Oh, hello new year
Hey so it’s next year already! Howzabout that, eh? Oh, it’s February next year, you say? Well um, I’ve been busy, doing stuff and y’know… I mean do you think all those gessoed panels just … Read more
Hey so it’s next year already! Howzabout that, eh? Oh, it’s February next year, you say? Well um, I’ve been busy, doing stuff and y’know… I mean do you think all those gessoed panels just … Read more
I had an exhibition and it went very well, pretty much as well as such a thing can go – it was sold out before opening night! I paid off some debt and still had … Read more
As mentioned in my previous post (from aaaaages ago, I know. I’ve been painting (mostly)) I have an exhibition imminent. It’s called ’36 views of Table Mountain’, and it’s a homage to Hokusai’s ’36 views … Read more
I enjoy the drawn-out psychological quagmire that is cricket, both one-day games and test matches. One of the appeals is in the equivalent of watching a train wreck in slow motion: the mental disintegration of … Read more
I don’t know about some of you other self-employed types out there, but I’m beginning to wonder when/how I’ll ever get my mojo back. While I fought the good fight of productivity until just before … Read more
Recently completed gift for a family friend (delivered on the last day of the year!).
Here is some of the underpainting I’ve done for next year’s exhib. I’m quite enjoying obsessing over the detail on the edges… not sure how long that’ll last!
I’ll be having an exhibition at Everard Read, due to open on 1 October, 2014. Here are some of my source images, which also illustrate my obsession with plotting points.
I’ve been reading Virgil Elliott’s Traditional Oil Painting (2000). ‘Virtually all of the great works of art create a mood that the viewer cannot help but feel. This, more than anything else, is the mark of … Read more