Archives: March 2012

Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow

I spent yesterday creeping my way across this teasing out some volume and getting, very slowly it seemed to me, to white. The day before had been all fast and fun and filled with lovely wet paint. I was in … More

Veil

Like someone with a flakey grasp of a foreign language I’m going about this painting in a very round about way! but it is creeping towards coherence. It may not end up as the bubble gum tumult that I’d set … More

On The Shoulders of Giants Update

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Consequences 23 and 25

Gradually building up a surface. Unclogging the blacks and teasing out the drawing. Good fun although the imagery has become a problem. Too many people have asked whether these have anything to do with 9/11 and the twin towers. No! … More

Another Blurry Photo

15/03/12 An update: I thought I’d update this post rather than spawn a new one. The paints getting thicker, licking around the figures in parts, chiseling them in others. I’m enjoying it. The idea is for the surface to churn … More

On The Shoulders of Giants

Quite a blurry mobile photo taken at the end of a stange day working into this. Strange because I wandered around the yard and studio doing pretty much anything but paint and yet I quite like the way this has … More

Inertia

I was thinking about families today. Share

Push me pull you

Some studies on another idea that I’ve never really got right. Part Pieta, part farce in a very shallow space. Share

Pitch

Some more studies in pursuit of an idea which will, surely, come good eventually! It will, it will, I tell you! Share

Leap

I have, in the words of Fagin, been “reviewing the situation” and have arrived at some tentative conclusions which I’ve have been working through in a series of studies. Tiepolo meets Uderzo with more paint just about sums it up … More