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April 5th (Talk Talk) – once I’d chosen this as one of the songs, it had to be in the number five slot, even if it is two…
Song four : Unwind (Guy Garvey)
Song Three : Every Home is Wired (Porcupine Tree)
Song two : Wild Is The Wind (David Bowie) A gentle one today but it said what I wanted it to quite quickly and I’m trying to step…
My project for 28 Drawings Later this year is called 28 Songs Later. Exploring my music-inspired abstracts, I will paint a small (8″ square) abstract piece each day…
Gutted to hear of David Bowie’s passing today. Truly one of the 20th Century’s great artists. I bought Blackstar on Friday, the day it was released. I’m so…
I’ve been working on some small abstract “doodles” for the Gibson St. Gala next week. These are little acrylics on board based on songs mostly. It gets me…
So, warm up out the way I returned to a piece I’d abandoned late last year. Sorrow is an oil landscape on a black primer, as opposed to the usual…
After a long time away from oils (mostly due to the [REDACTED] project) I decided to break myself back in with a warm up. And since I’m not…
Last Summer my friend Rich, who is in a band called Also Eden dropped me an email. He asked “have you ever done artwork for an album cover?”…
The trip to Logierait had more to give. After a stormy day (the latter part of which we spent in the pub) we returned to the lodge late…
Late last Summer we took a trip up to Logierait, which is a small village near Pitlochry in Perthshire. I took the opportunity to attempt my very first…
Looks like I had a couple of works in progress up of this one. The provisional title stuck, and Two Roads was finished late last Summer. Oil on…
The Love Supreme project has developed quite a bit, and I realised I hadn’t posted an update. I got discouraged with it so it sat for quite a…
I started a new landscape in oils. It wasn’t going well so I mixed all the blue of the sky and the green of the land together, and…
I love skies and I have dozens of photos from many trips over the years. I have painted from these a few times in the past but I…
Another wee cloudscape. This one’s a work in progress, because it’s been built up using thinner layers which have to dry in between. With oils this means waiting…
It’s not often I paint anything small enough to scan in on my A4 scanner, but this one is. I think I going to experiment with some glaze…
This is kind of my tribute to Southern Ontario, but also to The Group of Seven, who were an incredible collective of Canadian artists active in the 1920s…
My first oil landscape is finished!
This was a bit of a joke, but people liked it so here it is in all its mental glory – the Psychedelic Sink.
First oil landscape coming along. Liking the clouds but they’re hard work to build up in layers. Being able to dab at the edges with a rag ages…