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Cumulo Carcharhinus (WIP)

Decided to get a new largeish oil on the go. Something that I can potter at for a while. I’ve revisited one of the paintings I did for…

Sorrow – WIP #2

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…

The Love Supreme project #5

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…

Two Roads (provisional title)

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…

Small cloud study #2 – Peak District (WIP)

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…

Small cloud study #1

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…

Canadian Fall (*very* WIP)

Oil beach – work in progress #2

Beachscape WIP

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…

A Love Supreme – layer three

3 plays; 102 minutes. Been a while since I worked on this which I think might have contributed to a more powerful reaction this time. All crimsons and…

Drawing twenty-three – Loch Fyne WIP #3

Spot the ‘secret weapon’!

Drawing twenty – The Love Supreme project – layer two

A second 34 minutes on the Love Supreme project. Some nice new rhythmic devices coming in. I got rather taken in by the bass solo at the end…

Drawing fifteen – Loch Fyne Landscape (WIP #3)

Drawing thirteen – A Love Supreme layer one (WIP)

A new abstract based on John Coltrane’s Love Supreme. It will be many layers, each based on one 34 minute play of the album. This is the first.

Drawing twelve – Mercury cast (WIP)

Sorry, drawing eleven didn’t happen. But back at the Maryhill cast drawing this morning started a new one on bigger paper to be continued into next week. I…

Drawing ten – Loch Fyne landscape again

Drawing eight – Loch Fyne landscape WIP

The current painting, on the easel in the studio.

Kaikoura (20 hours)

I’m toying with titling this Open are the double doors of the horizon; unlocked are its bolts which is from the texts found in the Egyptian pyramids, via…

Embryonic Landscape

Kaikoura (WIP at approx 10 hours)

Spirit of Eden (WIP)

A new beginning

This started off as trying to do something Monet-esque with some warm greens and some yellow and red highlights. Not quite sure where it wandered off but I’m…

Multi-tasking!

New astronomy pic Oxygene taking shape on the drawing board, and slightly experimental thing provisionally titled Weather Storm drying at a jaunty angle on the floor beneath the…

Nebula 2 – WIP #1

First layer of colours on….

New life as a new nebula

Some might recognise this as Nightwater – an attempted and failed abscape trying to capture the way light seems to eminate from water at night. Well I was…