Just a thought about Max Fac…

This could be a country lane anywhere in the UK.   Nothing out of the ordinary and really nothing to see.   Unfortunately, come the 30th March next year this will be the border between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Union.

Same as this.

And this.

Everytime I hear a Brexiteer talking about a no deal they always try to reassure people that all we are doing is reverting to our trading position before we entered the EU – back then it was called the Common Market.   However, in 1973 these lanes would have been blocked on the Northern Ireland side and there would have been army patrols along the whole of the border.   Also in 1973 253 people were killed as a result of this border being in existence oh and the patrols weren’t that effective!

So next time you hear someone banging on about no deal Brexit just spare a thought for the Irish on both sides of the border between the European Union and Great Britain and then ask how a no deal brexit will deal with this border?

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I want it that way….

I have no idea how I’m going to paint this.  This should be interesting…I think?

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A bit of sh*t day….

Some days are good, others less so.  Today was a less so day.  Hopefully things will be better tomorrow so to try and unwind I spent fines minutes making this sketch.  It pleased me.

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Winter is here!

 

Last week I wrote a post about the last images of Autumn I would make.  Unfortunately whether it was the onset of senility or stupidity I thought that the end of November was last Sunday!   However almost as soon as I posted that I realised my error but I thought I would keep it to remind me of  of my own hubris (although I don’t believe any deity was involved just me getting ahead of myself.)   So as I write this it really is winter, well at least as far as I am concerned, so these are the last images of Autumn as they were definitely captured on the 30th November 2018 at Kedleston Hall..

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I think that’s about it…

There reaches a point in any painting that you can’t take it any further.   Many times the whole thing has collapsed under weight of the decisions made during the creation of the work.  Other times you just know enough is enough.   Well I think I have reached that point with this.  No more tinkering…honest!

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Not a bad start to the month…

The latest painting I’m working on…December is only 6 hours 36 minutes where I am when writing this but thanks to the joys of insomnia I have been able to really start to work on this painting.

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Goodbye to another autumn…

Well that was the autumn that was.   For me autumn ends on the last day of November so I spent this afternoon trying to capture a few images to celebrate(?) the end of another autumn.   Now for the hard grind of winter which I used to love but now I’m not so sure.   But at least we have Christmas to liven things up a bit so that is good.

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Variation on a theme…

A long long time ago when Lotus 1-2-3 was a thing I bought myself a copy of the then cutting edge graphics package Corel Draw, I’m not sure whether it was 3 or 4.   It came with a CD disk full of clip art which I found mind blowing.   Just how could such things be created?  I hadn’t got the first clue.   Fast forward nearly 25 years or so I now find myself creating similar art (of course they were vector graphics rather than the raster I am making) and I sometimes wonder how I got here?   I haven’t got the first clue – it certainly wasn’t planned.

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We climb onto the roof…

The first beautiful frosty dawn this morning and was stuck in doors.   I could have risked things but I am just getting over a cold so discretion was best.   Instead I made this graphic novel John.C.Reilly drawing.   Not the worst trade off in the world.

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The latest book…

 

So I’ve just published my latest book – The first ten thousand.   It contains 52 images from the first 10,000 images I captured with my A7 Mk.2.   Not bad going seeing as I have a heavy cold at the moment.   Poor me!

Click here to see the preview.

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