November 2018 – Creativity Everyday

More baubles

Posted on 30 November, 2018 by David Meredith

In Cork. Travelled here today. Examining tomorrow and then back up to Dublin. It’s late and I’m tired but I brought a pad and some watercolour pencils. Still trying to convey the impression of Christmas tree branches. Attempted a few...Read More

I’m a bit knackered

Posted on 29 November, 2018 by David Meredith

I've examined speech and drama candidates two days in a row now and I'm quite tired from the sustained concentration required. I had some plans to experiment with trees and baubles this evening. I did a few bits and pieces...Read More

More tea?

Posted on 29 November, 201829 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Just to keep the ball rolling. My tea-shirt ... (not an original idea: saw it on Pinterest) Wild flowers ... (too many leaves and a very bland background: I'll have another go at this idea)

Hauntings Soldier: ekphrasis

Posted on 25 November, 201826 November, 2018 by David Meredith

We were at a book launch during the week. The Loneliness of the Sasquatch by Amanda Bell, a friend of Christine's. It's a translation of a work written in Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. Actually, it's more than a translation. Amanda...Read More

Finished

Posted on 25 November, 2018 by David Meredith

I don't often finish things. You know, actually bring them to completion. This is an exception.

Dig Deep

Posted on 21 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Sometime in 1984, we were in Uxbridge, in north west London. The miners' strike was in full swing and some people were collecting money to support miners' families. The slogan on the collection tins was was Dig Deep for the...Read More

Sonnet XVII

Posted on 20 November, 201822 November, 2018 by David Meredith

This is my favourite love poem. https://vimeo.com/299621427 By the way, this is the luscious thing I referred to a little while back. I did the art work about five times and the voice recording about 25 times until...Read More

Giotár eile

Posted on 20 November, 2018 by David Meredith

I'm calling it an expressionist one, so let's not count the strings! And it's on a teabag so that's got to be pretty cool.

Guitar on a teabag

Posted on 18 November, 201818 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Speaks for itself really ... Challenging, to be honest, but I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out.

Love After Love

Posted on 18 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Eilis, a psychotherapist I've been going to for a while, told me about a poem by Derek Walcott called Love After Love. In short, it's about meeting one's self and, I suppose, accepting one's self, warts, quirks and faults, as...Read More

It IS actually all about me

Posted on 17 November, 201818 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Messing with portraits and a new app. I'm working on an idea for the treatment of a poem and I want to incorporate a slow dissolve from one picture to another. On the way to the supermarket this morning I...Read More

This was no ordinary marriage breakup …

Posted on 15 November, 2018 by David Meredith

I was 10 years old. It was 1970. The end of a busy summer spent mostly on stage in the Eblana Theatre under Busaras, in a popular play called It's a Two-Foot Six Inch Above the Ground World. The first...Read More

Knifey Spoony

Posted on 13 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Started a new wood project today. [metaslider id=1058] The day the young lad Edward received his scholarship certificate in UCD. https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-knifey-spooney-australia-bart-simpson-crocodile-dundee-gif-12120887