Layla II, 2020 time-lapse

LAYLA II, 2020

Layla II, 2020

oil on canvas

58 x 57.5 cm.

I had to paint Layla's jewellery in..

Without it just wasn't right.

I've also updated the catalogue entry for this painting..

LAYLA I, 2019

Layla I, 2019
oil on canvas
120 cm. diameter

Layla1-8: Tell me Easter's on Friday..

Almost done.. :

Layla1-7: Party fears two?

I was having trouble deciding whether or not to keep the balloons. 

Thankfully I have available to me graphics manipulation tools! (what a time to be alive etc..):

I think that dispute is now well and truly settled.

Layla1-6: Working...

Layla1-5: Work is progressing

Layla1-4: Happy New Year!

At some point on NYE I decided I was going to finish some of the paintings I have lying around the place. So I started with LAYLA I and the first act was to completely change the composition:

Layla1-3

Layla1-2

Layla1-1

o o o

Modern cat revisited

I didn't realise that when I used the LOLbuilder on ICANHAZCHEESEBURGER that the image would become available to other users to caption. Sure enough, someone did...

Who's BOB? Not this one, surely...

I took the day off work

I couldn't be fucked going to the office. It was pouring with rain outside and all I could bring myself to do was loll around on the carpet with the Layla, paint, and sleep. So I had a word to my boss...





Nice to have a stack of annual leave up ones sleeve, what.

In the beginning

In the beginning was the Modern Cat. And so it was that the Modern Cat made her countenance shine upon me, and she said:


So it came to pass that I unpacked my box of paints, my brushes, my palette knives, my gesso, my gun stapler, my drop sheets, and all my other accoutrements, and cast from mine mind all psychological remnants of the vile behemoth whom had taken away all mine confidence last year... and I got busy.