Girl with a Shiny Earring

For several months, I have been glazing a copy of a Vermeer painting, made famous by a film. I shall now expand that sentence. Glazing is putting on thin layers of paint, with a lot of carrier and comparatively little

Turtle, day 3

Today was a comparatively short day on the turtle – I did not have to add any details, and it was just coloured blocks. I went back to the original sketch, and found that I had one of the flippers

Spotlight On: Robjn

An occasional series in which I look at someone who has impressed me, while attempting not to patronise them A couple of days ago, I was introduced to @robjn as a twitter #FF. For those who do not know, there

Self-Portrait in Oils, day 14

At some point I was going to have to tackle the tiling. Today was the day. Tiles, in general, go on in straight lines, and the human eye-brain combo is good at checking that lines are straight. It is also

Self-Portrait in Oils, day 13

This day’s work was supposed to be a development of a pearl bracelet, and nothing more. Pearls are a strange material. They are a matrix of something that is basically limestone, and if you rub two pearls together they will

Turtle, Day 2

Day 2 of the turtle painting had me putting the pigment two inches further up than I had originally planned, nixing a design problem.

Turtle, Day 1

A few days ago I started on something new. I read a lot of poetry with strange images and play fantasy games, and I took it into my head to paint a turtle the size of a small land mass.