The hedges are taking over!! In the summer our garden seems to shrink by several feet around the edges, and I think this represents that phenomenon. I think a fair bit of my work comes from bad photos. Over/under-exposed, blurry and shaky. Waste not want not! This was painted with really thick tasty wet paint that has dried disappointingly flat.
In other news, I have been experimenting with hanging systems, namely drilling holes in the backs to hang off screws. Can I get that right for 99? I can feel a trip to Homebase coming on…
To varnish or not to varnish?
Looking at Sussex Heights from the NCP car park in Brighton. From a series of car park photos that I don’t know what to do with. Look out for the one I haven’t done yet from Aldershot…
I lived in Brighton once or twice. Now we just go for day trips. Other cool places in Brighton to visit are: The Pier, Dig in the Ribs, The Lego shop and that kebab shop on Western Road that sells really nice falafel.
All easily do-able in a day.
This is from a very over-exposed photo of ‘Meditation’ at the Musee Rodin in Paris. I think it’s one of the nicest places in Paris. Other cool places to go are The Catacombs, the Pere Lachaise Cemetry, and the Pompidou. I’ve been to Paris three times and each time it’s been for my birthday in February. I wonder what the place is like in the Spring…
I have worked out that nine rows of 11 paintings will fit comfortably on one studio wall. I may begin to put them up for the Surrey Arts Open Studios event in June. I’d like to show them in a gallery in just one row. Approx 26 linear metres needed. That’s not much. Still haven’t quite worked out how to hang them yet. Blu-tack?
This was taken in and around 1987 on the way to Dovedale for the night. We would drive up in the brown Escort, sleep in the carpark and walk in the morning. With new camera in hand I took pictures of all sorts of crap. Blurred, over exposed and badly composed. Look out for the one of the cyclist we passed in future posts…
I am part way through the first 25 and getting really into them. All in various states of completion, I am wondering if my painting style/techniques will develop in any way?
It wasn’t my idea for the cat’s name, but indeed it was ‘Saucepan’, our studenty cat from Stoke On Trent. Psycho cat. The cat is very blurry in the original photo but the fruit bowl came out nice! Ironic that the bowl should meet it’s kitchen floory doom at the hands of a different psycho… but that’s a blog no one wants to read…
