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
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
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
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
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
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
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