I started this painting on April 21st and somehow failed to generate my usual running commentary. And nor can I find the reference photograph! I do have an image record though. Thereafter, the painting slipped its mornings and took its … Continue reading Painting the photos #4
When access to physical gallery space is limited, you have to look for other options and there are several, some more based in the real world than others. The first is to use photographs of, for instance, a scene across … Continue reading Exhibition venues
A note on the apps I use and the realisation that fewer, but at depth, is better than more. I could probably collect apps for my phone and my PC indiscriminately and there have been times I’ve downloaded the same … Continue reading Post tutorial expansion
Live as-it-happened video made by stitching together 30 second bursts of film taken by a Blink motion-activated security/wildlife camera. Absolutely not a how-to-paint video! The painting is currently untitled. Adur riverTidal river becomes a long neck goose when I look … Continue reading Painting in progress – video clips
When you start to like the first thing you did (Church path) It’s happened again.That rough paint sketchBright orange where no orange should be on a vicar’s pathAnd pinkShocking luminous pink (Ooh Missis)In the brickworkOf its walls.It’s roughIt’s unschooledIt’s brashIt’s … Continue reading Pathway
This has a Chinese feel to it and I’m loath to leave that far behind by adding colour to the foliage, but do the leaves now need to be better defined? For the moment – cats’ eyes. Pretend PantherPretend panther … Continue reading Crouching panther
I’ve been writing about this for a while (essay: Doors to Inception 2023*; dissertation How old does technology have to be before we stop noticing it? 2024*), concluding that, like every implement adopted or created by artists since the first … Continue reading AI and Art
I am drawing quite a lot here on written responses I made using the 3.2 materials I’d been sent before I became ill. These have since changed in structure and require a different approach, but as the core elements are … Continue reading Project Plan
The image here is a screenshot from the wildlife camera on a table at the end of the patio. The overlay is one of my photos of girders under Brighton pier. The composite is made in PhotoDirector with the low-opacity … Continue reading Lights on a wet patio
I chose a photo of a dark landscape with a narrow strip of land at the bottom, pinched a heavy, roiling sky from another, ran it through MotionLeap and added some effects (probably birds, maybe bats), turned that into an … Continue reading Painting the photos – landscapes #3
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