There reaches a point when boredom starts to set in with me when creating paintings – when the contradictions that I introduced due to poor techniques in the earlier part of the process become so magnified that I just give up the metaphorical will to live. Well I feel I’ve reached that point with this painting. – Things may change
Still fancy a Yellow iPhone 5C although the faster chip is interesting. But the truth is that there is nothing ground breaking rather than incremental. iOS 7 is the biggy
So the iPhone 5C has been announced and I Haven’t got a clue as to what I think about a product I haven’t seen or held in my hand. No doubt over the days we’ll be bombarded by so called experts who would liked to make you think they know what they are talking about. Yet until the machine is let loose on the wider world no one will really know.
As for my predictions well I guess they were mostly about right – sort of – ish. Which is as good as anyone else
Is this going to plan? What is the plan? I have no answers to these questions nor do I know if this painting is going the way I want it to. On white horse let me ride away indeed.
| Here we go again. Today is the day that Apple announce whatever upgrade to the iPhone is. Will it be 5s or 6 or perhaps something altogether different? Perhaps they might fool everyone and launch a new iPad…now that would be a hoot and demonstrate yet again that the so called ‘experts’ know just about as much as anyone else (this story just about sums the whole situation up http://techland.time.com/2013/09/10/when-the-iphone-experts-speak-ignore-em/)
For me the bigger news will be the launch of the latest version of iOS. This has a much more important impact on Apple going forward as it would set the look and feel of the whole range of products for perhaps the next 5 years. Of course it will also have a built in obsolescence element to it which will mean you have to buy the latest product (think of any iPhone before the 4 or iPad 1) but it also dictate how all the Apple products work together as well as the wider world (iTunes). So for what it is worth I think the new iPhone will have a faster chip, better battery management, more memory as standard and improved photographic software. Beyond that only Apple knows but I suspect there wont be much more than that as much of the improvement in the product will be as a result of iOS 7. But then again what the hell do I know? Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad |
Making a painting is like having an itch and you just can’t get to scratch it. Just as you think you’ve got the point of the irritation it moves and you have to try again. This is the progress to date of a painting that is taking a long time to focus…guess I’ll just keep scratching.
Day two of the itch
Kate
Well I think Orion is starting to really take shape. Not sure if I’ll do any more work on her but I’m reassured that I can still produce some interesting work whilst using Brushes
The first progress capture for a Brushes Painting
After much correction this nude is starting to take form. It is part of my prep work for the next life drawing sessions…I want to try and do a much better fist of things than I did last week. One of the ways to do this is to practice – hence this Brushes painting.
OOh lover boy…
Oh we all have them…days where you just can’t get going. Days where everything is such an effort. Well today is one of them – yesterday everything was so easy – today..well that was the case until I watched another from the wonderful series What do artists do all day. This episode was about the one man show that is John Byrne. The man is clearly a force of nature and I suddenly felt the need to make an image of him.
I have made images of him before and every time it is rewarding. I’ve now finished and suddenly all the energy has washed away but whilst working on this painting I felt alive – now I’m feeling my age. Still the good thing about all this is that I know tomorrow it will be different again. Oh raindrops keep falling on my head.
She really sweet the kind of girl you’d want to meet…
I don’t think I could put it better…this is just what I need to reinstall my faith in my own ability. I ohhh ohhh ohhh…
