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Painting at the Spring Fair in Birmingham Feb 2009. |
"At the start of 2009 I created my first blog post. The ambition was to create a new painting every day, or at least make a post about daily progress on new paintings. The inspiration for this was found on the internet. Duane Keiser started it all in the USA. His Painting a Day blog was often my daily first call. Then an even more inspirational artist Julian Merrow-Smith came into my sight. His blog is called Postcard from Provence and it still commands my daily attention. JMS paints small postcard sized originals, with a new one nearly every day. Looking at his work over several years it is easy to see how much he has developed by self-imposing the daily painting discipline. However, both of these inspirational artists have recently slowed up on the daily painting. And so I was keen to give it a go. I adapted a plein-aire paint kit [pochade] so that I could get out and paint on the spot. That was enjoyable when the weather was kind. Not so good when it was windy rainy or cold. After about six months I had dozens and dozens of new small paintings in many styles. They were filling up my studio and storage space. I had also started to make prints of the most suitable ones. The portfolio was called PAD [Painting A Day], with the edition size strictly limited to just 25 prints. The size of each print was small. 7" x 5" or 6" square. But, sigh, 'the best laid plans of mice and men' ... get screwed up! There was a growing demand from my gallery partners for my bigger paintings and prints. So later in the year my production of new small paintings slowed up. The addition of new prints in the PAD portfolio slowed up. And blog posts about daily paintings slowed up. But it did not die. Nowadays the blog is a very useful forum to tell you about other things that we do here in crabfish land. Why not go and have a look?"
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Sorting out a collection of small paintings before hanging our Open House exhibition. |
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Painting a Brighton bus posing in front of the Jill windmill. |
My outside painting set up in Norfolk looking at Cley Mill. |
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