Art Every Day Month – Day 1: Cornish Sea

1 November 2009

Ta da!
Well it may not look like much to you, sunshine, but that, my dear, is a very big step forward.
That is the sea off the Cornish coast, storm tossed and filled with fabulous creatures like snakelock anemones, brown velvet crabs and tompot blennies. And mermaids of course. Work in progress; creating oceans takes time, [...]

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How to break an artistic funk in three easy steps

1 November 2009

So I’ll come clean.
I’ve been in a bit of a funk.
It’s true. Oh yes.
For most of October, despite it being my favouritest month ever, I’ve been feeling pretty much paralysed by doubt and fear.
Were I living in a war zone, or Neanderthal times, or I don’t know, amongst brain-eating zombies or something, this might actually [...]

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Hips, haws, sloes and Lothlórien ash trees

30 October 2009

Yes, yes, I know we’ve already done the obligatory oh-look-it’s-autumn post, but seriously, when I said September was my favourite month? I lied. October has totally blown September into a cocked hat this year.
(Um, WTF does ‘blown into a cocked hat’ actually mean? My mum says it all the time.  But where did it come from? Answers on a [...]

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Monday Meanderings #1: And now for something completely different

19 October 2009

Well, maybe not completely different, but different enough to be interesting… to me, and hopefully to you, my esteemed and valued readers. (This means you. Yes, really.)
Sometimes it seems like I’ve been meandering round t’interweb forever (since around 1997 actually, but in web terms that probably puts me on a par with Odysseus). And in [...]

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Even more new photos! Sketchbooks!

3 October 2009

And a surfeit* of exclamation marks! Apparently!
I have been remiss and not writing enough posts lately – mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
But even though it’s not been apparent on the surface, I have been stirring away in the bowels of WordPress here getting ready for all kinds of new stuff for this site, [...]

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Spider season

21 September 2009

Autumn came early this year.
The horse chestnuts turned first, right at the beginning of September, no doubt partly from drought. Since the torrential rain in August we haven’t had much at all here in central England. That might’ve been good if we’d had warm sunny days instead, but no; for the most part, it’s been [...]

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Hurrah! New photos – with goblins!

16 September 2009

Finally and at long last I have some reasonable photos of my most recent major work to share with you… photos of We Must Not Look at Goblin Men have just been uploaded to my portfolio.
It’s been quite difficult to get good pictures of this one. Firstly because it’s big; not quite Douglas-Adams-Hitchhikers-Guide-”space-is-big” big, but [...]

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The one where I panic just a little

5 September 2009

Omigod. It’s here already. Open Studios starts today. Already? Srsly?
My art, in public. With a price tag on it. Ack.
Worse, with me there, in easy eavesdropping range, baring my creative soul and offering myself up as an artistic Aunt Sally for people to throw shoes at.
Woah. I must have secret masochistic tendencies. Do all artists [...]

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Digital Pre-Raphaelites

19 August 2009

Dunno about you, but I’m enormously enjoying the saucy romp that is BBC 2’s Desperate Romantics. It may be a highly compressed and questionably accurate portrayal of events, but I declare, sir, it’s damn good fun. If you’ve missed it, all the episodes are still available on BBC iPlayer, and of course we still have [...]

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Danger: low flying shoes ahead

14 August 2009

Earlier this week, someone threw a shoe at me.
“WTF?” you’re thinking.* “What sort of person throws shoes at people?”
Of course, it wasn’t a real shoe. It was that kind of shoe throwing described by the wonderful, wacky, wise Havi Brooks. It was “a particularly condescending remark about something” I did, and at the same time [...]

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