Taking many photos lately, mostly of colours and textures I suppose I will ultimately try and replicate in paint. Call it research, why not.
Food dye + some mysterious crystallizing liquid found in a neglected, cobwebby salt cellar.
Galleries
It’s nearly Halloweeeeeen.
Time to identify and face your deepest fears:
a) raptors
b) the dark
c) time’s inexorable onward trundle oh god why is nothing done
d) zombies
e) RAPTORS
(Video of fox mask filmed through a green bottle of pink cider.)
Some more sketches of Russian wolfhounds for this man, who likes these, probably because he too is a tall, hairy, rangy creature who rarely barks and has a surprising tolerance for low temperatures.
Sketchbook.
As most painters will tell you, it is rather galling to spend weeks on a series of paintings only to start cleaning up and find that your filthy, paint-encrusted palette is at least as beautiful as anything you’ve managed to commit to (or against) canvas.
I’ve evidently been looking at Christian art too much lately, because this reminds me of a Renaissance painting, possibly of the Assumption of Mary, or maybe some obscure saint experiencing an ecstatic conversion.
To be clear, it is actually some detritus lurking just beneath the surface of filthy, man-made lake.