After a two week spate of moving around books in my
bookshop, something that has to be done as life, leisure and reading weaves
around changes in and brought about by technology, I gave myself a couple of
days off.
On Saturday I took the bus to Canterbury, if I take the bus
it means that I can’t really buy books for my bookshop, something I had done
rather a lot of on Thursday. The bus takes about the same amount of time as the
car and costs about the same as taking the car, unless of course you have some sort
of free pass, in which case it doesn’t cost anything.
on the painting front
I have this one from upstairs in Chocolate Cafe, which I did a bit to.
I have this recently started one from downstairs in Chocolate Cafe, which I did some more to.
Started sketching in another one
and went into the cathedral and did a bit more to this one which is nearly finished.
I suppose an obvious question would be, why not
just take a photo, or take a photo and paint the picture from the photo at
home.
I think if you were a fish with bulging eyes you
could possibly see something like this without moving either your head or you
eyeball.
The Beaney is Canterbury's library art gallery and museum.
Eyeballing the Beaney, ars longa vita brevis, doesn’t actually
mean, I have a long bottom so have sat down, but, art is long and life is
short. So that's OK.
and scientia veritatis imago, doesn't mean, imagine playing with matches, but, knowledge of the image, which I take to mean, learn about pictures, seems reasonable.
For the education of working men, well this seems a bit dodgy to me. After all this building went up in around 1900 perhaps they thought it inadvisable to educate women. I should point out here that both of the statures above seem to be of people of the female persuasion, ars longa and scientia veritatis wiht the plate and the pot, perhaps they were washing up but it does look to me as thought they were doing the learning.
Here are the links to the Ramsgate photos http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/617/id16.htm and http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/617/id18.htm
For the dedicated bibliophiles, here are the pictures of the books that went out in the bookshop on Saturday http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/strange-encounters-in-bookshop.html
For the education of working men, well this seems a bit dodgy to me. After all this building went up in around 1900 perhaps they thought it inadvisable to educate women. I should point out here that both of the statures above seem to be of people of the female persuasion, ars longa and scientia veritatis wiht the plate and the pot, perhaps they were washing up but it does look to me as thought they were doing the learning.
Here are the links to the Ramsgate photos http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/617/id16.htm and http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/617/id18.htm
For the dedicated bibliophiles, here are the pictures of the books that went out in the bookshop on Saturday http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/strange-encounters-in-bookshop.html
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