{"id":484,"date":"2016-01-21T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=484"},"modified":"2016-09-13T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T11:06:56","slug":"spilt-milk-and-firing-blanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Spilt Milk and Firing Blanks.."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading a review of my friend Pete Astor’s new album ‘Spilt Milk<\/a>‘ on Fortuna Pop..sounds great I have to wait until birthday for my vinyl copy. I have the Mr Music 7″ and both covers excellent by artist Matthew Sawyer.<\/p>\n

Anyway I digress. In the review the reviewer said Pete had had a Mike Yarwood moment after years of trying out various ‘disguises’ he had returned to Richard Hell\/Velvets jangly indie popdom and it suited him. Well as I same age and had my share of ‘guises’ I beginning to feel same about painting and drawing.<\/p>\n

Confronted by a wall of blank canvases ( coincidentally the name of this blog \ud83d\ude42 I return to square one too…<\/p>\n

\"blanks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I looked out my old Degree thesis ( yes I still have it and my essays as marked by John A. Walker and Bette Spectorov). Which was on Howard Hodgkin<\/a> who my biggest influence at Hornsey. It wasn’t a great thesis ..I left it too late to do a good job and it blew my chance of a first :-(.<\/p>\n

Here a largish painting in oil on board from 1979 I think I can see\u00a0there traces of mark-making, \u00a0Hoyland and John Walker who big at time and Howard Hodgkin in use of colour and form.<\/p>\n

\"garden\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am deliberately starting slow and small this time as last year’s paintings tended in opposite direction. I also going to move away from total abstraction and painting over the ‘1977’ series from last year which just didn’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading a review of my friend Pete Astor’s new album ‘Spilt Milk‘ on Fortuna Pop..sounds great I have to wait until birthday for my vinyl copy. I have the Mr Music 7″ and both covers excellent by artist Matthew Sawyer. Anyway I digress. In the review the reviewer said Pete had had a … Continue reading “Spilt Milk and Firing Blanks..”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-painting","category-studio-diary","category-studio-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CTH4-7O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":510,"url":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=510","url_meta":{"origin":484,"position":0},"title":"Old Paint Never Dies – Moon Over The Downs 1993","author":"shaun belcher","date":"February 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"'Moon Over The Downs' oil on canvas 5' x 5' un-stretched canvas. 1993 In January 1993 things were pretty much as usual. 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