And moved a bridge. From a photograph, this is a not wholly representational image of the day an enormous crane arrived to lift the new bridge into place. I began with a pencil drawing to outline the shapes in their … Continue reading The day that the crane came down
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
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
Thinking of my previous post in which I described the effect of an unnamed virus on my cognitive functioning and wondering how to give some kind of visual representation to it, I turned to Rebelle7, a digital painting app. This … Continue reading Representing an hallucination
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
Or maybe Storm. Instagram may have a view. As always, this draws from rather than reproduces one of the many photos I’ve taken of systems like this approaching the village. I prefer to think of it as making a painting … Continue reading Weather Front
I have a number of apps with which to make the moving images that I use to overlay or incorporate in my art work, and the ones I use most are PowerDirector for making videos, MotionLeap for its effects library … Continue reading Making videos and using effects
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
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