What happened to the composition?Did it drift or did I like his head right on the edge? Restretched it to give me a couple of inches on the bottom and right hand side. This feels deeply humiliating and unprofessional. Which sums up my practise (or practice). Sigh.

June's theme is VAMPIRES Silent movies fully embraced the metaphorical vampire (NOSFERATU's genuine bloodsucker was something of a fluke) and we are going to witness the ruin of SO many men this month! moviessilently.com/2026/06/06/t...

Maria Montez in COBRA WOMAN (1944) She was BOTD in 1912

Ghanian poster for HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II (1988) Directed by Tony Randel

Working on this one today.

Spring Bride sketch

Working on this picture at home today.

Tam Lin sketches

Diana and Actaeon and Tam Lin. Should I stay (the same) or should I go (change)? Let love decide.

More Tam Lin sketches

Tam Lin sketches.

Tam Lin. She refuses illusion.

The thing you fear most.

#Art: Allégorie de la Victoire (ca. 1635) #Artist: #MathieuLeNain (b. 1607/ d. 1677; #🇫🇷) #ArtMovement/Style: #Baroque #Allegory #Symbolism Medium: Oil on canvas 151 x 115 cm (59.4 x 45.2 in) #DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy #ArtPost #FineArt 219

Done a little work on this one this morning. Taking some paintings to my gallery this weekend. Will I get it finished?

The one silent movie line people know, even if it is usually misquoted as "Kiss me, you fool" A FOOL THERE WAS (1915) was Theda Bara's vamp debut and she plays a woman who drives men to their deaths for kicks, referring to them as her fools.

Seemed important at the time.

“It feels like working, but it’s circling.” Listening to this in discussion of the dread response. Bringing back my repetition-is-good/bad chestnut. Itself a form of circling.

Photogravure by Isaac Julien seen in Graves Gallery Sheffield today. Love the close-up forms, and, I suppose, the low view point (looking upward slightly) giving the figures a gigantic, monolithic (to me) quality. Also, love the obscured head. Incredible image.

Painting in my hotel room today.

Amazing mezzotint based on Turner seen in the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield today.

"...what's my bit and what's me riffing on someone else's, what's mine and what do I own..." The Material Camille Bordas

Spring Bride studies

Studies for Spring Bride

Working on this one today. Currently looking at it while I watch telly.

spaceman

I want to be a man arranging his drawings in neat rows. I want a body of work. Time to make a body of work.

'Ghost In Garden', Carel Victor Morlais Weight, 1980. #PhantomsFriday

"'Poor little half-and-half!' said Solomon, who was not really hard-hearted, 'you will never be able to fly again, not even on windy days. You must live here on the island always.'" ("Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens") J.M. Barrie was born #otd 1860 🎨 Arthur Rackham #booksky #bookillustration

Sphinx sketches before going to work.

Interesting how paint, especially when you're painting light over dark, changes. Changes as you look at it, but also over time. The layers become more translucent. Anyway it makes you think about how it's always changing, it's never a fixed timeless thing. Also, importantly, it's unimportant.

Jack Edwards (dates ?) Spirit photo of congregation inside the Chapel at Camp Silver Belle with floating apparitions, ca. 1940's. #photography #JackEdwards #spiritphotography

Mayday! Mayday! Here is 'May Day' by Thomas Lord Busby, 1820. In this performance the May Queen is really an elaborate Jack in The Green (or Jill In The Green). I can see the 'dairy maid' is holding a spoon - any idea what the men are holding? #MayDay #folklore

How to think about it?

Salome sketches before work

“For introverts of a certain type—educated, urban, with experience of immigration—this can read like a manual for how to live.” J. R. Patterson reviews this collection of stories in which the characters “are often quiet, contemplative types.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/one...