Notes from Ben

Self Portrait :)

Drove son to school, listened to @talkart podcast with Tracey Emin on the way home, very interesting, went to Chinchón with Marina, listened to Sufjan Stevens ‘Fourth of July’ on the way home, so happy to be driving in the sun in Spain with my wife and the song has this lyric ‘We’re all going to die’ repeated over and over but ends (live version) ‘But I’m still alive!’ Picked up kids. Cut hair. This #everyday art thing is hard so I thought this would do for today. Sculpture. Fun. Got to be fun!

Earlier today, Chinchón….

Yesterday. A late-night portrait:

Spring Drive Up!

Everyday number 18.

Driving out of Madrid, up into the mountains, into the deep blue sky, the sun, the spring, the bright-green-flowering trees…

Spring Tree

Everyday number 18.

Seen glowing against the deep blue Madrid sky.

The First Day of Spring!

Everyday number 17.

Yes, it’s the first day of Spring, we had a picnic in the Casa de Campo park and it was outstandingly glorious.

Sunset Fields and Pools

Everyday number 16.

I saw this image by Paul Klee, Landscape with Sunset, so simple, lovely and warm. I wanted to make something similar. Like yesterday’s planet, the above image started out with coloured brush pens on paper, then photographed into the iPad to layer and play. The result makes me happy.