Well, if I stuck with my original title, who would read it? A post titled, "Half-hearted"? You've guessed, haven't you, that this continues my disenchantment phase with the on-line course. But the good news is: (1) This post will be short and sweet (with artificial sweetener); (2) There's actually some fun stuff ahead in the course which I'll be posting in November; (3) It's almost over and then I can reclaim my own priorities.
For now, let's do a quick wrap for the historical record.
October's first artist, Teil Duncan. Except for her bright colours, little appeals to me about her work which, by the way, has spun off into a Crate & Barrel product line. This one of hers had a little resonance:
So I fulfilled the week's assignment with "Kayak Race - Starting Line" -- a scene my friend L and I had witnessed on our way to a Bard on the Beach performance.
Next up: Nathan Oliveira, one of whose paintings is shown here:
Not my kind of guy -- but still, figures in motion. Can't beat the theme (for me, anyway). So I Olivier-ed a recent sketch I'd made to produce "Skateboarder."
Most recently, another new-to-me artist who I won't be getting further acquainted with: Afarin Sajedi. I found her images so distasteful that I only half-listened to the lesson's introductory video -- she liked fish wrapped around people's heads or poking out of their ears; sometimes competing with cutlery, such as forks sticking out of heads; and (yawn) she used the colour red a lot.
Oh, ugh. Enough of that. But I decided to serve up fish and a bunch of other stuff in an assemblage called, "At the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam."
For my upbeat conclusion, I'll recall that even from exercises like these. **I'm learning stuff** You never know where it will lead -- so said the Roman poet Ovid in a quote that I recorded long ago and recently found in a just-surfaced sketchbook:
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
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