{"id":2048,"date":"2020-05-23T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2020-05-23T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:35:13","slug":"lockdown-five-a-continuing-if-erratic-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/23\/lockdown-five-a-continuing-if-erratic-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Five (a continuing, if erratic, saga)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A bit of a mixed couple of weeks (12 days as I&#8217;m writing) doing a variety of different things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lots of gardening, lots of preparation for a series of small sculptures \u2013 nothing to show there yet \u2013 drawing, painting and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gallery_box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/gallery\/draw-every-day-in-may-2020\/\" title=\"Draw Every Day in May 2020\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=&quot;120&quot; height=&quot;80&quot; style=\"width:120px; height:80px; border-width: 10px; border-color:#F1F1F1;border: 10px solid #F1F1F1\" alt=\"Draw Every Day in May 2020\" title=\"Draw Every Day in May 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2210.png?resize=120%2C80&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gallery_detail_box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gllr_detail_title\">Draw Every Day in May 2020<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gllr_detail_excerpt\">Looking through Instagram, which I just rejoined, I came across #draweverydayinmay2020 run by ...<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/gallery\/draw-every-day-in-may-2020\/\">See photo \u00bb<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery_detail_box -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gllr_clear\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery_box -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Looking through Instagram, which I just rejoined, I came across #draweverydayinmay2020 run by &#8216;Marigold the Maker&#8217; under the auspices of The Big Draw. Part of it is to use the additional hashtag #stillpointsketchingchallenge and place some creative limitations on your daily sketching. I decided to use Autodesk Sketchbook to produce all the drawings on my iPad, work between 9:00 am and 10:00 am each day and remain in my seat at the kitchen table.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2047\" style=\"width: 723px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2047\" data-attachment-id=\"2047\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/23\/lockdown-five-a-continuing-if-erratic-saga\/lemons\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?fit=713%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"713,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 4000D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1589558099&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lemons\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Lemons and Glasses&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Teaching myself to paint&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?fit=584%2C389&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2047\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?resize=584%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"painting of lemons \" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?w=713&amp;ssl=1 713w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lemons.jpg?resize=120%2C80&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teaching myself to paint<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I also bought myself some boards, 5mm ply 25 cm square, to do some small paintings, just to keep my hand in. These lemons were started the same day I drew the two in the dish in the gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I also applied for the Yorkshire Sculpture International Network 2020, which is a set of online meetings fortnightly from June until October where <i>\u201c<\/i><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Each of the participating artists will be invited to contribute to developing the content of the network\u2019s programme and to the research and development for the next Yorkshire Sculpture International festival. This programme will enable us to ensure we are building the future artists\u2019 professional development in the most useful way for artists.\u201d <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I should find out if I&#8217;m successful next week, I can&#8217;t imagine there will be many people my age applying.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/139889688@N03\/49849899813\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ArtBomb Video\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2052\" style=\"width: 841px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2052\" data-attachment-id=\"2052\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/23\/lockdown-five-a-continuing-if-erratic-saga\/capture\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture.jpg?fit=831%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"831,504\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Ian Latham&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1590247648&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Art Bomb Video&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Art Bomb Video&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture.jpg?fit=584%2C354&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2052\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture.jpg?resize=584%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Flickr Video\" width=\"584\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture.jpg?w=831&amp;ssl=1 831w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Capture.jpg?resize=495%2C300&amp;ssl=1 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Bomb Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting this again to remind myself, the arts group I did this with has done a zoom meeting with all the videos played, I wasn&#8217;t invited (or I missed the email?) I know it&#8217;s not great but it would have been nice to be asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a mixed couple of weeks (12 days as I&#8217;m writing) doing a variety of different things. Lots of gardening, lots of preparation for a series of small sculptures \u2013 nothing to show there yet \u2013 drawing, painting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/gallery\/draw-every-day-in-may-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,15,9,30,51,19,7,37,32,35,34],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-creative","tag-drawing","tag-garden","tag-lockdown","tag-new","tag-painting","tag-studio","tag-thinking","tag-wip","tag-workinprogress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2me3G-x2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}