There is one sort of sketching that requires people keeping
still and lots of careful shading and tones, this is best done with soft
pencils and lots of patience. There is another sort done where the people are
constantly moving about, coming and going and getting in the way. I guess you
can tell what sort of a sketch this one is, all I can say is you can only get
better at it by doing it and frankly it is difficult to tell if progress is
being made.
In a way there is something I want to capture about how
people are when they are about socialising, something I want to capture about
the way people look now which is different to how they looked at different
times in the past.
The problems in Margate at the moment, the Portas one and a
few others, which I will come to in a mo, are fairly difficult to understand
form the outside, this time they seem to failing to spend the £100k grant they
have received to try and sort the place out a bit.
I did get the Gazette today and it seems have gone up to 70p
I am pretty sure it has just gone up to 65p and this is cover there and on the
Margate blogs.
I visited Margate on the last two Sundays and I guess these
visits would have been similar to visits made by people who didn’t know the
town very well, as my primary concern was with The Turner Contemporary.
Both of these visits were far less satisfactory than the
ones I made during last winter and I have only just realised that this is partly
to do with the market in the old town not being there on a Sunday anymore. I
guess it added more human interaction to the experience, whatever it is, its
absence has made more difference than I expected.
I guess the exhibits in Turner Contemporary not working
properly led to depressing thoughts about the gallery, £2m per year running
costs, equipment far less complicated than that in Margate’s amusement arcades
and a large proportion of it out of order.
The video the gallery put up on youtube the 4th of
this month about the exhibition has 91 views in 11 days whereas the one of Alan
Poole doing his rendition of Animal Farm “No one believes more firmly than
Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let
you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong
decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” George Orwell has only been up since 12th of this
month i.e. 3 days and has had 235 views. Says it all really.
This blog is suffering from another storm of unfortunate
comment, one commenter posting a stream of obscenities relating to the royal
family, another two posting libels about prominent local people all of this in
something of a spam storm. My apologies to you if you have been subjected to
any of this, I try to delete it as soon as I can.
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