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
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
Each of these is a greenscreen circle through which I can project videos and change them without changing the frame. The videos are all based on my own paintings. Audio is mine, made in Magix Music Maker. The images above … Continue reading Circles
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
Finished today and off to the printer for a proof copy. It will be A4, black throughout, AR enabled, wire-bound to lie flat, and in landscape orientation. The electronic version has video content that is set to autoplay but that … Continue reading Frog Fall – stories in paint, words, and imagination
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
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
Sometimes it’s about screening. I’ve never had to hold in place a 2x4M wooden octopus but it would have been good practice for keeping upright what is now quite obviously an installation while it was pinned in place with posts … Continue reading Art isn’t always about meaning …
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