Isochron Scepter

 I am pleased to say that I did indeed receive 5% of the sale price of "Isochron Scepter" from the very kind collector that auctioned it. I sold it in 2015 for $450 before prices went skyrocketing for MTG artworks. It is very laudable that the seller felt that the artist should receive a cut of the presumably healthy profit and I can only hope that other MTG artists benefit from future sales! Well done that man!

Pump Jacks - stages 2 & 3

 Oooopps! I have forgot to post updates on the painting...

In stage 2 I gave the upper sky a transparent glaze of a mix of Ultramarine Violet and Permanent Orange and then roughed in the landscape with mixes of Burnt Sienna/Winsor Violet and Permanent Sap Green/Winsor Violet.

In stage 3 I have roughed in some clouds with a relatively transparent mix of Ultramarine Violet/Permanent Orange in readiness for tomorrow when I finish the clouds with a more opaque mix of those colours with Manganese Violet and a touch of Warm Light Yellow. I also added a little more orange to the sky to warm it up and intensify the colour a bit.

Happy New Year!

 A big thank you to all the people who have looked at my blog over the past year!

Here is my top nine or whatever it's called of 2021. A productive if somewhat dreary year socially one can only hope for a better year to come although based on past experience every year has it's ups and downs so here's to a 2022 with more ups than downs!

Pump Jacks - stage 1

 I was planning to do a large painting next but I haven't come up with a subject and treatment that I am happy with yet so I thought that I would get on with another Roadside America/The Big Sky painting as I get a bit twitchy when I'm not painting something. There will be a point soon when I show some of these to some USA galleries to see if any of them are interested in representing me although I do have a connection with a gallery in Denver CO so I will show them the new work as well.

The location for this is somewhere near Hagerman in Texas although as usual it will be the sky and the mood that the painting is more about. The ground is painted with my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet and the sky colour is a mix of Permanent Orange and Warm Light Yellow.

Oil on linen 22" x 16".

The Harem Barge of Ali Pasha sold

 I am pleased to see that "The Harem Barge of Ali Pasha" has sold on Every Day Original within minutes of being put up on the site to a collector that already has a number of my paintings already on her walls. I enjoy thinking up these Orientalist fantasies and it's nice to see them snapped up so quickly (yes they are being sold at an attractive price) so let's see what I come up with next for my February 28 slot on Every Day Original.

Oil on linen 16" x 12".

Every Day Original

 "The Harem Barge of Ali Pasha" goes on sale tomorrow December 28 on Every Day Original at 3.30pm EST. Oil on linen 16" x 12".

IX 2022

 I am pleased to see that I have been accepted for the Main Show at IX in Reading PA next year. Quite if it happens or I am able to get there remains to be seen! Although one has to make plans ahead the Covid situation makes everything uncertain and subject to change so .... that's the plan.