These videos, visible using the Artivive app when there is a signal, went up today in celebration of VE Day, the day that marked the end of the Second World War. You’ll see that the in-app recordings – that is, … Continue reading VE Day 1945-2025
I’ve been including cats in my paintings, largely because they’re in most of my photos, and making a supreme effort to have them as cat shapes in the same way the foliage hints at what it might be rather than … Continue reading Post 3.3 second tutorial
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’
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
With no clear notion of why, I took photos of my shadow a while ago, performed a bit of digital magic with them, then abandoned them to Google. The whole shadow idea has re-emerged once again as the USA is … Continue reading Shadow Army
Photo references. Inexplicably dark. However. Top left gives me composition, top right gives me the light, and bottom right is all about tone, weight, and wet paving stones. As always, the one cat gives me trouble and she may have … Continue reading Gardenscape with cats – patio #1 and #2
Q: What do you paint? A: I paint ideas. Continue reading Q&A
Aka, the VE Day painting, early iteration. Because this will primarily appear as a moving image, I wanted lots of bright colours, hints of flags, and some wartime photos which are mostly my own family. The white areas will shortly … Continue reading You’ll need sunglasses for this one
Gearing up now to begin the last lap in this undergrad painting enterprise so naturally I’m starting with my most compelling and esoteric subject matter – an overweight cat and a whole lot of leaves. It’s the colours though that … Continue reading Gardenscape with large cat
Own cat, master of the ear twitch, moves like a silk scarf. Acrylics on cartridge. Wave your #Artivive app at him and see what happens. (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Charlie
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