Sunday 20 September 2015

7000 + words










You may have read in the papers - right after the endless stories about how Jeremy Corbyn cloned Lenin and then totally did it with him while flipping off the queen - that I have finally finished the zoetrope I was working on. The above represents the remainder of the images used in the final thingamajig (well, there are over a dozen variations on the first image - the first frame of the animation inside the internal drum - each minutely dfferent from the last - but I think I can sppare you them) . Does it work? Am I happy with it? Yes and yes. Now let us never speak of it again.  Also there's another page of Rag and Bone because that's still stumbling on.

I've actually enrolled on an art course at my local college in an effort to improve my basic fundamentals, give me a grounding in different mediums and get me out of the house and away from the accusing voices that haunt my empty hours. I do worry that there might be a bit too much emphasis on the fundamentals. Last week I drew a pyramid. This week; spheres.

Love and Fishes

Dave D