Blind contour drawing over and over within confined boundaries of an oddly angled face. Released from any need for likeness. Always a...

Back to paint. Still messing with stuff that’s been up on the walls for months. I’m away for a few days now, but I always seem to get an...

Just how hard can it be to pull one decent print from a lino cut I’m happy with? Hours, is the answer. Hours, when the printer to print...

It’s no excuse but I can’t begin to explain how hard it is to do any work when additional children appear on the horizon. It was an...

Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid...

Back on track. Focussed, experimenting, messing with different papers and colours to decide how finally I’m going to do this print which...

Sometimes all you can do is doodle. Sitting in on a piano lesson, I’m supposed to be making notes. I make the notes in my sketch book...

Sometimes the fun comes from saying to yourself “Right, as fast as you can, line only, with this biro which is the only tool to hand,...

Transport, wifi and charging issues conspired to prevent this going out earlier, but that’s all part of daily fail anyway. I was limited...

Back on track now fighting linoleum with blunt tools. Not good. Luckily I’m traveling down to London tomorrow and will hopefully be able...

A minimalist daily fail today. Minimal work and minimal in appearance for the moment. I was distracted from the task I was supposed to...

Excellent. A proper, irritating daily fail today. Found it very hard to move on the new project for this week which is a comparatively...

Well, I got to where I needed to be today. I’ve learned a huge amount from the whole project; it’s been great fun; it’s taken me to...

A day of complete and utter frustration and pointless activity which all had to be abandoned at 6.30pm. Lessons learned? There is NO...

Typically on a week where I have to seriously work to a stream of specific results, I have had days interrupted by pick ups and music...

Ah, the joy of an unexpectedly glorious “failure”. I was trialling the opalescent screen and shadow puppets today. It’s fair to say I had...

I’ve realized I just cannot resist temptation to create a decent image of the non-sketchbook explorations. This cam experimenter called...

Absurd to make a to do list for a weekend when I’m away and then think I can make something happen. Particularly when the to do list...

Confronting the dreaded hands. Pages of drawing required so I can move to the watercolor drawing with fluid, instinctive lines and...

#dailyfail #23 I hope if you click here you will see some of today’s playing about. It’s harder than you might think to have something...