{"id":2229,"date":"2019-03-15T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2020-08-08T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:11:49","slug":"the-grand-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/the-grand-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GRAND EXHIBITION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was our penultimate day at sea, and this morning I ran my final classes entitled &#8216;The Art of Composition&#8217;, where I ran through the &#8216;Composition Checklist&#8217; and had them painting a Mediterranean scene featuring textures and a few simple figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a quick lunch, we returned to the Conference Room armed with the enormous pile of paintings that have been produced by the group over the last two and a half months\u2026 that&#8217;s a lot of paintings, I can tell you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were so many paintings that I started to think we might run out of wall space; everyone mucked-in, with two teams applying blu-tack or masking tape to the back of the paintings, and everyone else employed sticking them up on to the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2pm, the corridor looked marvellous, and for two hours, everyone mingled and showed off their work proudly to their fellow passengers\u2026 even the Captain turned up for a gander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-15_exhibition_3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At 4pm, the job of taking down the paintings began, and by 4:30pm, it was like we&#8217;d never been there at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the immortal words of Mary Poppins and Bart Simpson\u2026 my work here is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow is our final day at sea, as we draw closer to the UK. The weather has been slowly deteriorating, though, and the swell has noticeably increased. I think it&#8217;s going to be a bumpy night\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was our penultimate day at sea, and this morning I ran my final classes entitled &#8216;The Art of Composition&#8217;, where I ran through the &#8216;Composition Checklist&#8217; and had them painting a Mediterranean scene featuring textures and a few simple figures. 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