war in heaven?

as I left the lakes the weather changes where I had been some of my favourite effects bright sun strong clouds, giving the effect of sunbeams searching the valleys and turning the mountains into shapes of light. this is a great cloud squatting over a mountain like some great creature

I really like the extra effects of light on the lens in this one. stops it being too cliched-the solitary tree with looming cloud and light .

I went up a mountain and then fell over

two people who did not at least in my sight fall over.

a very rubbish painting, now dead.

YESTERDAY i WENT TO THE lakes and up a mountain, when I reached the top I fell over, fortunately not over the mountain just over, stepped on a stone which tipped quite effectively and I fell over did a kind of clumsy roll into very wet turf so a soft wet landing.

It reminded me a little of a painting by Michael Andrews called the man who suddenly fell over in fact that painting didn't mean as much to me til I fell over then suddenly it had more resonance as artists are prone to say.http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=514&searchid=8910 this should give you a look

here is a painting at an early stage which I have since painted over as it was rubbish.

nothing as depressing as painting a rubbish painting, actually there are thousand more depressing things but where would we be without a little hyperbole (whatever that is)?

a few photos , well two isn't a few; its two, but the Dome at Whitley BAy is having a face lift and at present it is crowned with scaffolding and looks interesting. this one is actually a reflection but you probably knew that already.
while this is a rare sketch rare because for every sketch these days I probably take about 200-300 photographs. It is Hexham and I am attempting to paint it but am fairly dissatisfied so far.

here is another one of the Dome. Nice thing about this time of year: good skies.

blue water

well for better or for worse I changed the sky and water from orange to blue, where it began if I remember correctly. It is a bit tamer and I'm not too happy with it but there you go , can't win them all.

one good thing about summer being past is the beginning of very nice morning skies without getting up early!
these are pigeons!

I've got a bit confused about which is which and what is what regarding these orange pictures,

this is in fact the latest I was tempted this moring to repaint with a blue sky which is where it started but I shall wait and see. It looks a bit cliched at the moment.

I've been working on the Orange skied (sky-ed?)Newcastle scene not sure if I ''m flogging dead horse but it is challenging trying to make it look well. more worth while. Adtually it looks the same perhaps this is a repeat!!

the other one I have changed a bit but it is still unresolved in several areas that is to say several areas look a bit rubbish to me.

Went to an opening of an exhibition in Newcastle last night probably against my better judgement I rarely enjoy openings, I almost always go alone and almost always nobody talks to me1 sad or what billy no mates.

In the event wasn't wrong nobody spoke to me, the art was good, challenging, but why invite people then ignore them flipping heck these artists! a law unto themselves.

anyway: why worry?

here are some very nice photos of great pink clouds form yesterday evening, nearly made me late for a class but worth it. I seem to have put one on twice.