‘I Feel Things Less Now’ new painting. Excalibur Estate. Pre fab houses in Catford, London. darrenhaymanart.com

Rewatching ER from the beginning again was the best idea I’ve had this year.

One last time for this darrenhaymanart.com/products/we-... Today’s painting. £80. In a frame.

This morning’s painting. ‘We used to be more’. Excalibur pre-fab housing estate in Catford. darrenhaymanart.com

My daughter and her friends do this and it’s really very lovely. The closest thing to when we used to send letters.

I took a reasonable photo of some geese in flight on my walk by the canal this morning.

I have essential tremor and have done for decades. Voice notes allow me to use quick and specific communication.

Darren is an excellent voice biter. I know I’m always going to laugh when I get one from him.

I have one person, friends for 28 years, who I do short exchanges with I find it hilarious he never, ever considers what he's going to say when he presses record. We both marvel at how nothing much happens

I stand with Darren (mainly because he introduced them to me, I didn’t even know you could do such a thing). I have little else to say really, but they’re fine. Certainly not worthy of the performative vitriol I’m seeing on here.

Yes, I’m a much better conversationalist when I have time to think about my words. I get a bit overwhelmed in the moment sometimes. I think that’s why I originally fell in love with Twitter. Voice notes are great.

This is really lovely. I'd never thought of using them like this but it makes total sense. I used to be someone who was quite annoyed by voice notes but then I realised that was my problem, not the senders. I only have a few friends who use them and sometimes it's just nice to hear their voice.

I am apparently the wrong side of this. I have several friendships that are built on voice notes. One friend and I exchange about two hours worth a week. It’s beautiful. We talk uninterrupted. We listen. We exchange records and reviews. It’s basically free therapy. It is also very unusual I know.

‘We used to be more’ New painting. It’s of one of the prefab homes still remaining on the Excalibur estate in Catford, London. This painting is available and comes in a frame. darrenhaymanart.com

No matter how bad your night is going, just remember, at least you’re not at this.

Hayman’s hacks

Some new painting progress photos. I’d be interested if anyone can guess where or what I’m painting.

A little video about some of my recent Spanish paintings. darrenhaymanart.com

Postcard watercolour paintings of Penryn, Cornwall. darrenhaymanart.com

This is a curious project by one of my very talented friends. thechalkgroup.bandcamp.com/album/the-fi...

My record store day highlight was Simon Fisher Turner at Rough Trade West.

This is lovely from Start-Track 🐸🇸🇰 start-track.com/album-frog-f... @filip.start-track.com

Frog's 'Count Bateman' album is finally available on vinyl via @bandcamp.com - heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/album/count-...

Two record covers on 40cm square boards. Working with a grid.

I have a new collection of stickers in my shop, under the tag of 'heta-uma', which roughly translates from Japanese to 'bad but good' or 'unskilled good'. It's one of my favourite art styles. adarrenrileypainting.com/search?q=het...

Some Penryn things.

Penryn

‘The very, very, very last time we do this’ a painting I did this week. You can buy it. Comes in a frame. darrenhaymanart.com

‘The very, very, very last we do this’ - new painting. darrenhaymanart.com

My friend Michael gave me this memory stick and said, there you go, that’s eveything. It is 100s of hours of unreleased Beatles sessions. My friend Dan gave me this customised iPod in an attempt to cure me of my depression and phone addiction. All the sessions are on my iPod. It’s my Beatles machine

Three recent paintings darrenhaymanart.com

Wait no more! Your LIONEL BLAIR STICKER SHEET is here! adarrenrileypainting.com/products/lio...

At 40cm square these two boards will be the largest paintings I’ve done in years and years. Will show you the slow progress on them. Both ‘might’ be record covers. They also might not be.

Nearly gone …

They can call Noah Wylie ‘Doctor Robbie’ in the Pitt all they like but he is John Carter and this is an ER sequel to me.

Awake at 5am. Second day running

Maybe the start of a new project

Commissions of my night paintings are a little trickier because I may not have access to the place and question and we have to work around getting the visual information to make painting work. That shouldn’t dissuade you from asking me to do a night time picture of your home or favourite pub etc.

Late night commission

Stupid life

One of my favourite songs off the new album. I’m going to make a video for it where a bike falls in love with a man. hurrahmusica.bandcamp.com/track/strang...

‘Hardly ever at all’ - another new night painting. Available from darrenhaymanart.com

Shame he had his thumb over half the lens. Could have been a great picture

New painting ‘I Have Done This Before’. It’s a view of the Mildmay club. And it’s true. I have painted this before. I was drawn to paint it again. darrenhaymanart.com

Today’s painting. A lone window, late night in Gijon, Asturias, Spain. Buy from darrenhaymanart.com

Warmish take… there are no good covers of Daniel Johnston songs, and yet a lot of people think they can do it because, perhaps everything Johnston did was unfinished and unrefined? But that was the point. The songs were good because of the recordings and vice versa. It’s a whole thing.

You losers are so jealous of my life.

New night painting. ‘Work is the answer’ available from darrenhaymanart.com

Today’s painting again. A coastal scene from Gijon, spain. Available from darrenhaymanart.com

Postcard painting of Gijon, Asturias, Spain. darrenhaymanart.com