Circles

….within circles….

…on circles….

….on a circular base….

….(so over painting the circles)….

…(but have one more piece on the go and two more in the planning stage)…

….(circles!)….

Circled Skull Red

…it’s a skull covered in circles….

…the background colour is red…

…painted in instalments whilst under the influence of post covid fatigue….

…(getting better every day)…

…(but still painting circles)…

Paintbook Twoo/6

…instead of doing a page for each colour grouping…

…as per the previous post….

…I did this….

…maybe I’m destined to paint circles….

….lots and lots of colourful circles….

Paintbook Twoo/5

…”maybe I’ll try that circle thing in monotone”…

….that was the premise….

…here’s the result….

…the queue for the “50 shades” quips starts here…..

Paintbook Twoo/4

…it may not look like it form recent sketchbook posts, but…

…ever since I had the covid all I can paint is circles…..

…lots and lots of cicles…

…over and over again….

…in a variety of colours…

…(thankfully)….

5 of 5

…last of that 2022 art arc…

….yes, that’s hand stamped….

…and it’s backwards….

…but this one isn’t….

…and you’d like to read it?….

…ok…

….yep…

…both pieces ruled out in little squares and each letter stamped once left to right then once right to left….

….rinse and repeat….

….2052 characters and spaces per piece….

…took for ages….

…oh, and the paired pieces lean away from their “mirrored” counterparts for two reasons…

…one :- in my mind it gives the impression that the pattern continues beyond the given edge (discovered because the patterns looked to boxy in paintbook)…

…two :- I felt that the larger pen pieces were heading in the opposite direction from what I really really wanted to do….the larger painted pieces!…

….all hung and photographed in procession on the only wall in the house where I wouldn’t have to remove a million pieces of wall baggage to accomodate them (did have to shift the recycled ply hoard…probably shouldn’t have that in my boudoir, but, you know, hoarding!)…or stand on the end of the bed (unmade)…

…now all I have to do is get them out of the house…

Further To My Previous Offering

..onto the next two…

…but first….

…remember this from way back in February last year?…

…it’s a colour guide for these….

…same pattern as last post…

…and yes…

…the colours on one piece mirror the colours on the other….

…oops…blurry….

…but you get the idea…

…right?…

…(please don’t make re-take the pic’s…it took for ages!!..and was exhausting)….

Stuff I Finished Last Year

…alternatively titled “Stuff I Spent All Of Last Year Making”….

…”but was too sick to finish, frame and photograph till now”

…the frames are 865mm x 620mm…

…they (all 10 of them) are in “matched” pairs…

…some of the photos aren’t great because – long-covid-brain….

…but hopefully they’ll give you the idea….

…now to build up enough steam to maybe organise an exhibition…

…(…er…with long-covid-brain….who am I kidding?!!?…might take me a long while….)…

…(but stay tuned just in case)….

Paintbook Twoo/3

…holy crap…

…I haven’t posted a paintbook page since before I had covid….

…that’s like September last year!….

….and this is what covid did to my painter brain….

…was going to try and emulate the background-circle effect as seen in the last post….

…with something in the fore ground…

…covid brain neglected to process that in sketchbook I was doing the foreground first and the circles were generating from points on said foreground, not appearing as a fixed/regimented background….

…like the one I’d just finished producing….

…over two pages…

…mmm… thank you covid brain….

…(at least I know I can paint circles, right?)…

Paintbook Twoo/2

…trying to find time to do more in this crisp new book…

…hoping that quitting shit-job will accomodate that!….

…(…yeah…I know…what about eating money?…)….