Tourist View (Canadian Rockies) oil on paper 100 x 150cm On holiday last year, it took me a week or so to realise I was more interested in photographing tourists blocking the scenery than I was in capturing the iconic views. #CanadianRockies #Painting #Portraiture

Hot sunny day, so nothing better than to creep inside and miss the sun in pursuit of painting. One of those phases where I revisit different techniques in preparation for a series of figurative works examining ambiguity in daily life, and what better subject than the one which greets me unsmiling most days? #Oilpainting #Portraiture #selfportraiture

A few ingredients: 1. Flying visit to Louvre to see the Giotto exhibition 2. A box of crayons lurking in bottom of overloaded bag 3. A fascinatingly textured East Coast placemat 4. An empty quiet carriage 5. A doodle to try out the crayons on the interestingly textured placemat, gradually taking on the form of a Giotto inspired face: those odd grey-green shadows emerging from the under painting. Not quite the same effect with wax crayons. But technical and aesthetic defic

Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait

#Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture

On the point of scuttling out back to car and decided I had time for a quick oil painting. Placed materials and gilt wax on floor, grabbed two brushes, four colours and some turps. Did an agonizingly unflattering but rewarding portrait of self. Is this a return to #adailyselfreflection? #Painting #Portraiture

Just as exciting as finding a new drawing app is the complete overhaul and improvement of an existing app. Art Studio, long one of my favourites, has been magically transformed into an automatically exceptionally touch sensitive app. O seasonal joy. I drew the first thing to hand; the photo of author Michael Connolly on the back jacket of the novel I’m reading!! #digitaldrawing #drawing #Portraiture

#contemporaryart #westbournegrove #Portraiture #digitaldrawing #Identity #urbandrawing #digitalart

#contemporaryart #collage #creativity #Portraiture #dailylife #digitaldrawing #Ipad #urbandrawing #drawing

Westbourne Grove (a portrait of everyday) (detail of collage element) It’s been a while… but things get busy… the drawings are coming thick and fast now. Every one develops in its own manner. it’s strange how the hand is the same but the technique makes so much difference to the outcome. Even working instinctively and intuitively, sometimes from one hour to the next, it’s amazing how differently the work emerges. If you’ve missed the details of the November event in London, l

The Great Escape #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #selfportraiture #Portraiture #digitalart

There is increasing convergence between ideas formulated through this series and those of my blog Life and Art. Increasingly the one is a reflection of the other even if this is not apparent on the surface. #adailyselfreflection #Portraiture #postaday2011 #digitalart #Selfportrait

I thought this would be more of a figure drawing and more ‘finished’ but I stopped because I liked the left eye. #art #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

Half asleep in the dark is never going to be a great look but I’m well beyond great looks these days. #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

Running late every which way this morning so I was set for a chaotic speedy image and the chaos and speed was easy enough but then I tried Clever Things with layer blending and spent as long again recovering the image. #art #adailyselfreflection #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

Sometimes I have no desire to look into the mirror at all, or gaze at a webcam image, and seeing myself in the mind’s eye is as close to reality as any other ‘vision’. #art #adailyselfreflection #digitaldrawings #Portraiture #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

It’s all about not painting enough with real paint but in the fantasyland of iPad apps it’s not a problem. #art #adailyselfreflection #Portraiture #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalart #digitalpainting #Selfportrait

Today I realised I spent yesterday drowning in detail. All I wanted to do today was to be able to take a step back, see the big picture, regain a sense of perspective. I found myself posing in an uncustomary flamboyant manner, and drawing a cloud shape of my occupied space. At one point I felt compelled to go in and detail the face but then backed off and sprayed virtual aerosol spray paint over the features to subdue it within the overall image again. Challenge for today. Re

forcing myself to use a constant line to depict form and volume #adailyselfreflection began when I realised there was a great forum in cyberspace for showing digitally generated work, and I loved the idea that artwork with no tangible existence could be viewed in the exact form in which it had been created. I began with Twitter, and then understood that Twitter was so much more. I found myself on a social media workshop series which I have blogged about in my Life and Art blo