Arty things

On Wednesday we went into Canberra to vacuum the-house-that-no-one-wants-to-buy, do grocery shopping and have lunch with number one (who had just finished a lab about the science of reporting the potential for uranium enrichment accurately to the International Atomic Energy Agency ... nuclear engineering, such a roller coaster. We heard about it with great interest and zero understanding). 

Then after lunch we all went to the Cezanne to Giacometti exhibition at the National Gallery  - highlights from Museum Berggruen. It was amazing - lots of Picasso and Klee and Matisse - but also they brought in things from Australian artists with links to the works. It was more coherent than it sounds and we all had a very good time. 

We couldn't agree which one to take home with us other than it would probably be a Picasso - the other two liked 'still life on piano - cort' but I preferred 'still life with blue guitar'. We all agreed that a tall skinny lady from Giacometti would be AMAZING in the sheep pen, to surprise visitors. 

At the other end of the artistic scale, I did go to the drawing group at the local regional art group last Saturday. It was lots of fun - not just drawing but painting or pastels or pencils, whatever you wanted. I was not very good but enjoyed a couple of hours (with a glass of wine). I can't find what I did so I won't post it, but it did inspire me to actually ring an art teacher from a flyer I picked up ages ago and I joined her Tuesday afternoon lessons!

There's about five people in her backyard studio that work on their own things, but she starts beginners off with a few standard lessons, including (of course) a selection of glass bottles in charcoal. Dark and light, shapes and negative space, highlights and shadows. I had a lovely time doing it, she is a very good experienced teacher, and the results are so much better when you learn it properly!!! Who would have guessed?