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Now I know she was only 36 when she died, my god 36 and it is 50 years since she died and yet here she is probably more powerful than she ever was! Anyway as I was drawing this I suddenly realised that this might have been how she might have looke… Continue reading →

My friend’s daughter has asked to make a drawing of Marylyn Monroe as a birthday present and so this morning I started searching for Monroe and it soon became apparent there is no true image of the late star. Every photograph is a manipulation of … Continue reading →

So much for burying him at Leicester Cathedral which is just spitting distance from where the remains were discovered. But the reality is that if this is Richard 3rd, and I think that is still a huge if, then he should be buried with all honours o… Continue reading →

So the latest iPhone has arrived and Apple has maintained their tradition of making things a little better but no great earth shakers. Of course Apple will argue that the all new iPhone 5 is the most important phone they have ever made which of co… Continue reading →

A pretty standard Guardian piece bitchy with faint praise and admiration. But only the Guardian would think that Luton is ‘ the North ‘ Boris Johnson is no laughing matterhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/12/boris-johnson-no-laughin… Continue reading →

There comes a time when I am using Brushes that boredom sets in. I know the work isn’t anywhere nears as I would really want it but the sterile, inanimate nature of using the iPad finally gets too much and I can’t take anymore. Well I have just re… Continue reading →

Last night I started to rematch one of my favourite movies, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and this has inspired me to try and make a Brushes painting. After just over an hour this morning has got me this far. I think it is time for lunch and think ab… Continue reading →

After watching the very watchable series by Alistair Sook on the art of ancient Rome I became aware of the cult of Antinous. Now I was aware of Antious but not of his significance in the gay community nor as a cult figure throughout the Roman empi… Continue reading →