Depending on your sense of humour, try the test "could I be NT" to see if you are - the answers you can choose from are funny and really enlightening.

Round and Square - early entry

Each week I realise I haven't done an entry for the 2 things challenge when I see Bev's on her non-blog blog. So here is my entry for Sunday, as early as possible, almost. I wanted to take more pictures in Bristol as it is a fascinating place, but ran out of time so here are some rounds and squares.
I am not happy with the picture through the gate, hurry is not a good thing, because I didn't get a clear image of the strange house I was aiming for - but I like the gate shape reflecting the windows behind. And I think it is a picture of an aspect of Bristol, its mixture of old and new and its strange topography. Postscript. Strange, the picture comes out better on blogger... you can see the funny tall thin house with its odd round window when you click to enlarge. Yippee!

busy busy busy

Hello there
I am swamped with work at the moment and it's removed any kind of creative desire or thought, so no blogging.
However, my sister-in-law sent me a link to her brother-in-law's new art website. I like his stuff and I think the web-site is good and uncluttered. Take a look.
It is here

See you around. I haven't taken any pics recently and the roses are just going over, so I am sorry - they have been particularly lovely this spring. Maybe the next flush...

Tom Waits

I have loved Tom Waits for years. If you like this, there is lots of his stuff on You Tube. I love to see him performing - he is so drunk and so surreal and at the same time so artistic and intelligent.

Salvatore Adamo - La nuit -1964

I put him on yesterday pictures. but here is Adamo. Reminds me so much of teenage fumblings at the disco! LOL This one went on being played for ages.

Les Négresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche (The Fly)

I loved Les Negresses Vertes - they were unusually outrageous for a French band. Can I say that without sounding racist? I have always loved a lot of French music, but not much of the popular stuff has been on the wild side.

SPLASH AND BURN

I'm not so sure if this will work. I did paint this collage/painting at the time I was doing those swimming-pool photoshop things. I wasn't happy with it but decided to be brave and share - so that when I finally really get to grips with paint, you will be able to see that I have made progress. Hur hur. I scanned it in and was really pleased to see all the thick paint and blobs showing... but too huge - around 100MB - I reduced the size of the picture via the scanner and Photoshop but it was still too large to upload to Blogger. I have had to save it as four smaller pieces and then reduce quality to Medium... and not sure how this will work on here. Ah me. So here it is, mixed media, printout of photoshopped photo, collage painted over in acrylics (I think the paints are almost as old as the photograph was! )