A wide-angle shot of my studio space this morning. It looks like it's a mess. Light is streaming in from the upper right. A variety of paintings are strewn along the left-hand side of the space. Figurative work, geometric doodles, geometric cyphers, pure abstract works and blank boards and canvases Dotted throughout the studio are one or two toys, containers, bricks, a random hat and some storage To be honest, looking at the photo I feel like I need to find Wally (Waldo for our friends in the US)

A bare corner of my studio in which I have placed 3 sets of shelving.

A shot of the left-hand side of my studio space. Lengths of 2x4 have been attached to the plasterboard. In the foreground to the extreme left is my lovely cardi which has daisies on it.

A wide-angle shot of my studio as of Friday. I've pushed all my artwork and bags and boxes and detritus back into the space. The next step is to organise it all.

The studio is coming together. I put these shelves up myself. I wish I hadn't as I got splinters in my bum.

Being the DIY god I am it took me forfuckingever. No swearing though. Lots of confusion and looking for stuff I just had in my hand.

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This one is almost as big as me!

This Jubilant Haze
Acrylic on canvas
100cm x 80cm, unframed
£700 ex. shipping

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A 5 minute figure study completed at Wednesdays Lifedrawing class in KIAC studios on Ball Street Sheffield. The figure is seated and is shown against a warm grey background. I'm really happy with the head and legs and the fact I got the proportions correct effortlessly. My other works from the same session all show proportion inconsistencies. A head will be too small, limbs will stretch or shrink to fit. I think I got over confident with my abilities after this one. I also think I began focusing too much on the fun I was having.

The same image from the previous picture. Now however I have painted the background cadmium red. The formlessness of the hands and the lack of feet distressed me. So much so that after I took the photo I painted some in. I will see tomorrow if I like the result.

Development of the life drawing works from Wednesday (19th March 2025)

I'm adding coloured backgrounds and correcting proportions. Or attempting to at least.

I think my boards need to be narrower.

I will use primed paper next session. It's cheaper.
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An abstract painting. The hues used are warm. The painting is not finished. Currently, the background is a yellow hue with red areas on the top and along the left-hand side. The word STONE is written in yellow ocher towards the bottom right. Other 'S' like letters are seen in the top right and bottom left. A burnt umber has been used towards the centre. Some blue is used as an accent colour throughout the work.

A square abstract painting. This is currently unfinished. Muted hues that tend towards purple and grey are in the background. In the foreground reds, ochers and peaches have been used. Lines of yellow are within the work adding tiny focal points for the eye.

This is a bit difficult to describe. I think I'm finished with it. The painting is 60cm x 60cm. It has hexagon elements on it that give a sense of structure. The hexagons are blue green and white. The drawn structure of the hexagons can be seen. Along the top, the left-hand side and bottom a pale cold grey has been used. The bottom right edge uses a wash of orange and red that feels rust like. There is a slight echo of this on the top left edge. The hexagons hold a fairly central position. On the grey areas a variety of harsh chaotic black and burnt umber marks have been made. They have a discordant and disordered sense of structure. To my eye, these more chaotic, monochromatic elements seem to be consuming the more structured and colourful hexagonal elements. What do you think?

Some works in progress from last week that I'm fairly happy with. I'll be in the studios tomorrow, so I'm taking today to do some urgent admin and gardening and house work. (I also needed a break from the controlled nature of the hexagon cyphers)
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l/t/ny/g//nstf//r 60cm x 60cm Emulsion on mdf The image shows a dynamic arrangement of hexagons. The dynamism comes from the stark contrasts between the black and lighter sections. The hexagons are in the process of being covered in masking tape to achieve sharp painted lines. As stated in the text along with the image, the hexagons have encoded a short section of 'the litany against fear' from Dune by Frank Herbert.

This is a process shot. It shows the board covered in green masking tape and blue (royal sapphire) paint. The next stage will be to cover the blue and black sections for the final colour.

This image shows the painting propped against the studio wall. In front of it a note book containing the encoding patterns. The text from 'The litany against fear' I've encoded is "I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer" The colours used are referencing the colours of the house Atradies. The painting will most likely require another coat of paint in each colour, but I will nor need to remark the work for this. Hopefully. ....

Yesterday's studio work. Today I'm mostly avoiding housework . But I will crack on with it in a bit. Maybe.
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This is a homage to Dune. I use an adapted version of the litany against fear often and I find it helps.

St/p 60 cm x 60cm Household wall paint on mdf. The image shows a board covered in hexagons. Each Hexagon is divided into six wedges and has a number of 'rings' For example a 16 cm wide hexagon would have 8 rings. ( each ring is 2cm wide) The background of the painting is painted in parama violet. Sections of the Hexagon are painted in fairytale punk. The upper section of the artwork has green masking tape on it, and splodges of pink. The masking tape is to keep the lines of each section sharp.

A view of my workstation.. The image shows the pink painting 'St/p' resting against the studio wall. On the table a variety of tools and drawing implements are casually strewn. We can see a note book with designs in it, rulers, masking tape and a white chopping board covered in black guide lines and green masking tape.

ST/P The image shows the art work with the masking tap removed. The main colours are the Violet, pink and a grey. The art work is a bit grubby. The reason it took so long to do this is each of the hexagons were drawn with inadequate tools. This meant although the hexagons were generally okay, but not good enough when I needed precision, in angles and parallel lines. I was forced to rework the angles as I went. Which was not fun. But it has been dine and the rest of it .... should be easy... We shall see.

8 and a half hours masking up this board yesterday. Just putting the masking tape on.
Swearing happened. Lots. Soon it will be finished.

Today in contrast, i masked up a board, painted it and painted up the pink work, and I got home for 4.
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The image shows a section of one of my paintings. It also shows the hues that are to complete the image. Stewart Semples Mattest black, Royal Sapphire and Jewel Green.

ST/P (wip and currently on its side) 60cm x 60cm The image shows the paintings progress from last week. Not much to add other than the colours used are detailed on the next picture. This is a learning curve for me. How to do this more efficiently and neatly.

A section of the last painting. I'll need to neaten up edges on this. However I have developed a technique that should give me neater edges. The pallet used is Parama Violet for the background, fairytale (pink) and to be added finally maroon. I'm hoping to speed up now I have a system in place that feels like a work flow.

Today in the #studio, there was much slicing and pasting of masking tape. The #HexEncodings are looking good.

I may resent the time spent masking up. However I can't argue with the sharpness of the lines. (When I don't mess it up)
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A hand reaching out to an abstract structure. The structure has extreme 2 point perspective. The painting is unfinished and untitled.

A hexagonal vivid pink squiggle on a vibrant orange ground. The pink line weaves around parts of the hexagon. It is a labyrinth with one way in and out. The painting is textured and appears swiftly painted. The work is unfinished. (I photographed it upside down too, but shhhhhh!!)

Work from the studio, today. They are both fairly small. The greenish one is round A3, the labyrinth in pink and orange and about 10" x 10". The labyrinth contains a message.

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Cypher key that uses DNA bindings of U C A G. Depicted as a 4 tables with proteins produced. It's on isometric paper and very scrawled.

Isometric blocks shaded with black and white Crosshatch. The image is dense and appears heavy. A sentence is encoded as a cypher within the construction.

Code and writing systems on isometric paper. Depicted is the writing system of Ogham and the knock code. Again this is a very messy scrawled text.

More methods of encoding. Depicted are musical staves with an octave that corresponds to 8 bits of data in binary. A segment of an idea to use the I Ching to create cypher systems and another reference to DNS proteins. The image is very untidy with many repetitions of ideas

Last night's drawing and thinking. Looked at different code and cypher systems.

Thinking about using Minecraft to create virtual 3d versions.
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