Am I seeing things? The moment I started to paint this, the Robot appeared. I’d been drawn to the ornate hinges on the large black door and the fanlight above. The orange yellow glow of ink became his eyes. The arch or stones above his hair. A mouth looking slightly worried and a box body […]
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Nothing Special. This could be anywhere and I’m often asked where it is, and even when I answer, I see doubt in the person’s eyes. This wall is somewhere in Buckingham. It’s stone, irregular, weathered, the individual stones hard to see. There’s a patch of dressed stone to the right, part of a window frame.
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Appreciate the simple things A single wall light glowing orange against a swirling indigo sky. The dark blue, is textured with tiny, fuzzy specks. A feature of the use of salt and time. Some effects cannot be rushed. This piece is less crowded than number 9, and this allows the paint freedom to create texture
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How 16 Handrail reminds me of my past life A strange place to begin, but the 16 Handrail painting meditation threw up some interesting thoughts. When I started these reflections on paintings I often had deep thoughts, and this inspired me. With other images, I tended to be carried away with poetic verse. Even the
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Why a Heart Keyhole Painting? I’m not into hearts and flowers and cute images in general. So I sometimes wonder why I chose this keyhole? It was for its heart shape, but why does that appeal? What is it about hearts that makes them so popular for keys and keyholes? It’s a rhetorical question, beacause
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No Sign of a Flood but there is a Rainbow Porch This is another busy painting. The Porch of the Radcliffe Centre in Buckingham, the former United Reformed Church. The Porch is present, of course, but so much is included as part of the package of “The Porch”. A doorway, windows, a very cute buttress,
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36 Dormer Window Painting Another busy scene, the dormer windows are at the centre set into the roof. There’s a sense of antiquity about the building. It’s been here a long time. A calmness pervades, this unhurried aspect may be because they are upper rooms, probably bedrooms. The windows take up a fraction of the
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38 Timber frame painting Old buildings have a tendency to sag with age. Especially buildings as old as this one. Like everything, they age and these signs of age have appeal. Of course, the sagging is a sign of wear, and structures, once solid and firm, are affected by weight, use, infestations, fires, etc. All
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Reflecting on a Letterbox Painting This is another painting where the ink has been able to “do its thing”. The purple network on the top left leading to the speckled bloom above. Marine blue inks bleeding into pale blue wash. The letterbox painted in sepia and Prussian blue has pink patches where the colours in
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