I spent part of the day recording the choral arrangement for Live Forever for Gina's November support concert with Devendra Banhart at the Union Chapel. It's quite close to the recorded arrangement, but with added call-and-response, which I think will look good.
When my voice wore out (I'm singing 8 parts), I did a little bit more of the cover for Willie G's Synthecosse project. I'm not sure which song is going to be the A-side so I can't quite finish it. It was visually unbalanced so I'm working on balancing it up a bit; I flipped it, and it leans to the right. More heft to the left, dear.
Excellent opportunity to laze about and watch Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles on BBC1, and eat pistachio nuts and mince pies. Tomorrow, life drawing (if I get there). Will I be brave enough to do colour like two weeks ago? It depends on the length of the pose. Last week's longest pose was 25 minutes and shortest was 30 seconds; there were many changes in a two and a half hour session and I felt sorry for the model. It may be that I need to go to a class at another place to draw at a slower pace, but that's OK. Monday evenings are intense and therapeutic- and surprisingly physical. Standing up for such a long time, stretching and looking at a huge sheet of paper is not normal behaviour. It's wonderful to be able to work big. My drawings of working people are A4 sized and each one is done in an hour, listening to Riley and Coe's BBC6 show. I've got larger paper at home I could work on and eventually I'll get round to that too, merging the scale of the life drawings with the subject matter of the photo-based ones. A plan!
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