Friday 3 February 2012

Inspiration

Currently listening to:
The Rip Tide (album) - Beirut
Midnight City - M83
The Last Unicorn - Passenger
Simple Song - The Shins
Gabriel (feat. Valentina) - Joe Goddard
No Light, No Light - Florence and the Machine
The Wolves - Ben Howard
Video Games - Lana Del Rey
Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) - Gotye

Currently reading:
The Snowman - Jo Nesbo
Habibi - Craig Thompson
Counterfeit Gods - Tim Keller
Cosmology - Peter Coles
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks
(mm all 6 at once, not v effective. need to stop reading all of them in bits)

DVDs to watch:
Sherlock series 1
The Secret World of Arrietty
What Lies Beneath
Perfect Sense

Cinema/to rent:
The Woman in Black
Another Earth
Life In a Day
Womb
Chronicle
most things on iTunes movie trailers

Also want to do something inspired by Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World (none of my favourite pieces are online to put here unfortunately.. but something grey and brown inky landscapey)


Graham Sutherland, Dark Hill - Landscape with Hedges and Fields, 1940 (watercolour, gouache on paper), 48.9 cm x 69.8 cm. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery © Estate of Graham Sutherland

2 comments:

Drawing Pad said...

Oh I think that Sutherland is pretty good. Have you seen the show at Modern Art Oxford?

katie said...

yeah i do like that one too - but it isn't one of my favourites... and yes I did see the show, it was brilliant!