Talking to the wind
It’s funny what turns up when you do a search for your own name on the interwebs, or several user names in my case. Not one but at least two of my photos being used illicitly on the websites of others, replete with my own copyright notice no less. It’s an odd sense of honour […]
Once again I am up with the dawn – pretty much every day this past week. I haven’t really been right since me and Bill returned from across the pond. I do suffer quite a bit from jet-lag. The adjustment to the usual five hour time difference between the USA and the UK is significant […]
At the stroke of midnight last night I added the final brush stroke to, what is my first ever landscape in oils. It has taken me almost a month to complete, although to be fair, half that time was spent waiting for layers of paint to dry. In between, me and Bill have repainted our […]
Rather than being close to completion, I like to think that I am instead slightly further away from the beginning than I was. Producing each layer is like watching paint dry – literally. As stated previously, I left the painting to dry a little over the weekend, at least enough that I could begin working […]
The tree line on the horizon has a little more tonal definition now and the foreground some more tonal variation. I’ve also blocked in the man and his wife in readiness for further glazes. The man will eventually be a lot darker as in the original photo, but I’m hoping that the texture of […]
Here’s where I’m at with this landscape painting after just a week. I think it’s been a week since I began – although I find I’m losing track of time. Hours fly past as I concentrate on just one portion of the painting at a time. The sky has now acquired three layers of paint […]
I’ve been promising myself to get back into painting for some years now. Specifically oil painting. My Dad, who was and still is a brilliant artist and fairly adept at using oils bought me my first easel and oil paint set when I was still in single digits – age 7 maybe. He taught me […]
How can I create if my house is not in order, If the inspiration I choose renders me numb, Stops my lips from forming the words I need to speak, So that I might reap the benefits of that love? Why should I come back, To paths well worn, And scenes remembered with retinal insistence […]
Today is Frida Khalo’s birthday. She was born 111 years ago in 1907, Mexico. You may or may not be aware that I am quite a fan of this fine and very talented young upstart (although 111 years may be a little past its sell-by) – just saying. We have an odd relationship, if you […]
Searching and sorting through my photo archives over the past six months I have come across some really quite peculiar synchronicities, which I shall write and post about in due course. Through this process however, I have learned to appreciate the way in which disparate photographic subject matters can have aesthetically cohesive themes, as with […]
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