Today, 11 years ago, Nicole and mine’s daughter Rhiannon came into the world. From the very beginning we called her our special girl and have adored her. I think that as a parent I grieve the passing of each stage of her life as much as I rejoice the new stage. Therefore I miss the baby I held in my arms all those years ago,
Spent two hours today slowly… ever so slowly… decorating my spaceship. Have not got too far, but wondered how many of you out there can guess the artist who is my source of inspiration for this work. As a clue, he’s a spaceship
(Expect a long nostalgic egotistical introduction followed by me talking about my irrational fear of Blender – yes, I am self-indulgent! 🙂
Because of my poor eyesight I don’t use live models and have a tendency not to think overly much about their profession. However a lot of
So Sunday afternoon Rhiannon (my 10 year old daughter) says to me “Dad, will you paint with me?” Naturally I was thrilled by the idea, only… … I had nothing in mind that I could paint. Back track. If you look at my art you will notice a couple of things. Firstly, my paintings are either portraits or landscapes. Usually I take a photo and paint that. Secondly,
Today my local cemetery opened its gates, not to let zombies out but to let sight-seers in. Those zombies that did get out were completely unintentional! My wife, always the more macabre of the two of us (hard to believe, eh?), decided to visit. So we all did. I was frustrated that we somehow missed the display of medieval warfare (yes, it’s a rather unusual cemetery) but I ended up
Easter Friday and my family and I hopped onto a train and headed into Sydney. Yes, the sky looked decidedly miserable and treated us to not a few drops, but we were happy enough. Good old Sydney rain at Easter! Today we visited my mum. Mum lives alone in a unit (flat or apartment according to which variation of English you use). She likes living close to a city; above
Hi all, By now many of my longer-running readers would probably be wondering where went all the promises of easily-made but professional looking art. So here is one for you guys. The following picture was made in about 30 minutes and required very little skill on my part. Yet I must admit that I really quite like it. The character is Asype, the Western Pilot of Shade. He is a
Sorry, it’s a bit of a day for posting more than once. Doris kindly sent me her signature and I have added it with my own on the picture.
Ok – here it is. Drum roll please… Hope you like it 🙂 Greg
