Following on from the last blog, as promised I have been doing a painting from one of the monochrome photos I drew out quickly with thin...

Three days ago, it was too cold to go out. Pointed the camera at many random corners. Here are four I have not used yet. I put them into...

I often take photos in the home when a bit of early sunlight transforms things. This morning I was interested in the silhouetted...

Just a short blog today. I put the above quote into Google to find out who said it. Didn't get a precise answer. Maybe I remember the...

Feeling fed up two days ago I attacked an A2 piece of paper with charcoal. Realising how flat it looked I moved to black pastel to build...

I went online a few days ago and Googled-”Art and Perception”. I found an article by an artist/researcher called Robert Pepperell. I've...

I've been taking photos of odd views around the house, deliberately vague or badly lit and seeing what happens when playing with them on...

The painting based on a corner of the Leonardo painting, (see last blog) has been given a yellow wash. Not sure what to do with this....

In my last blog I shared some experiments with controlled dripping of paint. I start with showing “final” images of these more developed...

I have been painting in response to watching too much CNN. On Wednesday as the mobs raged in Washington I grabbed a canvas panel and...

Having spent a week or two not clearly focussed, I decided the best course of action is to make studies from artists drawings and...

The bleak invented landscape in last week's blog had a little more done to it. More colour. I will put it to one side pending...

I started drawing from an old image on my tablet of a distortion based on one of my sunflower paintings. Quickly sketched in pastel on a...

Sometimes the desire to paint is there, but no clear goal is in mind. What can happen is almost random. Feeling stuck, I cut out a...

Inspired by one of you who took part in last Friday's Zoom Critique! Feeling somewhat low with the present hermit life, I just started...

One of the few photos from my college days. I was posing on a wobbly log to impress a girl. I decided to do a large drawing in pastel,...

After a week of computer anguish, despair and expenditure, I have software that I hope will continue to work. Firstly, I was working on...

I started this in my last blog. I like the image and the strong tonal areas. This is where I got to by last Sunday. This is the photo I...

I start with my experiment into emotional, subjective expression. This is what I started with a week ago in my last blog. The swirls of...