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Painting with Acrylic on Canvas

23rd July 2023 Blown Periphery 2207 Comments

In the final part of this series before I move onto etchings, I’m doing a piece on painting with acrylic paint onto a stretched frame canvas. The principles apply just as well for oil painting, [more…]

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Painting with Watercolours

16th July 2023 Blown Periphery 5302 Comments

To give everyone a rest from the military stuff, I thought I’d share one of my ways of retreating from the stresses of life, politics, the media and people. Watercolour painting is a good starting [more…]

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Drawing With Pastels

30th April 2023 Blown Periphery 11000 Comments

In part two of this series I’d like to introduce the joys and messiness of drawing with soft pastels. The pastels I use are chalk based, although some are oil-based and therefore more like crayons. [more…]

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Ships That Pass

22nd November 2021 Always Worth Saying 3782 Comments

Two Rascals I looked down on a thunderstorm. The distant lights of late evening Manhattan were being complimented. Clouds beneath me luminesced with staccato lightning flashes above a rain-lashed Long Island. 1988 had ended badly. [more…]

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More Artwork 2021, Part One

8th April 2021 Going Postal 3688 Comments

It’s been a while since my last article on items of art we’ve purchased for our new home and I thought some of you Puffins would like to see some of the latest pieces, having [more…]

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Art in Cocklecarrot (Not Cocklecroft) Towers, Part Six

21st October 2020 Going Postal 3343 Comments

“Come and get me, copper!” East End saying Dark doings in murky waters open Part 6. Specifically- The attempted theft of dozens of priceless artworks from under my very nose! I regret to advise Mrs [more…]

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Art in Cocklecarrot (not Cocklecroft) Towers, Part Five

14th October 2020 Going Postal 3125 Comments

“A little injustice in the heart can be drowned by wine; but a great injustice in the world can be drowned only by the sword” Epigrams of Chang Ch’ao This part of the mould-breaking series [more…]

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Art in the Cocklecroft Towers, Part Four

7th October 2020 Going Postal 3694 Comments

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money” Samuel Johnson In the comments on Part 2, I was truly saddened to see Tachy, one of the foremost  intellects on this site, ally with [more…]

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Art in the Cocklecroft Towers, Part Three

30th September 2020 Going Postal 3286 Comments

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” William Hazlitt I hope [more…]

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