The blue-arsed-fly-styled running around has continued into this week
I thought last week was busy until I hit this week
and it has been taken to a whole new level
when you add the need to film a lesson for Soul Food 2015 into the mix
To call myself a technological black hole of nightmare proportions
would actually be underplaying my ability to make cameras lose photos,
new fancy schmancy rice cookers to implode and computers freeze
but I pushed all this aside and gamely jumped into the whole thing
with uncharacteristic enthusiasm and admit that I learned some gems along the way
I learned that if you invite one chin to the party then all the others turn up as well
It is most disappointing to see them all there
I learned that half arsery and not planning leads to having to move the camera and set up and take things down a million times
I learned that even attempting to be "normal" and not muck up and play the fool is really really hard, and is totally exhausting
not to mention that armpits shots happen more often than you would think
and they are not my best angle
It is also inevitable that just as you get to the end of a great take
you will do one of the following
spill tea
sneeze
have the back door neighbour come out and yell at the kids
or have the sort of hot flash that has you doing a credible impression
of an ice sculpture in the Sahara
but all in all it came together
and I learned that editing is not actually impossible
that you can make something out of nothing
and that the whole thing was actually fun... like lots of fun
so much fun that I decided to also try to immortalise the camera I used
and while I actually kind of prefer the sketch stage above to the finished piece
I don't hate the finished sketch by any stretch
So filming done, I used the extraordinary amount of time it takes to upload the things
and painted up the blue arsed fly, finished off last week's Assam tin
and got started on some of the commissions on my desk
so all in all quite busy, some may even say gloriously so
happy painting all...xx