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This will be the last batch post
Day 83 tomorrow and this is the 82nd post. Will have to sort through more folders later. Help. Ironic title perhaps. This is an automatic...
ferristeaching
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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Non-essential shops
My bespoke framer will not be open at the moment, so at least I'm not spending vast amounts to prepare 'Shibboleth' for exhibition...
ferristeaching
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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Lot of waffle
I usually have the Beeb Breakfast show on the PC as I type. It is all blather. Me and Bear. I had the teddy specially made, but fear it...
ferristeaching
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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Awake at 5.15!
It's not unusual. Just wish it wasn't so hard to get back to sleep! Holy Moses. One of those old-fashioned phrases. Michelangelo bursting...
ferristeaching
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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Washing on
Good that my appliances are working, though the fridge-freezer was a leftover from the previous tenant, stored in the garage whe we took...
ferristeaching
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Can't think of any catchy titles
It was sunny, but now it's overcast and they say there may be snow in the West. Skin. The usual media mix. This time it's Marsyas and...
ferristeaching
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Nap now?
I so need it. Not a good start to the week, I can tell you! Thicket, oil pastel and ink on A4 pastel paper. James Blunt on Prime. Might...
ferristeaching
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Nap this afternoon
I'll need it Yesterday went well: I got a free glass brick to work on! Grattage over calendar photo. I hate to admit it, but an...
ferristeaching
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Trees in bud
I look out over a copse and a lumber yard. One is in flux, the other Groundhog-like. St Eustace. Mixed media on A4 Ingres paper. The...
ferristeaching
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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The sun has come out
Before Lockdown it didn't bother me so much, but it does help! Trick Cyclist. Acrylic on A4 carboard. From the 1980s. If I had a brain...
ferristeaching
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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Pitch dark outside
Which is just a little better reporting that it is thus within. After Hilton. Roger, that is. I should explain the melancholy sub-heading...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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I know something good is going to happen
Or so the song claims. I won't hold my breath. None of you should either! Small Green Fen. I used the frame from an old lubricious...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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3037 posts on Instagram
Not sure I believe it, and not sure what I think about the pointlessness of it all? A Pretty Piece of Flesh. Maybe called it that because...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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Shibboleth
This is the first of the sketches I will show you. It is painted on a piece of cardboard from a pizza - I love pizza. This is more like a...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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Opened an Easter egg already
In my defence: there was very little other chocolate in the house! getting the paint to blur and smudge depends on relative density. It...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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It feels like the task of Sisyphus
It's the 80th day of the year and I have only done 66 posts. At the moment this assemblage of canvas stretchers is to be called...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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When I get to 100...
..I may start to cull earlier posts. We'll see. At the mo it's not an issue. I have made a fair few little sculptures, though a fair...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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The sun's gone in!
Got up to brightness sifting through the blinds and curtains, but not any more. Bullfighting, collaged acrylic and enamel mounted on...
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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Make myself do it!
No interaction here, so the question: how long before I delete a post? doesn't apply. The Rape of Europa. Old photos plus enamel spots....
ferristeaching
Mar 21, 20211 min read
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Next door has been sold
Reminds me of the flux of everything in the universe. Obscurely! Three More Fates. I started using enamel simply because I wanted a paint...
ferristeaching
Mar 20, 20211 min read
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