Category: OCA
“Perch”
What a difference a firm line makes. This is a Zebra pen that makes a very fine line on, it seems, almost anything. Thank you, OJHillbilly. © Suzanne Conboy-Hill 2025 Continue reading “Perch”
“Build it and they will come”
6th November, 2025. A lucky misquote of the original, which suggested that building it would attract unspecified kinds of ‘he’, and that isn’t what you want in a back garden. This building involves ponds, which I put in not long … Continue reading “Build it and they will come”
Diamond Frog Day
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
From digital to physical
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
Ted Talk
15th July, 2025. Probably along with many other communities, our village puts unused, grown-out-of, unwanted items out onto our driveways or walls for other people to take and a little while ago a small bear appeared on a wall down … Continue reading Ted Talk
Weather Systems
Begun 28th June, reporting 5th July 2025. This is Lancing seafront where a promenade emerges from behind some flats at one end and disappears into the far distance at the other. The beach is all pebbles and shingle except on … Continue reading Weather Systems
Frog Fall – stories in paint, words, and imagination
Finished today and off to the printer for a proof copy. It will be A4, black throughout, AR enabled, wire-bound to lie flat, and in landscape orientation. The electronic version has video content that is set to autoplay but that … Continue reading Frog Fall – stories in paint, words, and imagination
Shadow Army – new recruits
Serendipity can be the mother of persistence. I’d left the shadows behind until I came across a roll of self adhesive silver foil in a drawer and immediately thought of making a very different kind of void from my parade … Continue reading Shadow Army – new recruits
Shadow Army #2
After mucking up the muses by over-working them (https://strayfisharts.com/2025/04/06/shadow-army/) I took another run at the shadows today. Different shadows or I’m pretty sure I’d have repeated the nonsense. This time I made four A3 sized paintings using the same starting … Continue reading Shadow Army #2
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