Well, doesn’t this have potential! The gold vinyl foil is quite substantial and has will power to match so it’s quite a handful to manipulate. But, the drawing done on an A1 sheet of cartridge, I painted the outline then … Continue reading 22 carat shadows
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
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
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
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
Cataclysm is an animation of my own painting with video material and animation overlaid using PhotoDirector. The original reference photo (also mine) is of Lancing beach in one of its more apocalyptic moods. (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Cataclysm
There’s a whole story about fence ownership, solar panels, and silent digital revenge here. (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Pigeon Power
An unusually stable in-app recording showing all the AR fly-outs provided by Artivive. Don’t you just love tech when it works? (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Spring video repurposed for Valentine’s Day
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