A quick review of my achievements and discoveries (art related or not) for the quarter allows me to acknowledge my achievements, understand where I still need work, and remember some of the new and exciting things I may have seen or done outside of the studio.
This is not intended to be an exhaustively detailed examination of all that has passed, but more an easily digestible bullet point record.
Quarter 3 – 2020
While COVID-19 is still something effecting all of our lives, I’m very thankful to be living here in South Australia where things still seem to be under reasonable control.
Working from home (my day job that is) in my studio all day has tempered my longing to spend more time in there in the evenings working on art projects so I have taken a relatively low energy approach to things while we are in this period. I’m looking to use the time until the end of the year as more rest, recuperate and plan for 2021, putting 2020 in the ‘just one of those years’ baskets. Meanwhile…
Art Achievements
- Kept up my regular output by scheduling a gouache portrait study for every second Friday on my day off from my day job.
Books & Podcasts
- Completed reading Consider Phleba & Player of Games by Iain M Banks, Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L Trump & Disloyal by Michael Cohen (yes, slightly obsessed with the chaos surrounding the Trump presidency as the US heads towards their elections)
- Began reading Out of the Silent Planet by C.S Lewis & The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Movies & Television
- Went and saw Tenet at the cinema which I thoroughly enjoyed although a bit of a mind bender
- Following on with my recent morbid fascination with US politics, I’ve been an avid watcher of Planet America
