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 | Proper nonsense is good. This derivative from a seed head is nonsense, but its good. Well, now I look at the image on my database I see it is not the final version, so it is better than you see it here! ... |
04-05-2012
Word count: 130
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This painting has just been sold, it has found its place to be.
It harks back to the early days when I sought to describe the sense or feeling of being alive. The unconscious gyroscopic ... |
28-11-2011
Word count: 155
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 | The earlier state of this is 'the gentle head' and after some initial revisions it was left to one side. Today, with most of my Redleaf show work resolved and images for the exhibition invitations settle... |
18-07-2011
Word count: 153
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strong wind & bright sun - both drying and energizing.
I make and paint a rough wood collage of drawing no 14. (below)
challenging colours already laid down with conviction, needing the laid colo... |
23-05-2011
Word count: 123
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 | Here, a Friday night solution, the umpteenth solution to the challenge of painting a head for this recycled frame.
Looking again at my previous work it just needed more contrast and surprise while at th... |
08-04-2011
Word count: 93
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This beautiful Baroque frame was destitute, broken and on it's way to a landfill site. Even though it is only a cast reproduction I took pity on it, next thing it found it's way into my workshop to be ... |
18-02-2011
Word count: 228
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it's easy not to work!Rabbit+cabbage, wine, warm autumn (apples and raisins) compote, dark chocolate and coffee all tend to reduce available energies from the mature man in the evening.
So, cran... |
05-02-2011
Word count: 194
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Using other ways to work help to break log jams in the thinking.Habit, routine and muscle memory are confounded, change is inevitable! One spring I devised a way of painting heads in the wood, . . . . ... |
06-10-2010
Word count: 369
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More is not better.Desperation sees 24 heads knocked out in ink to break a logjam in my thinking. But volume and speed did not throw me a variable I could use.The truth is that the hand & mind are ... |
19-05-2010
Word count: 133
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The development of ideas can be a slow business.They cannot be rushed.The drawing shown could be a bust, it is the most likely candidate from the batch of drawings from yesterday evening. I would like ... |
11-05-2010
Word count: 189
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