8''x8'', oil on gessoboard, SOLD

I’m beginning to run out of blue paint!  Not being  the nimble athlete I once was (well actually, never was), I hurled my daughter over a farm gate to filch the last of these at the weekend where some still  lingered tenaciously on some lower branches.  Next week I’ll hurl her over another gate to get some sloes and then might hurl myself down to the off-licence to get some gin to steep them in after painting.  Better order some more blue paint.   I remember as a child thinking that his beverage was called Slow Gin and wondering why – that’s what comes of growing up in the city.

On another note,  I came across a ‘portrait’ of myself on the internet the other day!  An excellent artist/blogger in America called Carol Marine had asked for people to send in pictures of themselves  pulling funny faces.  I immediately jumped to the challenge knowing that I had a lot of them stored away after a dreadful artschool project.  Anyway, its worth a look if only to read her story and the amazing amount of comments she received following it on the subject of sticking to your guns.  I’m not sure I should advocate you looking at such an unflattering, if accurate, depiction of me, beautiful though the paintwork is.   Oh, and the other bit of her story is that recently her home in Texas burnt down with all her possessions in it.  She and her family just sighed, piled in the car and moved to Oregon – amazingly positive thinking.  I could do with a bucket of that.  If you paint I would definitely advise reading her blog, there’s a lot of good stuff on it.  If you don’t paint there are a lot of great paintings.  It also shows how important comments are 🙂