In the Rambles

Following threads tonight; wondering what I did before the internet allowed me to do so. Drew some doodles of ladies with antlers and couldn't get the antlers right - searched 'moose' and 'reindeer'. Remembered that I was wondering about the great portrait of Hemingway that I had in my head because Mary C. C. had mentioned him in her gig the other night - searched and found the Karsh picture of him in his huge chunky jumper. Remembered how good Karsh was and couldn't believe I'd forgotten about him; looked at a lot of Karsh pictures. Remembered Georgia O'Keefe because of Karsh's fantastic pictures of her; looked at her paintings and images of the artist herself. Drew some more sketches of ladies with antlers and bit thick jumpers, also some with bunny ears and snowflakes; I'm thinking wintry box canvases here. Drew some knitted fish as I have a wee bit of a thing for them at the moment. Discussed the possibility of making wooden fish with knitted jumpers. Listened to Elton John on the Electric Proms and found one of my favourite but forgotten angel quotes:

"You tell me there's an angel in your tree,

Did he say he'd come to call on me?" (Burn down the Mission)

Doodled more patterns for potential use in Bun Hanzo painting which is going well, although amidst all my ramblings tonight I didn't do any actual work on the board, just ideas of which road to head down with it. Looking at really chunky patterns of flowers, seventies wallpaper mixed with Japanese flowers and wave patterns.

Had a great dinner despite the fact that some of the crucial ingredients were found to be past their prime ie: a stir fry mix in the bottom of the fridge had turned to mush. Tricky when planning a stir fry. This is when it is handy to have a chef in the house - had a great wee braised rice thing instead with our yummy curried pork burgers, while listening to Elton and looking up stuff on the laptop...

Got 'Violent Cop' in the post, the directorial debut of Beat Takeshi, whose film 'Zatoichi' triggered the whole painting I am now playing with.