Both of these are from my own photos. The first has been abstracted by layering and scraping, thereby revealing evidence of the earlier painting, which contributes both colour and texture. Clearly very different in style, I made these alongside each … Continue reading Stylised shrubs and misty, foggy river bank
Unfortunately, I can’t remember which ones! In this series, I’m painting over old pieces that no longer have relevance and so they come with their own underpainting. This is another 6×8″ canvas. I’ve done a lot of finger-blending with this … Continue reading Fields at Beeding
I’m not sure why I couldn’t find the early-stage iterations yesterday, but here is one of them. It may be another example of my tendency to skip over the more painterly stages and go straight on to the dramatic. That … Continue reading Adur river bank – view across the fields
This is probably the smallest canvas I’ve ever painted, and I can say for certain that I’ll never paint anything this size again! Water-soluble oil paints on a 4×6″ canvas. The image, which is wholly in my head, probably originates … Continue reading Clouded Moon
The first first was impulse-buying a set of water-soluble oil paints, the second was watching past seasons of Landscape Artist of the Year (2017 and 2018) again, this time, looking at process and techniques. It had occurred to me that … Continue reading Some firsts for me this week
Anyone with half an eye on the political goings on in the US will know what this means. It emerged without intention from some experiments with sound and film construction and said its piece. The main driver for it had been some issues with copyright relating to the use of a music track via Epidemic Sound that I am still hoping I can use with an AR overlay to a painting that will be in a forthcoming book. I had the composer’s permission to use it but needed to check with the hosting platform. Their questions seem to assume that … Continue reading ‘Drums of a Dying Nation’
After a fashion. My year/level group, to whom I showed the latest iteration of the Frog Fall book and asked for thoughts about the cover, unanimously said the frogs needed to be hand-painted and not digitally rendered. It was hard … Continue reading Diamond Frog Day
28th July 2025 For an account of the physical, see The By-Any-Other-Name Virus Story. This is a layer cake of white acrylic paint, strips and pieces of tracing paper, yellow, red and blue dilute paint, more tracing paper pieces, water, … Continue reading From digital to physical
Thinking of my previous post in which I described the effect of an unnamed virus on my cognitive functioning and wondering how to give some kind of visual representation to it, I turned to Rebelle7, a digital painting app. This … Continue reading Representing an hallucination
The By-Any-Other-Name Virus Story With no idea how she got there, or in fact, how anyone could get there, Maggie concluded she was in an Art House film. Or she did later when it became possible to ask the question, when curiosity returned to help separate herself a little from the scene. Less a key player with no insight and more an observer looking through blurry perspex. Either way, the paint of the cupboard was drifting slowly downwards, picking up some of the blue and red of the person next to it. Tonally congruent, the pigment became dilute, going from … Continue reading The By-Any-Other-Name Virus Story
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