Cooking with J W Turner, Rachel Khoo composes a pickled treat.
Sitting in the gallery, she sketches ingredients suggested by the picture, works on them in her kitchen – and eats the result (see video by Tate Galleries, below)
Having watched the video – is there a favourite picture/painting you have?
How about sketching what ingredients the picture suggests to you – and then experimenting with them, to see what it produces – as Rachel Khoo does?
Feel you want to write or draw something, but just not sure what to tackle, today? Or want fresh warmup challenges? Sketchbook Skool have given a challenge a day for August!
What do you mean – it’s a little bit late telling us this, August has started already?! Do I hear dissension? Verily, I raise a quizzical eyebrow.
But wait – let’s find the positive – you can start today and choose either the prompt for the 1st, 2nd or 3rd of August. Oh look – the challenge against today’s date is “First” – so that takes you to the first anyway!!
Right: pencils sharpened, favourite writing pen aloft, knitting needles at stun-ningly gorgeous, or whatever creative tools you wish…… and GO!
The dreaded cry goes up around 5 pm in most households, “What’s for tea?” If you have very little food in the larder, you can try making some Western Spaghetti..
PES is the name used by indie animator Adam Pesapane. Animation Magazine Online interviewed him in 2008, here’s a couple of questions and answers from it: (more…)
When and where shall I be creative? Well – it is up to you – but do read this poem by Charles Bukowski for some insight:
“–you know, I’ve either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have a place and
the time to
create.”
no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.
(poem found on “Hello Poetry” blog)
detail: photo by Marvin Lynchard, of soldier using art therapy
Just read an excellent article on the website theconversation.com about how creativity is a natural way for the brain to help process trauma. Trauma by its nature is overwhelming – so the brain cannot deal with and store what is happening in the usual way. With normal events, memories are stored using words:
“This makes it easy to recall and describe memories from the past. However, because traumatic events are processed when under extreme distress they cannot be properly assembled together and remembered as a coherent narrative, and so are stored in non-declarative memory, which operates unconsciously and is not processed in words.”
Creative arts have been observed to be helpful in particular situations: creative writing with refugees, drama with soldiers and photography with mental health of HIV/Aids affected women.
What do the creative arts offer?
The article I read was mostly about the works/writings of Professor Bessel Van der Volk and his book “The Body keeps the Score”. Catch the article, written by Senior Lecturer in Abnormal/Clinical Psychology, Bath Spa University at:
Okay. 10 minutes to write about….
If you were given one extra hour today and you weren’t allowed to use it for anything you’d normally do (e.g.; eat, sleep, etc.), what would you do with that hour?
10 minutes yada yada, you know the drill…..
here’s a free 10 minute timer
choose ONE of:
Fill in the blank and keep going. “I really ought to eat more_____.”
Trickier this time – no choice!
