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
For some years I’ve been adding audio tracks to my artwork, largely since I began making video based augmented reality versions. The tracks have all been free to use for non-commercial purposes. But with the prospect of using these AR … Continue reading Copyright: third party music files
Like the previous small paintings, this happened so fast there was no natural space for photo stages and my initial pencil drawings (from the photographs) were too light to see. So this is somewhere in the late middle of the … Continue reading The bend in the river
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’
This has been the most exciting time our village has had since, oh I dunno, there were real witches and we didn’t need fairy lights? Anyway, the footbridge connecting the village to the local town was removed a few weeks … Continue reading Bridge
Following on from the falling frogs, these are collaged birds cut from cartridge that was painted mostly black on the reverse and colourful on what I’d intended to be the front. There are seven different shapes along with some separate … Continue reading Black birds
Somewhere between beginning this painting and ‘seeing’ birds in it, there has been a Bank Holiday, Summer, a new PC with the challenge of Windows 11, a season that gives us winter between 6pm and 10am with summer in between, … Continue reading Sky, foliage, a pond
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