I can’t bring myself to pick up a paintbrush lately, I don’t know what is wrong with me.

(Old stale paint scraped off a palette and smeared on a white cloth. Sony DSC-HX1.)

As I mentioned, I’ve been sentimental lately, for lack of a better word. Stupid, trivial things began to strike me as beautiful or important or desperately sad. More so than usual. I think it’s wearing off now but here are some photos of a seashell, which seemed tremendously necessary at the time. 

The other thing I saw in the forest this week was tree bark. I took about 8 million photos of tree bark. And maybe it’s just because I’ve been drawing a lot of naked women lately, but to me some of them look distinctly gynaecological. 

Opening a pristine tube of Chrome Yellow oil paint. I love when a fresh tube oozes a little binding agent/oil. 

Can I just say what we’re all thinking? Paint is sexy as hell.