Swatting up

I've been going to The Forum(Norwich Library) for the past two Saturdays, My partner (yes I have one)- has been doing a probation mentoring course for the voluntary service on Saturdays, so I sit and read in the library from 9:30 till 4pm
I did fall asleep for an hour after lunch this Saturday, I still need my afternoon kip!
Martin (my man) has been on a diet for the past six weeks and has lost over a stone, he's got a bit to go, but hopefully he wont be part of the obesity crisis in a couple of months.

I've been reading a book on contexts, history,politics and culture, it covers all sorts, like censorship;

We're free to create in this modern society and society is free to censor,.... when it suits, like during a war.

The abolition of the Lord Chamberlin's power under theatre act 1968, removed obligation to submit work for approval, this open the doors to creative freedom that, within a more liberal society, sexual attitudes, greater tolerance of sexual explicitness in language, art, literature, drama, film etc meant 'creatives' could really begin to create freely...good:)
Dispite this you can still risk your life for your art
Salmon Rushdie, The satanic verses, knighted just the other day for his work was deemed blasphemus by Islamic fundamentalists and a Fatwa (a death sentence)by Ayarollah Khomeini of Iran, was placed on Salmon Rushdies' head, this Fatwa was lifted in 1998.

So where do I fit in?
I'm meant to be an artist and I'm free to do what I want, although I could be risking my life?
as I could be condemned for my work I hope what I do is worth while....
hey, may as well be middle of the road, as I am anyway and there's very little that shocks people these days.
Thats it for now kidsd, till next time..xxx

paint

Well today the philosophy is if it looks crap it 'aint finished The paint will dry, I can work on it tomorrow.
One technique
is white wet acrylic, thin/normal consistency
with a layer of
Gesso, thick uneven over the wetwhite paint, then take a flat paint brush with an acrylic colour
Pull the flat paint brush with the colour across the surface

The clear gesso is a barrier between the white paint and acrylic colour


The white, where the brush bristles make contact with white acrylic, leaves clean lines of white,through the transluscent colour
White will be the dominant colour where the colour on the brush thins from the loss
of paint on the brush.

2 technique
is gesso left to dry straight on the surface
This creates a surface with colourless thick/thin paint bush strokes
brush-like marks of gesso
Paint over the gesso with acrylic and it looks like you've used a lot of paint on a brush
Thats if you use a brush to do this method