cartoons today are so rubbish...

For'm's meeting on the 20th Nov took place amongst the ArtworksMK xmas show in the gallery. The nights getting darker and colder, a bit of escapism into the world of animation was necessary. To give us a nice, broad range of film choice to be explored during our future screenings (watch this space) we started by looking at 3 films- all very different but all delectable examples of storytelling at it's best...

'Black Orpheus' a film by Marcel Camus

'Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends' a film by Jasmine Dellal

and the masterpiece of choice 'BelleVille Rendezvous' a film by Sylvain Chomet

wonders of wood...

Tuesday the 13th Nov introduced the group to working with greenwood in our wood workshop. using collected branches from the site, we used craft knives, a hand axe and....vegetable peelers to whittle our branches into teeny tiny totem poles.
After all agreeing the power of the doodle was mighty, we got out the paints and adorned our wood whilst musing over life's little details - finding common ground over many a thing...

as everybody's subconscious began to take over, we talked about Yayoi Kusama and her influence on contemporary culture

Totem poles and tribes...

no doubt this influenced our painting and prompted many an afterthought on mark making... (click on the images for links)

our final result coming soon.....

a-clay-zing!

check out this pottery lottery (!)

a few things.....Something and Son

hop over to Russia

keep shtum

turning drawings into sound!?

and finally...