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
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
No, America, don’t start packing your rifles and booking flights. For a start, we barely have a bus service, never mind an airport; and for a next, these are fluffy, woolly, bedtime buddies with no teeth. I’m a bit late getting this up on the wall due to knowing nothing about the charity trail until a couple of hours ago. Not art, though, is it? Admittedly not, more physics really, because that’s what underpins most things. But when an augmented reality teddy bear halfway up the side of a building is called for, a science lesson isn’t really going to … Continue reading Beeding Bear Hunt
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
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