Teaching an old dog…

For reasons I have no intention of going into here I have just bought myself a new camera and lens – not an entirely unheard of pattern of behaviour on my part.   However at the same time my rather ancient copy of Adobe Lightroom stopped working – I don’t think the two are connected but you never know (Is that just a little bit too much InfoWars?).   The upshot of this is that over the past few days I have been trying to master upgrades to my technology.   Now this isn’t a problem it is just that I wasn’t expecting to have to do this all at once.   Oh and there were problems with the Adobe licensing which meant having contact with the aforementioned software support system (They were actually very helpful but nonetheless added to complexity of the situation yesterday).

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Hater’s goin’ play play play

Feeling much better today…still had time make a painting – 3/4 finish I think?

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Breathe…

Getting old is really shit!   I am told that my body is no older than 7 years as cells are constantly being replaced – its my DNA is just screwed up as over the years it picks all sort of crap.   Well let me tell you it can keep all that crap!

To top all this I just can’t believe what the President of the USA has just done – sided with a foreign country over the one he is supposed to be leading.  Hasn’t helped my mood but then again I always thought he was an idiot so I guess we are getting exactly what I expected.  Doesn’t make it any easier.

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And there we are….

 

If there is one thing that I have learnt from watching Westworld is that the self appointed experts on the Internet who who give previews and reviews of each episode haven’t got the first clue what they are talking about.   Entertaining, in parts, yes but hardly informative. It seems we might have to wait until 2020 to find out what the next season has to offer – perhaps.

 

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She’ll got exposure…

There was a time, not too long ago, when I would write a lot about the current political situation then it struck me – what is the point?   I don’t mean that nobody listened – I always took that as a given – no what is the point when things are so mixed up that trying to make sense of anything now is a fool’s task.   Now I am probably a fool, I certainly have done many foolish things in my life, but the situation we now find ourselves in even a fool wouldn’t recognise; Brexit, Trump and world slowly going off it’s hinges have I missed anything?   Probably but I no longer care.  Instead I’m just going to stick to making art in my own way and if the many Outlook followers I now have will just have to live with that.

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Rhythm is…

Its a passion…

 

People feel it everywhere…

 

You can feel it…

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The Life Of….

I’ll be the guiding light…

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As we Fall to Earth

This time last year I suffered an infection in my leg.   Fast forward and it is an infection in my hand.   Nothing too serious but it does make you appreciate the days when there are now problems…the older I get those days are fewer and further apart.

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To see if he…

After a break it was back out on the Ironstone Benefice trail yesterday with the artist David Manley.   It was a hard slog and at times I wasn’t sure were going to be able to finished the day – fortunately we were able to obtain substance from the excellent Rutland Arms at Bottesford.  This helped us greatly.   It is a hard life but someone has got to live it!

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Sitting by the pool…

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