dead babies

is a song by Alice Cooper; don't you know, it's not as horrible as it sounds and like a lot of his early music is a bit of a morality tale designed to startle the unwary.

Anywy this strange sight caught my eye the other day as I cycled from Newcastle funny how the eye is drawn to small but significant shapes.

This on the other hand is a bit of a sublime sky over the golf course, the connection being completely accidental; that is Alice Cooper is an avid (if that's the right word), glofer or golfer or gopher: whatever....

this Beautiful Thief

That is the name of my son Oliver's band he asked me to do some imagery and this is what I came up wiht, acrylic on canvas, I am ready for something new now. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=289503557

this is a quickie I did in class a really interesting house in Cullercoats, I have always liked it especially when the sun is on it.
and some lovely evening clouds; it has been damp windy and at times sunny, good cloud weather.

theiving magpies!

been trying to do magpies fro son oliver who has aband called beautiful theif and wanted some images, all I could think of was a theiving magpie, but canny hard to draw whjen you are out of practicve due to excessive camerisation!

no police visits for a while: mustn't be doing it right! did fall in the though; so not all bad news.

easy as..

falling off a log, which is what I did earlier in the week, in fact I have been a tumbling illustration of two well known phrases, easy as etc and getting the shock of one's life' first for some reason I had a log in my garden and for another less sensible reason I thought this log would be good to stand on while attempting to clean a downstairs window, the log rolled, me too, in an undignified manner sprawling onto my back in my garden flattening a few plants in the process. Then later in the week while trying to fix a broke shower, I thought I had switched off the electricity, had dismantled the switch and was manually handling the wired when a rater painful sensation reminded me that the shower was in fact on a different and still live circuit! I think my rubber soled trainers may have prevented dire consequences! the shock of my life! well; one of them: I have had a few.

Anyway enough serious stuff what about art? here is another version of the Walkworth scene, a bit of a happier less intense picture I think, quite pleased with it. one day last week I went out in the sunny morning to find that Tynemouth had a resident cloud sitting on the sea front hence foggy photo's the first is a daytime equivalent of moonshine the second you need good eyesight to see- but I like it.

just checked and it looks like I haven't posted it: the semi- abstract, I got truly sick of the more literal rendering posted earlier poor show Dave!

caught by the fuzz

well not quite but someone -2 someones to be exact; phoned the police to say a man was acting strangely in a field! not as bad as it sounds, it was only me! taking photos of a farmhouse with attending trees which I have occasionally admired from my car and finally took time to stop, park and go and get some photos.

obviously I looked rather creepy creeping about like gollum in and out of the bushes looking for that perfect shot. well not really perfect you just get a bit cariied away, I have looked closely and can't see anyone looking out of the window looking worried that I am a potential terrorist on reconi.. reccc.. looking at the place.

can't quite remember if I have done anything to this painting since last posting it but her it is in its present probably unfinished state,
and here is a very nice poppy from my garden, if it wasn't for the light round bit at top left it might be a canny good phot. o