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No sign of this working, so I just can't be bothered any more! Lion. A present from Japan rather than China. There were 2 of them, made...
ferristeaching
Apr 11, 20212 min read
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Monasticism?
The first time I have ever heard that word on BBC Breakfast! Coatlicue. Acrylic and enamel on canvas. I will never know if I have made...
ferristeaching
Apr 10, 20212 min read
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School next week?
There may be work, or not. I did 4 hours in March. Healthy, wealthy, but not so wise. Should buy a new pad on Monday in The Works, if we...
ferristeaching
Apr 9, 20212 min read
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Tree-hugging
I am not an eco-warrior, but I watch the news and despair! Leopard seal. Stuffed. Drawn in the Zoology Museum. Just seen the Beeb about...
ferristeaching
Apr 8, 20211 min read
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One of those day?
Broke the glass in my cafetiere this morning. Great start! Nile Perch. ballpoint over watercolour on A4 paper. While this is a more or...
ferristeaching
Apr 7, 20212 min read
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Glitchy computer
All I want, Microsoft, is for the bloody thing to work! Ocelot. ballpoint over watercolour on A4 paper. Done in the wonderful Cambridge...
ferristeaching
Apr 6, 20212 min read
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Snowing up north!
Not down here, though the sky looks dull and threatening rain. Moonrise, acrylic and enamel collaged on paper. Another Kimbolton picture....
ferristeaching
Apr 5, 20212 min read
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Boat Race
I hate sport, but 'Circenses et panem' seems to be the theme of the moment! Gosh, I love drawing with biro: you can't rub out mistakes. I...
ferristeaching
Apr 4, 20212 min read
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TikTok and on up
I think I have finally sussed the formatting. We will have to see. Bleeding Van Gogh. Improv on thin grey crd. Done from memory. The...
ferristeaching
Apr 3, 20212 min read
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TikTok
Bizarre start to my affiliation - three followers in 24 hours. Way to go! Asylum, 12x12" collage on paper, 1980s. I was going to do 52 of...
ferristeaching
Apr 2, 20212 min read
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Yet another awful day
Seemed to be going alright but then took a plunge and that spoils any goodness from earlier. Millennium 11. At least with this one I can...
ferristeaching
Apr 1, 20213 min read
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Not April Fools
So as to avoid posting on that naughty day, I have made a second one today. millennium 13. May also simply be that I am feeling agitated....
ferristeaching
Mar 31, 20212 min read
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March merde
Not sold a thing. It's another month that's a pile of pants! Millennium 12. If I ever get famous and some Courtauld PhD candidate is...
ferristeaching
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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How I hate woolly thinking
I don't know why I put BBC breakfast on in the morning. Perhaps I should switch to Mexican radio? ICT let's you nowadays. Millennium 10....
ferristeaching
Mar 30, 20212 min read
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Up at Silly O'clock
Not that it matters much, but have lain awake for a fair while before rising! Millennium 15. There seemed to be so much silly debate...
ferristeaching
Mar 29, 20212 min read
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Ridiculous o'clock
Awake at 5.00, though i suppose technically it's 6.00! Text. Liquitex on canvas, last week. I invented a code to write in in the 1980s....
ferristeaching
Mar 28, 20212 min read
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Fire alarm and dancing in the hall
Very little teaching since the start of Lockdown, but 2 hours yesterday. Tis is an alteration, as they prefer to call it, or maybe an...
ferristeaching
Mar 27, 20212 min read
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Awful o'clock
Up at 6.00, having woken up at 4.50. What a great start to the day. Point, oil pastel and ink on Ingres paper. Well, that just about sums...
ferristeaching
Mar 26, 20212 min read
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New regimes
My workplace is in flux, but at home everything stagnates. Naked and Impaler. This is a metaphor for the existential condition, possibly...
ferristeaching
Mar 25, 20212 min read
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I'm a day early
Feeling very agitated. No sales and no prospects it seems. I have not been on anti-depressants for a goodly while, but fear the black dog...
ferristeaching
Mar 23, 20213 min read
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