A jug

Yes. My photographs do look a bit like painitngs sometimes, tbf. Like most of my photos, it was taken with the (unfulfilled) intention of making a painitng from it.

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

It's a coup. This is the most powerful - and admittedly, frightening - piece I've read yet on what's happening to the US. And very likely to the rest of us soon if we don't do something*.

*"Something" starts with being informed.

broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup

Oh yes, I just figured that out, thank you! I've got a book but I didn't know about the art ones.

So much goodness in one post!

Lovely!

Thank you!

Thanks Martha!

Well kinda. Playing makes me happy, at least.

Me too! One day I'll be able to do it justice.

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.

I had a feeling this was coming. It's why the celebrations of the ceasefire made me sick with worry. It was far too good to be true.

Thank you!

Sunday so some fiddle practice. Plus the weather's awful so staying in by the fire and playing tunes. Today I'm practising Ashokan Farewell. Yes, I know my playing is baggy 😬 I'll get better, honest.

@lowqualitycats.bsky.social Haven't laughed so much at something on social media for a very long time.

Thank you for alerting me to this profound source of hilarity @chromamagic.com

Thank you. Seriously the best thing I've seen on social media for a very long time. I'm off back for another look.

Important.

I hope they got the bit about the high chroma in the shadows!

Thank you! Sometimes painting with the cameras off is necessary to focus better.

It is nearly a painting though!

Thank you !

Sandpaper pan scrub spatula knife. Maybe one or two bushes too.

Final stage on the quince painting. This is 10 x 8, oils and cold wax medium. I mention the medium just because. It made a lot of the texture and it sounds cool to say it.

I think a lot about an interview I heard with Ben Ferencz, who was the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a lifelong human rights activist. He lived to be 103 and was working
to the end. He talked about progress as the work of lifetimes. Of knowing you won’t reach your goal in your life.

Bizarre!

I will anyway, but if there was any doubt, this would be enough by itself to keep me going. Thank you.

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

Yes it’s a set back . A major one . But we cannot give up . Not now , not ever . In the UK I’m campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship , because for too long these companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations . No more .

I agree. Hard to remember that sometimes.

So beautiful.

Given that the world appears to be ending I feel strangely proud that I managed to paint today. Session three, no plan, but there will definitely be at least one more session. A quince.

#oilpainting #'stilllife #realistpainting