V chatě pana Tichého se tento týden natáčí tři horory, spolupráce UTB a JAMU.
Short horror movie coming soon!
Glasgow Necropolis
You should go there during night, it is such an atmospheric place. You have to come around huge hospital and cathedral which is connected by a bridge to another hill which is occupied by this old cemetery. The bridge seems like a spiritual way to "another world". It was really dark, I was trying make some photos, coming soon!
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Jac van Steen (now conducting Prague Symphony Orchestra)
Martinů: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Dvořák: Concerto for violin in A minor
Bartók: Concerto for orchestra
It was a shame that Saint Devis Hall wasn't full, the reason is that neither one of these big composers doesn't have much fame over Britain.
Vera Chytilova
This week famous Czech director Vera Chytilova passed over. She started working during sixties, belonging to The Czech New wave. Her movies have wonderful visual image. Watch Sedmikrásky (The Daisies) from 1966.
Photos
I couldn't wait for the photos, Cardiff - London
This evening entertainment
Paul Klee in Tate
One of the the interwar artists whose 17 art peaces were included in "Degenerated Art Exhibition", but at that time he was already in Bern. Paul Klee was admired by Germans because his abstraction and by French because his surrealism. In this exhibition you can see both sides of his work. He worked mainly in small scales, very detailed watercolored drawings. His surrealistic work remind me in line Miró and sometimes Picasso in solid color spaces. I am very much into his surreal work like "Exotic River Landscape" (1921) - find a pianist!, but even thou some of abstract drawing are very inspirational, like Steps which I have't found picture of - there are abstraction stripes, however they are lazily running into perspective point somewhere out of canvas - this one was for me masterpiece of putting together abstraction and real ruled word. The good moment of exhibition is the final black wall as Klee used to have in his studio to see final works. Is it strange, the background color which he counted on was black, but all his work is used to exhibited in white spaces.
Tony Chance workshop
This week is headed by storyboard artist and baroque lover Tony Chance. First day we get through rendering 2 point perspective house by using color of the paper as a midtone (the design of that house was made by Stuart Kearns for Sleepy Hollow).
Second day was dedicated to live drawing. Most of the time were really fast figure, it was graduating - starting 20 minutes the first one, than five, which is still quite enough for quick sketch, but then come two minutes, one and last half minute. It was really funny and useful, because since I am in Wales I haven't been doing live drawing.
Tony Chance
This week there is a good chance to get into secrets of storyboarding. Tony Chance is heading lessons this week. He is well known storyboard artist. He worked in productions like American Beauty, Mission: Impossible, Bridget Jones or 102 Dalmatians. Have a look to his pencil storyboards, they are clearly well arranged. For me, the most impressive part of his work are colored concept visuals. I can spend hours watching them or his watercolored illustration or the oil paintings.
www.tonychance.co.uk
New camera
During this weekend, I have bought new camera (new for me) from some magic seller in Cardiff second hand market. When I was looking for manual, because some components were missing, I have found this asian meditation manual. It reflects my feelings about exploring new toy!
First post
I have just set up this web page, I haven't started my blog yet, all the web is in progress. However, lets help with sharing at least this short message from Ukraine nowadays.