Not sure if this watercolour sketch of a watercolour of the
interior of The Peter Cushing in Whitstable of The Peter Cushing in Whitstable
will pass muster, or if I will start again, the pad is standing upright on my
desk at the moment and I am thinking on.
The main issue is that every time I go to my favourite
winter lunch spot in Whitstable I will do a bit more of the sketch, layers and
layers as JWMT would say, and in this one it’s the art deco light shades that
give the problem. Hard to draw and hard to get in the right place.
I think painting interiors is more difficult than townscapes
and it’s a good place to paint.
I’m not really sure when I started acquiring recorded music,
some time around 1960 I would guess. At around the age of seven it was the
format that the adults where getting rid of that could be acquired, usually for
free. 78 rpm records, called wax records, but I think shellac (beetle
droppings) perhaps there was a huge beetle farming industry. Being a fairly
lazy type I never really changed format, so much as got the new player and
continued using the old one too. Frankly I use the whole lot.
78s
vinyl
cds
file downloads
but generally get on best with something physical that is
large enough to find.
Anyway today I bought a gramophone record which I put on the
gramophone, which while it is not the latest model, works reasonably well,
doesn’t require much in the way of special training to operate and honestly the
quality doesn’t seem to be significantly worse than the average across all the
formats.
A bit like photographing something and processing it in the
darkroom, photographing something with a digital camera or just painting it I suppose.
Anyone recognise this waterfall in Whitstable?
rest of photos
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