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Film: Ink (2021)
It was while producing these images for the Kick-About No.18, that I picked up the wrong sort of marker pen, which reacted to the spritzing of alcohol in some fascinating ways. I noticed how the… Read more
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The Kick-About #19 Art Forms In Nature – Ernst Haeckel
Following the simple, unadorned charms of our previous still-life inspired Kick-About, in which we were encouraged to turn our creative attentions to objects rather ordinary and domestic, this week’s edition is a good deal more… Read more
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Throwback Friday #38 Sir Peter Buck (2017)
A few days ago, I was very happy to share this portrait-come-caricature, drawn by the artist, Phill Hosking, to mark the occasion of my forty-sixth birthday. While I am completely mystified by the strange genre… Read more
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Still Life: Houseplants (2020)
I worked up these studies super-fast and without any fuss or forethought and just really enjoyed what the process itself was giving back. Given the knock-about informality of the technique, it amused me a bit… Read more
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Throwback Friday #37 Rome, February (2017)
Inevitably, given the monochromatic weather and newly-announced ‘lock-down 3’, I find myself preoccupied with memories of different sights and warmer climes. Read more
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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #11
Sometimes I have an idea about what a character in Chimera Book 1 might sound like, or look like. Then I hear Dan’s narration and suddenly the voice he gives to characters is how they… Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 15 – Whirlitzer
Dim the lights, get comfy, it’s time for the next instalment of Kyp Finnegan’s continuing adventures in Chimera, the realm of lost things… Read more
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The Kick-About #18 Still Life With Blue Vase, Fernand Leger (1951)
After the heightened atmosphere of our last kick-about, and the rich food of the festive season now largely behind us, Leger’s simpler fare was a welcome offering. Leger’s still life was brought to the attention… Read more
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Phil G by Phill Hosking – A Birthday Portrait
It’s my forty-sixth birthday today. Forty-six! Blimey. To mark the occasion, my old pal, Phill Hosking, dropped by the house today with a card – and inside the card, Phill’s portrait-come-caricature of yours truly -… Read more
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Throwback Friday #36 Choosing Kryptonite (2003)
Sometimes when a relationship ends, it doesn’t, and round and round you go together in interminable circles. This song was written in a time of circles, resolutions going broken and broken again. Read more
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