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.

Self-Portrait in Oils, day 12

This was the day I blocked in eyes and hair, and found out what the portrait would look like. The shock of white that was where the hair would be, while interesting, was not helpful. However, I started with the

Self-Portrait in Oils, day 11

Day 11 was an easy painting day, in some respects. I avoided the hair and eyes, and added the background, for easy effect. I went with a darker shade than on the original photo, making it a warm colour to

Cambridge

I went to Small-Scale-Survival in Aid and Abet, an art space close to Cambridge Station. It is housed in an old warehouse, and there is a three year lease, which gives the place some stability. Their show, now sadly closed,

Self-Portrait in Oils, day 9

Regular Probst Fans will recall I have two small children. Over the Easter holidays, I got very little work done. The return of the Tiny Penguin to nursery and the Small Person to the coal mines gave me the free