Doing some work on my large drawing today, the one based on ripples in water. I’ve added egg tempera paint, made with egg yolk, pigment and water – a most magical substance with a beautiful surface and shine. Just mixing it is such a pleasure!

Doing some work on my large drawing today, the one based on ripples in water. I’ve added egg tempera paint, made with egg yolk, pigment and water – a most magical substance with a beautiful surface and shine. Just mixing it is such a pleasure!
Imagining today the things that we do – rippling outwards in intersecting circles. A video that I made yesterday, walking out in the rain:
Making maquettes of scroll forms in watercolour this evening – working from memories of making the short film yesterday.
And on the mountain – at Garn Goch near Ammanford. Looking down.
a video for today
a video snippet, turbulence behind a tree stump in the river
I did a little bit of drawing and watercolour today, based on memory of the rushes on the mountain in the wind, being flexible to their conditions.
Such a day that this has been – unfocussed, muddled, long. I trust that somewhere in the mess something good is hidden. It started well, and there is a haiku in these photos, or rather in what I saw when I took them first thing this morning. I just need a bit of time to […]
Ash, evening light and oak, morning light.
works in progress on the bench – carrying on with watercolours, for my collaborative work with Suzie Ross – text transcribed from the small joys that I collected a few weeks ago from friends a very lovely and simple one: “collecting blackberries this morning from a bridleway where I spotted a ripe patch yesterday” the […]