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!)….

Paintbook Twoo/7

…and then I wondered what it it would look like if I painted circles within circles over a circled background….

…oh…

…it looks like that….

Circled Skull Purple

…last colour of the rainbow…

…last skull of the batch…

….only two more sets planned at this stage….

….(only?)….

Circle Skull Indigo

….the name of the base colour is paua…

…(pronounced pau-uh dear foreigners)

…(this one is my favourite)…

…(or maybe it’s the red one)…

Circled Skull Blue

…blue blue…

…circled blue…

…that’s the colour of my room…

…where I will live…

…in circled skullers….

…(saxophone solo)…

…(sorry Dave)…

Circled Skull Green

…number four in the series of seven….

…(damn…that last shot is blurry!)…

…(but illustrative…..right?)….

People Often Ask Me

…what’s with all the cardboard skulls, Tony?…

…(yeah, you’re right…what with covid, lockdowns and long, I ain’t seen people for years)….

…(do you think it shows in my work?)…

…(all things considered, those were all rhetorical questions)….

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….

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…

Even Further Adding

….to my two previous offerings….

…just some skulls and bones…

…and some more…

…and some more…

…and some more…

…is that enough?…

…I’m not sure I should be the judge….