...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one. Christmas has been a bit more subdued this year, though a fine selection of dining was done, and a fine sellection of presents obtained. Here’s the annual Christmas card. And here’s a few quick tree pictures… Normal service will be resumed …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is a taster of something I am working on. Inspired by techno, orchestral metal and Hans Zimmer, creating some pretty intense soudtrack inspired pieces. This started from messing about the explore the sounds in Spitfire’s Iceni Library and went from there. Christian Bodden · …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been following a few of the free tutorials offered by Geoff Kersey, a landscape artist whose work I have found very appealing in some books I have. The painting above is very interesting as it almost seems that it should not work. It’s very …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just thought I would post these as I am quite pleased with them and they are the beginning of a bit of a themed project over winter, These are sketches, based on mini-tutorials on https://watercolourlandscapes.co.uk/ on painting snow and mountains. Then I thought I …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile down in Norwich the other month, I could not of course resist the lure of Jarrolds art shop again. This is alternatively heaven, or a way to spend all the money you don’t have, if you are like me, with a mixture of high …
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s probably impossible to have escaped knowledge of Temu over the last couple of years. The site that (apparently) lets you “Shop Like a Billionaire” became the darling of the younger Gen Z and the oldest Gen Alpha, amid concerns abouy Viruses, data protection, poor …
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have been down to Norwich, and Cambridge again, for yet more sorting of my father’s affairs (i.e mess). Actually, it was quite productyive on this occasion, as I did find much more of his art work, which I will discuss in due course, and …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I have mentioned, when making watercolours there’s always some left over in the mortar and I like to use this to prepare grounds for future work. These are some recent earths, on the poundland paper which I use for cheap expreimenting. These were inspired …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are lucky nowadays to have a massive array of complex pigments and dyes at our disposal, both organic pigments such as Quinocridones, Pyrrols, Perylenes etc, and the increasing inoganic metal pigments still being developed – Sicopal Spinel pigments, Zirconium Vanadium pigments, the miraculous Yinmn …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSomewhere I have been meaning to get to again for some time, is Middleton Railway. This little heritage line, tucked away in the arse-end-of-the-least-salubroious-area of Leeds is actually the oldest surviving railway in the world. Built as a horse drawn waggonway in 1758 to serve …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI think we’vr had a marginally better summer this year, or at least subjectively, I have managed to experience more of it from somewhere otger than sat in the office. The other evening I took the new Mungyo colours out in the front garden in …
