cove park

i was going to show you the little drawings i have done since i arrived at this INSANELY AWESOME artist's retreat.
but i can't seem to get the pictures onto this computer... so. later for that.

meanwhile.
look up cove park on the internet machine.

it is kinda like the banff school meets candle lake by yourself in the winter, but all wrapped up in scottish. it is beautiful, and peaceful, and snowy, melty, icy, slushy, great. we're somewhere on the west coast of scotland, about an hour or so north of glasgow. every year the mfa drawing and painting program is generous enough to book this place for us for one week. as a sort of wind-down before christmas, good job getting your paper done (those of us who did...), think about this term, and smile lots.

i arrived tuesday afternoon after an adventurous day of travel with kathryn - the only second year to get her 9000 word paper handed in early and make it out here... there were three peeps who had made it out monday. justin, grazyna, and daniela.

so. five!

i'm living in one of the cubes. (there are cubes and pods, and i'll show you pictures later, and you'll smile and be happy.) the cubes are solo-accomodations, and the pods are shared. one of the pods (the 'girl's' pod) has become our sort of hangout-homebase. yesterday grazyna headed home to finish her paper, and the rest of us went for a stroll down, down, down the hill to the water. beautiful. awesome. grand.

then we went our separate ways for the afternoon. i spent a couple hours drawing the drawings i was GOING to show you. in my warm cozy cube. listening to music loudly and singing, and enjoying the view. then a group happy hour with the wine our program head, glen, sent along for us. (gerry, bettina, and thomas had arrived sometime in the afternoon. now. seven of us.)

i cooked us dinner (veg madras curry and rice) and justin invented a funny drawing game, kind of like the 'first line' novel game... kind of. basically we tried to draw the sumation of someone else in the program's artistic practice, and then we all guessed who it was... hilarious.

so much goodness. so little time. i'm off now to explore some more, and maybe spend some time with the piano in the hangout-pod.