After a very windy visit to Newcastle to see a fellow artist I am back in the studio and I feel a renewed sense of purpose. It may be that in the morning I am writing 3 pages of stream of consciousness, (from Julia Cameron’s book ‘the artists way’) this really helps me to get on with what I want to do, and what is fun to do.
The integration of running into art and my daily routine is going well, I ran everyday in Tynemouth, where the wind on Thursday night actually pushed me up the hill I chose to train on. I am reading ‘Born to Run’ by Christopher McDougall which is very interesting as it is concerned not only with running as a way of life but acknowledges that the joy of running is the real secret. We are just that, born to run.
Today I tried running and drawing in Southwark park. I circled a drinking fountain and the bandstand. A regular almost circular structure is easier to draw as you move, but your perspective and the light alter as well. This makes the drawing move along cubist ideas of seeing an object from all angles. Some crows were harder to capture as they moved. They accepted me as a moving object better than when I have tried to draw them standing still.
