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
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
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
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
This is quite spectacular, isn’t it? And the heavy thundery sky behind it? I suspect there may be two trees here, one with dark leaves, the other bright green. I found a canvas, a 50x40cm job which is a bit … Continue reading Tree
I came across a group hugging the fence by the path. Sometimes they’re steers – neutered males being raised for the meat market, other times they’re cows turned out onto grass after a winter indoors on hay, a move that … Continue reading Rural means there are ungulates
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
Sometimes it’s about screening. I’ve never had to hold in place a 2x4M wooden octopus but it would have been good practice for keeping upright what is now quite obviously an installation while it was pinned in place with posts … Continue reading Art isn’t always about meaning …
Titled after Joshua Idehan’s track available here. There have been so many disruptions in recent days, I managed to make a painting without posting a single image along the way. This is a retrospective post. I’ve very rarely, if ever, … Continue reading Patio #3 or ‘Your Mum Does the Washing’
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