Last nights Launch event ArtUK and doing things that we just need to do.

 So last night, I took Kite along with me to the Launch event of "Connecting Young People to the Art they own" hosted by artUk. We didn't know what to expect so went straight from the studio (on reflection, next time we'll get changed and will also know to expect food on arrival - we'd been to the kebab shop and were totally not expecting canapés.. in fact we weren't expecting posh.. it was posh. )

Nice to see people from across the arts and there was a great talk by Jock McFayden, who'd moved to Newcastle under lyme in his late teens and gone to Newcastle School of Art (I'd always wanted to go there..and I realise now how different it probably was to how art is taught now.)

This is a sneaky pic that Brad Sweeting took.. I'd considered taking photos but as no one else seemed to be, chickened out.. that'll teach me.. I'll just take the pics next time :)

Set up a croK.collective gmail profile with Kite. Trying to get this as collaborative as possible so its a shared mailbox effectively and next on the list is the Insta.

Kite had been speaking about a family member who is pragmatic in their business approach. This person just starts, and when they need something, they get that thing, when they need to do something, they just do it, so we're doing that. We'll make a mess, and mistakes and some things won't lead anywhere but we'll be doing .. so we'll be progressing. 

Kite is really interested in the Short Supply Open Call MADE IT.. I'd seen this too but not had the headspace to fully look at it, so in the interests of just cracking on, I printing all the info out for us, so that we could properly digest what we needed to do, and set up the gmail so that we could apply as a collective.

PD has had to withdraw from the last couple of exhibitions and we feel our wings are a little clipped in terms of how to progress the art collective with her.  She's expressed an interest in pursuing croK. in evenings and weekends but we're keen to keep a work life balance and try and preserve our weekends and evenings so are pushing forwards as we can throughout the week. Dropped her a message just to keep her in the loop with what we're doing. 

I'm also considering how to approach the next painting...

This is a really rough sketch but I'm wondering if I don't just run with a lot of artist licence /  freedom