...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 6 minutesWelcome to Volume 2 of my Inside the Sketchbook series, where I have scanned and presented my sketchbooks, in the hope that they will be of use and interest to other Artists. This is a black sprial bound A4 Sketchbook, from Poundland – they produced …
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor something to do, this last week, we decided to go over the Hebden Bridge – the archetypal day out in West Yorkshire. Of course the climate-changed English Weather being what it is after a lovely hot Monday (which was actually quite beneficial to get …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy Father’s will left me a great collection of manuscripts of transcriptions he had made of various folk melodies, processionals, carols and other tunes. I have been slowly working to further trascribe some of these myself to midi files, and to re-imagine some of these …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have finally manage to do something I have been meaning to do for a while, and actually get out and do some painting outdoors, or “En Plein Air” as they like to call it. I recently made a pocket set – a literally pocket …
Reading Time: 7 minutesAfter a bit of a flurry of pigment buying, I have got to the point I have enough different pigments to have a bit of a go at making my own colours, to slightly more defined recipes than before. Though as weill be seen, it’s …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor what is essentially a fairly unassuming little path, the track that I walked up past The Lizard nature reserve in Wymondham has seen quite a bit of artistic action and has now prompted me to take on a few similar scenes. So after the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot, as the title may suggest some kind of Italian starter, rather one of the times that the middle aisle in Aldi has something interesting, in this case a set of “dimensional acrylics”. I actually got these some time ago, but had a painting that …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile I tend to wait until I am at least part way through a set or project, I thought I would put this up now. This is an idea I want to explore further, based on my Backstreets and Rooftops photographic project from some years …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am not sure why I have not got around to writing about these for such a while, but I have been starting to play about with oil paints as a bit of an additional exploration. This is something I am very much finding my …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been so busy this last few weeks, it’s taken a while to get the last of these up. Our last morning in London, we went to have a proper look around some of the new development of the Kings Cross area. After exploring …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been flicking through some very old archives while backfilling some gaps in this site which got lost when transferring the structure at some point and came across these. These, from my notes, were taken using Kodak Gold 100 in a QB35 – this …
