Lupin :heart_eyes_emoji:

Started something new: a portrait of Shannon's cat Lupin:

She's a beauty...

It's Friday evening and I'm starting another portrait of Obbly..

The source picture is a printout of a photo of a photo of a photo of a (Polaroid) photo which I took of her in 1999 and which is lost -- like all Roy Batty's moments and Obbly herself -- in time. She was also the source for The eyes of a killer, 2001 and appeared (twice) in Self-portrait as Noburo Kuroda's kitten, 2001.

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Getting some new pieces up and running..

It feels so good to have the house smelling of linseed oil again.. :)

Using up some oil paint left on the palette...

Listening to Bruckner "Mass nr 2 in E minor" and Signer's new album

o o o

Lying in bed and really enjoying looking at assorted works on the wall. The one in the middle is a oil-pastel work on paper by Daniel Phillips.

Archaengle Thunderbird Cerberus

Something I am starting out on:

Smoke, tombstone

Often when I finish a work, I have some paint left over.

And so it goes...

I had spent a few days stretching canvases on a number of stretchers that I had scattered around the place. This included ripping the canvas off a couple of shit paintings from last year, and also stretching over and gluing canvas to some wooden boards that also used to be (shit) paintings, from a looooong time ago.

I hate painting on board for some reason.

Anyhow, I just spent all weekend gessoing and prepping the canvases:


One, two, three layers of gesso on the face, two on the sides, and two sealing the back. On top of that, two layers of thin(nish) yellow (Cadmium Yellow Light) acrylic.

I now have 15 supports of various sizes. The largest must be a good 800mm square. Some of them already have random underpainting on them.