Photo of the week: Christ Church Meadow Walk, Oxford

In this meadow in 1784, James Sadler, a local pastry chef and chemist completed the first ascent in a balloon by an Englishman. He ascended to about 3600 feet.

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Bonus photo of the week: Newborough Forest, Anglesey

Pines where the forest meets the beach near Ynys Llanddwyn

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Bonus Photos of the Week: Lake District Panoramas

I took these with my phone.

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Bonus Photo of the Week: Portrait of my father (Gum Bichromate Print)

Gum bichromate is a simple and old photographic process, but it can be tricky.

It works by the same process that old stickers that have been exposed to sunlight get hard to remove. You can suspend whatever pigment you like in the gum arabic solution.

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Bonus photo of the week: Hartland Quay

The last bit of daylight over a former Harbour that dated back to the time of Henry VIII. A rugged stretch of the north Devon coast.

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Bonus photo of the week: Mont Lachat, France

I currently cannot ship any of my work or sell anything in person. This is a great opportunity for me to work a new model of Artworking for the time being. I have taken my shop down temporarily. I’ll put it back up when I have something I can actually sell again. I have some ideas.

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Bonus photo of the week: The Sea Defenses, Chesil Beach

I took this with a pinhole camera on 35mm colour negative film. These monumental defenses protect the village of Fortuneswell.

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Photo of the week: Tanzania

If there were a Michelin guide for extinct volcanoes, the Ngorongoro crater in northern Tanzania would get three stars.

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The forgotten tasks

The forgotten tasks are the things you spend your days on and then at the end of the week you ask yourself: “what did I do this week?” And you can’t remember.

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Allow your brain to do the hard work for you

Your brain is way smarter than you.

It can predict all sorts of complex motions. You can complete familiar tasks with your eyes closed. You can get something done without even noticing. If you learn to juggle you don’t even have to look at your hands. It just happens.

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Don't use the four stage strategy!

The Four Stage Strategy, as explained in the first episode of Yes, Prime Minister is the following:

In stage one we say “nothing is going to happen”

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Fingerpainting on my iPad Mini (video)

Here is a video of the sketch I posted a few days ago:

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Perceived Rules (part 2)

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An iPad Sketch (of an apple, what else?)

Another Monday morning sketching on the iPad. I spent 10 minutes on this one and didn’t use the Apple pencil. I also recorded the process. Look out for a video of this sketch soon.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 16, 2020sketch, iPadComment

Photo of the week: Green Park, London

You could take a shortcut through Green Park to get between Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace or perhaps between the Royal Air Force Club and the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

I was walking from the South Bank to catch a bus.

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Warm up (video)

I spent the day gardening.

Here is a quick video announcing some plans for my YouTube channel Lucas Unofficial. The audio and video quality aren’t great. The editing is imprecise. I did it on my phone. That’s okay. It’s a warm up.

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Good Spirit

It is a far more enriching experience to bake and eat something homemade than to buy and eat something even if the bought item is just as good or better.

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50 days of blogging: here is what I think

It feels as though I just started this 100 day blogging challenge, but I’m halfway through.

Some thoughts on 50 posts:

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Sketching The New Yorker

When I don’t know what to draw, I flip through The New Yorker and use the images as references for practice. Here are a couple of my sketches from photographs in the March 2nd issue.

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Warming Up

Before any sporting event, you will see players warming up. They are following some easy routine, swinging their arms to get the blood flowing. They will be jogging, shooting some layups, taking a few easy swings with the bat or club - whatever makes sense for their sport.

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