tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59658970578535582992024-03-17T06:53:01.587+00:00K N I F E P A I N T E RAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-41616393018635631772012-02-20T22:08:00.000+00:002012-02-20T22:08:37.726+00:00Goodbye to all that.........Since we last spoke things have happened.
Actually, I made something happen. I applied for a place on a masters degree course. I got a place. I started last October.
Having got through the first term, and passed the first unit I have decided to try and write again.
I think this blog was suffering from many of the same issues as my work; going round in circles not totally sure of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-80181347796233721302011-06-17T07:59:00.000+01:002011-06-17T07:59:00.953+01:00coming drawing tomorrow ???
Another week flashes past, lots of creativity going on all around.
My eldest had the Private View for her end of course show at Paston College last night......it was fabulous.
Heaps of bright, shiny, creative young people, accompanied by an even larger number of astonished parents and other visitors.
Congratulations are most certainly due to all the students, and to Matt and his staff.
I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-8148747600378779132011-06-15T17:28:00.000+01:002011-06-15T17:28:40.616+01:00in the pink
Busy times.......
The work is progressing, with three small paintings finished and half a dozen decent drawings pointing the way towards more complete things in the near future.
There are more than a few balls in the air in other areas. The new life drawing class started last Saturday, with two new students. I have the promise of at least four for this coming Saturday.
If you are local and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-66466274049809648132011-06-05T11:09:00.000+01:002011-06-05T11:09:16.277+01:00life drawing alive shock.......
Just to say, there is a new life drawing class starting next Saturday, 11th of June, at North Walsham High School.
Start time is 12.00pm, finish time is 2.00pm. I will be guiding for some, teaching others, and leaving some alone if that suits them best !
The price for the two hour session is £12.50, and I am running them for the next six consecutive Saturdays. If enough participants show up, we Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-76861260871611577312011-06-04T13:08:00.001+01:002011-06-04T13:43:30.795+01:00more vigour
The beach painting at the top was the result of a fabulously sunny day hereabouts yesterday.
The main reason for painting it, other than the weather, was to test out a new additive to my paint. It is an impasto medium, which allows me to slap the paint on thicker.
On balance, I am happy with the result and will be experimenting further with it on a larger scale with the nudes.
Below are twoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-77574232719424570742011-06-02T19:02:00.000+01:002011-06-02T19:02:48.174+01:00sunny days........
are meant for this.........Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-26102357661673232022011-05-14T19:01:00.000+01:002011-05-14T19:01:18.114+01:00on the easel.......
The arrival of Spring, and a determined approach, have meant an upturn in production.
As ever, trying to strike the balance between vigour and fussiness is taxing me. Passion, not polish is my aim and although my head is hurting a little, I am happy with this stuff.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-80377440612747273482011-05-09T11:48:00.001+01:002011-05-09T11:53:42.867+01:00Begging Letter......Last year up here on the North Norfolk coast, there was a new, intimate, entertaining, creative arts festival called COAST.
This year it will be very much more intimate if a few more quid can't be raised............
Everyone involved in organising COAST is working for the love of it, you would be giving to further enjoyment of and engagement with the Arts.
If you have a business or an event toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-62538146920169372592011-02-28T17:53:00.000+00:002011-02-28T17:53:21.575+00:00Some good newsI have been accepted for the Fine Art MA at NUCA.....that's Norwich University College of the Arts.
It starts in October, so much thinking and creating to be done.
sketches and ideas on here soon........Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-58195834586213700572011-02-13T21:49:00.000+00:002011-02-13T21:49:16.818+00:00Nice hat.....
Great Yarmouth Dog Track + Beer = Man Love
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-43426501314022458512011-01-14T10:56:00.002+00:002011-01-14T21:32:39.651+00:00Hugh's Fish FightToday I am posting without any illustration, a rarity if not a first for me.
I would like you to consider joining the Fish Fight, a campaign that I believe is a chance for us to help overturn the European fisheries policy which forces fishermen to return perfectly edible dead fish to the sea, simply because they have caught their quota of a given species.
This waste is not a new problem. I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-90061270639624857282011-01-11T19:06:00.007+00:002011-01-11T19:31:41.552+00:00New Year....new start ?So, it would appear my little vacation from writing this blog has turned into a gap of over a year.I think maybe that the extended gap is an illustration of two things; firstly how compressed time has become for all of us, and secondly how stale my online output was becoming.A fair amount of water has flowed under my creative bridge since we last spoke. Sales have been appalling, but the lack of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-89379854828838533662009-11-28T15:35:00.005+00:002009-11-28T15:40:14.773+00:00....and there's moreThe top one is up for an opening bid of £25.00, the middle one is £10.00 and the bottom £15.00.G'wan, you know you want to........Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-11708201935205118602009-11-28T12:59:00.004+00:002009-11-28T13:10:28.485+00:00Some of the work available........Just a sample of what's available today.The top one has a starting bid of £10.00, the middle one is £40.00 and the bottom (in all senses of the word) is £35.00.How can you resist ???Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-8103682307957767512009-11-27T11:53:00.002+00:002009-11-27T12:15:31.750+00:00What are you doing tomorrow ?If you fancy an evening out, why not come along?This is the second sealed bid auction we have done at the shop. The last one was three years ago, and I said then that I would do another in three years time, so here we are.Currently there are 58 pieces of work up for grabs. Each one has a minimum bid price, the cheapest of which is £10.00, rising to £150.00 for the most expensive.A tally is kept Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-62998363040342391742009-10-09T13:37:00.005+01:002009-10-10T19:22:23.726+01:00hey-hoSo, PDF files, what are they all about ?At the risk of sounding tetchy, why can't I create a simple table, then e-mail it out so others can fill it in ?Currently that's a rhetorical question, by the way. I no longer care. I've moved on. Oh yes. It's not bothering me. Not at all. Bothered I am not.No, really.Back to the easel then, hope you dear readers are all well, speak soon.XAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-70616093786125776092009-09-12T20:12:00.002+01:002009-09-12T20:23:35.596+01:00I was sent this by e-mail..............and I want to make it very clear that I am not leading a double life.My irregular wafflings on here have detailed some of the thoughts trials and tribulations of a struggling artist.I now find that my namesake is quietly undermining me with his burgeoning jewelery business, somewhere in our nations capital.It would appear that somewhere in the dim and distant, a branch of the family Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-13775225223711855492009-09-05T09:20:00.002+01:002009-09-05T09:29:55.221+01:00we can be a bit short of surf...................on our coast.But not today.Got up later than planned, and didn't get wet myself, but there were several folk up and at it early on.I took these pics at what used to be a secret spot.......but judging by how many people were in the water, I guess the word has spread !Nice to get back behind a camera, I'm in the mood now, so off to a place called Sea Palling to get some more pics.........Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-60031476036701706722009-09-02T15:01:00.003+01:002009-09-02T15:11:44.241+01:00Follow Ed to ParisThis is my good friend Ed Foss, (the one at the bottom of the picture)Today he has set off from London, accompanied by his team-mates and several hundred others, to cycle from London to Paris in Aid of the Royal British Legion.You should be able to follow his progress here;http://norfolknomads.blogspot.comGive him a look if you have a mo', and leave comments of love and support, he's a top bloke.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-57935672874185626332009-08-26T11:09:00.003+01:002009-09-02T13:46:05.104+01:00it must be summer..........................because I have failed to post for sooooo long !Anyway, no boring excuses, the image above may help you understand my lack of application. The image was taken a few hundred yards from my house, one morning last week.Would you be stuck in front a computer ?I think not.While spending a more than reasonable amount of time on the beach, I have managed to do some work.Working from Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-12743828305430276262009-06-06T10:54:00.005+01:002009-06-06T11:26:30.991+01:00nobody here but us chickens.....I spent some of yesterday sanding down and re-priming a couple of metre square canvases. The work on them was more than a year old, and part of a series that didn't quite hit the spot.Not so long ago, I would have been really reticent about obliterating stuff that had taken a fair time to produce, but lately I have been embracing the cathartic elements of destroying old work.There is some Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-61281197559940075672009-06-02T22:18:00.003+01:002009-06-02T22:31:28.277+01:00onwardsSo, Open Studios is closed, so to speak.I'm pleased to say that I had a good one. Around 250 visitors over the seventeen days, some interesting and interested people, and a good level of sales.......hurrah !I even had a 'runner'.......that's someone who comes in and is frightened by the sheer level of filth on display, stays for no more than a minute, and immediately goes out through the door Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-87682758786947973592009-05-29T14:42:00.003+01:002009-05-29T14:57:34.576+01:00Hawt............that's the yard at the studio.Great day today, lots of odds and ends done, drank beer outdoors with the fabulous two at lunchtime, (my landlady's), also my man Beachfreak nipped in to say hello.The smells of hot sand and the sea, warm concrete and that odd 'green' odor that is as rare as the true early British summer day.Under normal circumstances it's easy to let days like today pass by Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-79810209801116787122009-05-26T15:53:00.001+01:002009-05-26T15:55:49.406+01:00this one...................sold almost as soon as it was hung.........................I wonder why.........?!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965897057853558299.post-73454159162719787902009-05-26T11:46:00.002+01:002009-05-26T11:55:32.144+01:00Birthdays-n-stuff......Sunday evening, on the beach, Bank Holiday Monday to follow........what's not to like ?Some of you may be familiar with the Gingerwitch.....(pictured above paddling in the balmy North Sea).....but even if you 'aint, there is no doubting her skills.The weather she ordered for her birthday was bright blue from dawn till dusk.I think it would be foolish to let her keep any of your hair or nail Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18426075550403567515noreply@blogger.com7