Michelangelo, David, marble, 1501–04 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence)
: “This post is a follow-up to my post from last year September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? and I draw upon a lot of the concepts I laid out there. It’s a little longer and rantier than I…”
Two minute concept sketch in pastels on black paper by the author
: “Lamia is a character from Greek mythology who — like many other deities and monsters of Greek mythology — seems to have been reimagined several times during the classical period. The earliest…”
Some sample pages of Myth and Masks
: “As I prepare to move to a new rented property next month I keep looking at all my belongings and want to lighten the load. …”
The Houses of Parliament, photograph by the author
: “When you’re planning to move home there’s suddenly a day when the place that you’ve called home stops being home in some intangible way, and it instead becomes a departure lounge, and then you…”
Ubiquitous Office ’97 clip art, as found on bad presentations and photocopied fliers everywhere
: “[Forenote: the title of this post references a volume of Spike Milligan’s memoirs, and its claim should be taken with the same degree of seriousness] …”
: “Three weeks ago I met up with visual arts writer Mark Sheerin to talk about my artwork. I’m delighted to say that the resulting interview has now been published on his site: …”
: “A world-famous painting, worth millions of pounds, has been savagely attacked by activists earlier today. The activists have been arrested by police, who arrived swiftly on the scene to assess the…”
My living area/home office/studio - photograph by the author
: “I’ve rented a couple of actual artist’s studios in my time. The first was when I was living in the Earlsdon area of Coventry around 1992–1994 - it was a spare room above a gallery in a converted…”
: “I’ve recently started to feel like my Acid Renaissance series is finally coming to a conclusion. There are perhaps three or four more pieces left to do, after which it will be finished. …”
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Life-drawings from Monday and today (by the author)
: “I’ve taken this week off as annual leave from my day-job, to both get some artwork done and to make sure I use up my annual leave before I lose it. …”
Detail from Saints & Martyrs
: “This image has been a long time coming. …”
: “In my post last month about life-drawing I mentioned that the amount of oil used in the Faber-Castell Pitt sanguine pencil meant that I couldn’t get the tonal variation from it that I could from…”
: “On Friday and Saturday I finally restarted the life-drawing thread of my artistic practice after a break since November. …”
Life-drawing from March 2023 by the author
: “I deliberately skipped the archetypal “round-up of 2023” blog post, I’m not entirely sure why. …”
Silbury Hill, Avebury - photograph by the author
: “A post by web developer Jeremy Keith (who, by coincidence, is also based in Brighton & Hove) came up in my RSS feeds today entitled After the end. …”
Read the rest of “Acid Renaissance as we approach the end of 2023”…
Previously unpublished shot of The Duellist, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. …”
Photograph taken by the author.
: “Back in August I wrote about a lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism, and my deep-felt aversion to the call to adopt these trappings in the…”
Previously unpublished shot from the series Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “As I continue with the final preparation for my Saints & Martyrs artwork (which I wrote about back in August), most of my thoughts have been about surrealism. …”
Vauxhall Bridge over the river Thames, with Aquarius House, St George Wharf, London. Photograph by the author.
: “This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. …”
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Three life-drawings from last weekend. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I managed to fit in a life-drawing session this past weekend, three drawings from it are displayed above. …”
Read the rest of “September life-drawing: not safe for whose work?”…