S4: portrait methods – finding a way

Spending 4 days focused on a version of the atelier method for painting portraits gave me an opportunity to work in a way I don’t normally. It was hard to follow the method and not revert to my more intuitive and less organised approach. I felt that I needed a more systematic approach to painting… Continue reading S4: portrait methods – finding a way

Intro: What’s folk horror?

Folk Horror is a mise-en-scene deployed by games as means of critiquing the normative, the pastoral and the familiar, focused ofen on the otherness of the landscape, or features within it the display entropy/and or the return of features showing what was once human dominion return to ‘nature’. Folk Horror’s staples are sacrifice, ritual, myth… Continue reading Intro: What’s folk horror?