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Anyone run Parallels?
My work Mac mini has started to burn up when parallels is working, its been running perfectly until the last couple of days. Maybe its Windows causing the issue, usually Id hand it off to someone who knows what they are doing in the office, but CoVid.

Im definitely finding this. Although my 'at pace' is mediocre to slow seeing what others are doing.

I tried upping the distance yesterday, not by much but went for 10km from 7km. Im really struggling with pacing, holding such a slow rhythm makes the actual running very uncomfortable, but running at a comfortable pace means i burn out around 6.5km I basically run/walk the rest. Eventually completed the loop in 58min. Can anyone recommend any exercises or mental tricks to help settle into longer runs? Its a bit mad, at high school I used to do well at cross country by basically outlasting the other kids. Not any more.

Running is hard, but I've started to enjoy my 5km loop. And the increase to 20km a week has made me feel a bit better about how little actual exercise lock down lets me do. Once I get the 10km down, I will be on a rhythm of 5km,7km,10km every week. As soon as that is comfortable I will add in a session of hill sprints at the end of the 5km.

I used to love this.

This is great, at uni we had a short seminar on some aspects of colour theory, most of which went straight over my head. I tended towards using monochrome with a highlight colour usually a warm orange, saving myself from having to think properly about colour.

My ink of choice is the platinum carbon ink.
I usually draw with a fountain pen and this stuff is the business, all other inks now look like weak grey, with no depth. Its also archival, so the blackness should outlive the paper i scribble on. Don't use in a regular pen as it will clog and the usual solvents won't clear it.

I also like rotring ink and pens.

or Black 2.0?

I love a pure indigo and I understand the lesson that it is unlikely that the colour straight from the tube will be what you need, and it encourages proper observation and engagement with your medium. But I do a whole host of un painterly things when I paint. As well as having radio/telly on in the background, Ill often mix the paint on the canvas/paper/board, use white and black straight up no mixing. Scratch it with the metal bit of the brush, use my finger to flatten, get bored and ignore the painting. And sometimes make it rubbish on purpose for my own amusement.

But then again, real painters are real people too, and are unlikely to be the romanticised vision that is ascribed to them. I bet Titian used a cheeky bit of black when he wanted to, I know Frida Kahlo did.

I had no Idea about this. From my experience with water colour, whites and greys are a problem. They destroy the translucency that is crucial to how watercolour works. But the black thing is new to me, I love a strong black as you can probably see from a bunch of my sketches up thread.

Im intrigued now, so going to have to read about it. (but in general principle Im in favour of people making images however they wish.)

Whats wrong with Payne's Gray?

Is this some art circle knowledge that's secret from us common folk?

I shall try to banana at lunch/this evening.

Why are people so good at Bananas?

Just had a little notification from apple prompting me to buy another book as I had recently read...
Turns out on my kindle I had smashed through the entire rivers of london series in the last 2 weeks, an Ian M Banks, and a collection of Asimov short stories.
I hadn't given it any thought but that alongside the physical books I've been reading takes me back to how I used to read when I was at high school.

I used to fit reading as my main activity between sport and eating, to the point the school librarian used to leave a little pile of books to one side for me every friday and monday. Turns out all the projects I thought Id do in lockdown have been ignored, I spend almost all my time reading again. Its goingto be a wrench returning to real life.

Finally got my times trending down rather than up. Lockdown has slaughtered my exercise time, so i have been getting less and less fit, but with effort and 4 * 5km a week I've stopped slowing down and may even be speeding back up, dipped back under the 5min a km.

I think the difference is the podcasts which distract me enough from running. Maybe I should record what i listen too along side the time, see if better podcasts make me run faster?

Im tired thinking about that.

With a suitable font and crop this is a fleet foxes album cover

theres a bit of james Acaster in your drawing.

These are Rad.
really free, post more as you do them.

Tough subject that. Very traditional, however, to sketch from masters

8 min attempt

Cheers.
Self portraits are brutal, really staring at yourself is horrible. Im not a fan of looking in a mirror at the best of times. Covid Beard looking more neck based than I would happily have in public...

Unfinished self portrait, definitely more than 10 minutes. I never got around to the week 1 challenge so thought I'd post this.

Eventually I'll finish it but I got bored/tired.

I haven't but I'm sure I have some somewhere, ill give it a go cheers

That's a top suggestion, will try until i go for some new headphones. I hoard kit so have at least one spare ear warmer thing.

I'm too far behind, I'll never get all the reps in. The lock down has really put a dent in my beer drinking.

Failed in Week 5 of the hundred push ups thing. the step up in reps is too much, back to week 4... again