I'm still computerless. The maddest machine ever put together needs more time on the treatment table. Or more precisely time is needed for a new PSU that will hopefully solve it's issues. I'm also without my sisters laptop she kindly lent me as she has decided to be selfish and take what is rightfully hers away. So today I'm trying to blog from my phone. Handy. But I'm not sure how this will look.Today I took delivery of some fridge magnets that I've had made featuring some of my Doctor Who designs on. Soon they will be available to buy in the shop, both as a set and individually. I'm rather fond of the TARDIS one myself. I was hoping to get some of the classic designs made as well but seeing as how I don't know how financially viable these will be I've decided to just select some from the new series for the time being.I continue to paint away. Working on another Sunflower painting, in which I am challenging myself to only use blue. Building up the tones by glazing the paint layer by layer. It's painstakingly slow as each layer needs to be dry before the next layer is applied. But hopefully it will achieve a level of depth which will allow the colour to glow not unlike a stained glass window. Soon I shall be entering a few competitions but I'm yet to decide on exactly what pieces to enter in which. But fingers crossed I'll be able to have some work on display in the not too distant future. Today's listening was Big Finish's superb 8th Doctor saga "Dark Eyes". Beautiful storytelling and some of the finest Doctor Who you could hope to experience.
Yeah. So I've yet to find my blogging rhythm. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly it is all a bit alien to me. Unfamiliar. So I'm very much fighting against my natural tendancy to shut the hell up. Well, I'm quite good at blabbing on and on endlessly. But I've found it harder to allow this to happen in blog form. Perhaps I need to relax a bit more. I dunno. However this has been compounded by a few things, namely my computer increasingly going insane. It's hard to commit yourself time to writing something when at any moment you might be hit in the face with the blue screen of death. And I mean smacked right in the face! Forget about the light at the end of tunnel, I reckon its that shade of blue we will all go to when we meet our invitable end. It'll probably have that terrifying sound playing as well, that one that sounds like a synthetic attempt at recreating the sound of a machine breaking. That's your computers soul either screaming or laughing at you depending if its psychotic or not by the way. One other reason I've been quiet is that I've been fairly productive, over the last couple of months I've been focussing more on my non Doctor Who artwork. I went through a period of throwing ideas together and looking at a variety artists work. I joined Pinterest and I've been using it as a quick way of creating a wall of images, a virtual one, this helped stick artists together whose work I might not always have compared to each other. This helped churn up some thoughts and I began experimenting with things. Some of which are on going. Now you might think being productive would be good for blogging but I'm very much a final piece person. I prefer to show things when they are finished. I'm quite the solitary figure and there is something to be said about a constant one to one dialogue with something you have created. Feedback can be great, but sometimes its not. Sometimes feedback is better once you've finished and can be applied to the melting pot of the next painting. So a daily update of how I've changed the tiniest bit of a drawing or glazed a bit of colour doesnt really go hand in hand with my working practice. However I've managed to complete a few things recently. You'll have to forgive some of the images, my studio can be a terrible place to take a photo of my work. On a gloomy day (which seem to be almost endless) the light is terrible. Most of the following is either finished or close to being finished. With the sunflower painting being the newest piece and thusly the furthest from completion. With the second half of the new series of Doctor Who well underway I plan to catch up and offer up some reviews and thoughts on the stories so far. I could blog about the 50th Anniversary Special news but beyond jumping up and down shouting the word "Zygons!" over and over again it would just be speculative madness. Hopefully this run of Who will help bed in the blogging into more of a habit or routine. Till then!
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Matt King
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