Last night's efforts

Here we go

This was playing around on canvasboard while gesso dried:



This is going to have a few more layers of colour added, but it gives you the general idea:



And, yes, that is sunlight coming through the window, difficult though it may be to believe for those who have experienced the Welly summer of late.

Blah

I'm house-sitting for my friends Steve and Anna at the moment - just me and their two crazy cats. I've got a stack of canvases and a stack of reference books and a shitload of paint. I'm waiting for the gesso to dry on a couple of non-Skeleton Guy paintings. I want to see how they turn out before deciding whether to do some more of those or some more SGs. Hopefully there'll be some pics later today...

And yet a-goddamn-nother

Nice

Cuba's put up some big billboards in front of some yank office there - pictures from Abu Ghraib, a swastika, and the word 'fascistas'.

And another

Studio views

In the interests of making those viewing this on dial-up's download speed as slow as possible, here's some more pics:

Historic

Yesterday was the last day of smoking in pubs.

French art blog

This is what it's all about. Some French guy scans in his sketchbook and sticks it up for all to see. That sucker's going in the links.

Street art

Rose has started a new blog documenting Wellington street art.