Zinc Yellow Pencil
Oil on linen on MDF
50x150approx
Showing posts with label Pencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pencil. Show all posts
Friday, November 08, 2013
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Mars Stub
Mars Stub
Oil on linen on MDF
30x60mm
I felt like painting a little pencil stub. I never get tired of painting them.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Pencil Sharpened at Both Ends
Pencil Sharpened at Both Ends
Oil MDF
This one should make up for the pencils with no point! One of the reasons I havn't been painting much recently is that I've been pursuing my other passions of music and building things. I'm at present building a stratocaster style guitar. You can read about it here on my Another Day blog if anyone is interested or curious.
My other ongoing project is playing around with music making software, a Digital Audio Workstation or DAW . The technology we have available to us now gives ordinary people like myself something we could only dream of a mere decade ago. It's possible now to have a fully equipped recording studio that would have been worth hundred of thousands of dollars only a few years ago, on a personal computer for only a few hundred dollars! Click here for my Soundcloud page of musical madness and nonesence. I've always loved music as well as painting. I enjoy playing guitar and in recent years have started playing drums. I don't kid myself that I'm particularly good at it, but I enjoy it! And I have reached the time in my life where I come to the sobering realisation that this life is not a dress rehearsal... there's so many things I would like to try my hand at before I'm through..
Painting is the thing I'm good at but I feel totally disenfranchised by the Art World. I'm fiftyfive years old and have been painting for over thirty years now, struggling to get a toe in a door that seems to be permanantly closed to me. I am now capable of producing work that is of very high quality and yet it seems to go largely unnoticed. I still struggle to get shown in real world gallerys which is why I started this blog. So all this is by way of saying that I'm finally through trying. I've been through all the deppression and sense of failure and inevitable bitterness. By deliberately not putting myself in that position of feeling that I "have to paint" because I'm a painter, I feel a lot happier about life than I have been for a long time. There are all these other things that I can do and I don't have to be particularly good at them! It's fun and exciting learning new things!
And so... a pencil sharpened at both ends...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Sans Pencil
Sans Pencil
Oil on Ivory mounted on Rosewood
This one was actually painted before the last one I just posted. I like this one better too, I've got a backlog of paintings I havn't gotten around to posting. It's always difficult thinking up titles and I try not to be too twee. But I remember thinking of the Shakesphere quote from the "all the world's a stage" soliloquy... well, sans teeth sans eyes sans pencil...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Monday, September 03, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Making Ends Meet
Making Ends Meet
Oil on two ceramic tiles
each tile 24x24mm
I initiallly painted the eraserhead and then thought I'd paint the other pointy end as well. They could be displayed seperately or side by side or whatever.... I think it's called "interactive" art...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Moss Green Point
Moss Green Point
Oil on Ivory Piano Key
47x22mm
I thought I'd try something a bit bigger today, so I painted this on an old ivory piano key. It's a beautiful surface to work on for miniatures. Note that no elephants were harmed during the making of this. Well... not recently alive elephants.... I used mongoose brushes which is another endangered species. I covered my hands in white lead just to appease my guilt.
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Other End of the Pencil
Other End of the Pencil
Oil on ceramic tile
24x24mm
This is the other end of the purple pencil I painted the other day...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Green H
Green H
Oil on linen on MDF
75x30mm
There was something spire like and almost spiritual about this pencil - or maybe it's a rocket...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Red F
Red F
Oil on linen on MDF
58x148mm
I've never understood what F represents on pencils. H is hard and B soft and HB is inbetween, so what is F?
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