Blog – Page 7 – Hatchery Artists

Published On - 25 January 2021

Everything is Art and Art is Everything

I have been waylaid by a dream! It has altered my way of thinking about me and about my practice. Without all the boring details, I was, fluidly, grandmother, mother, daughter and, strangely, the family dog but not the dog we had. I was communicated with by a bird when myself, roughly as I am [&he...

Published On - 22 January 2021

Mary Hayes Mary Hayes

What influences you as an artist?

I made my choices. SOOOOO hard. I chose items from my life that I still own. They all related to art and design but with one exception were not fine art. My choices included a few from 1930s with mainly German influences and some related to modern technology. Some clever people chose paintings...

Published On - 19 January 2021

Mik Hobson Mik Hobson

recording

Session with Zoom H6 field recorder. On the premises for some time but finally got around to having a go. Difficulty In doing a overdub hopefully sorted for next time with a YouTube lesson. Pleased with general sound quality of voice and guitar through headphones. Got several pointers for fu...

Published On - 17 January 2021

Mik Hobson Mik Hobson

chords 2

‍Another interesting one is Strange Brew featuring E7 ♯9 (the so called Hendrix chord) followed by (2 frets down) D7 ♯9. Also thanks to Yves for re igniting my interest in Let it Be. 4 straight forward chords, I IV V and vi, fun to play in as many different keys as poss.‏...

Published On - 17 January 2021

Mik Hobson Mik Hobson

blogs

Ha. That was fun trying out colours and features. Had to be told what a blog was and enjoyed posting that last one. Is it possible to add fonts so that I can get music symbols? Looks like you can paste from Word at least. ♭♮♯½ ...

Published On - 17 January 2021

Mik Hobson Mik Hobson

Chords

Been working on unusual chords and chord runs (including unusual chords) from various songs. (The chords are unusual to me, anyway!) They require great left-hand precision and the “buying of a micro-second” (due to unfamiliarity) sometimes while the chord change is effected. Interesting ...

Published On - 17 January 2021

Chris Wright Dr Chris A Wright

making of the New Old World

It has been a bit of a slog lately but woke up yesterday with new thoughts. I did some reading of old friends, books that I constantly refer to, and took my camera for a walk. I played on my drawing tablet after much messing about trying to get it to work. Used the free […]...

Published On - 16 January 2021

Helen Helen Stevenson

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Published On - 13 January 2021

Mik Hobson Mik Hobson

Lyric

You can travel to the ends of the earth Get religion and have a rebirth But where ever you go You just have to know You can’t get away from yourself...

Published On - 13 January 2021

Mary Hayes Mary Hayes

Making Choices

So excited to be starting a print course which has been paid for by the Art Bursary in Hatchery 2! I met the other members of the group online this week and was asked to show three examples of my work. I only had images on the website so I showed the ones I include […]...