03 02 2026

 Started another pic and flummoxed already. Notable fear of finishing something assuaged by having something interesting to move onto to but spending studio time staring at inept sketches... still, Bob back today so unlikely to be doing anything for a while.

29 01 2026

 Galloping on with the Eden picture. Enjoying it far too much. Introduced the walking lions in memory of Bill Norris, seems right for an eden vision (however confused)

26 01 2026

 The other copy finished. Just realised, Id painted in the incoming storm in a prophetic fit, thinking of global stuff, when at lunch yesterday saw a rainstorm racing up a valley. Amazing sight, blotting out the landscape, changing the light -

Started on this. In trying to recall the painting on the wall in my fathers study in Dore Road, found I had some ideas of my own...

23 01 2026

 Here's a done one...

22 01 2026

 Finished one, pleased... woke up raring for the next to find Bob seriously incapacitated. Might get a few hours in later.

19 01 2026

 Poddling on. Sundry interruptions but mostly plain sailing. Rediscovered the iridescent paints, so changes in the copying but an improvement IMHO.

17 01 2026

 

Enjoying this copying so much!! Might start more - or find other paintings not done with - to copy

and in the meantime, for a variety of reasons, was painting the expulsion from Eden. Doing a snake. And this weird shadow arrived on the  ceiling!

Its only the shadow of a light bulb but hey -