A diversion

Play silly buggers with the Doctor Who theme.

A turn up for the books

I was feeling a bit hungover and unmotivated, but I've received an email that seems to say I'm a finalist in the 2005 Waikato National Summer Award. I entered Painting and smoking, which features on the front page of my website.

It hasn't worked out quite how I planned it

I haven't done any work today. Basically I've got tomorrow to pull the stops out. Today hasn't been too good at all. Valium and wine and Johnny Cash.

Slacko

After a reasonably good day on Saturday, I only did a couple of finishing things to the city painting I gave to my mother for her 60th birthday yesterday. So far today all I've been doing is sitting in the sun reading a book. It looks as if it might be clouding over, so maybe I'll get something done this arvo. I'm not sure quite what though - I suppose probably Skeleton Guys. I've also got to decide what to do with the objects one. I kind of like it all line and no colour, but I don't think I can really leave it like that.

Decisions, decisions...

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