birdy

i took photos of this little bird. it came out of a little house in the sand and then sat on the fence for a bit. then it went to sign on at the dwp.

beach time

i went to the beach and ate a pittabread with some kind of cheese salami and lettuce and drank a can of 7up which felt like being back in time which was kind of nice and then i walked about taking photos and watching swans and put the empty drink can under a pile of wood and then went and got it later and then i walked and got tired and looked at reflections in the water and the sky and then went home.

updated photos on the photo blog.

my finger is hurting

I'm tired. i've been trying to paint music but whenever i do that i forget about the background work which obviously ends up making me frustrated. because you can't dump a bridge in a river. I also have been neglecting call of duty 4 which makes me feel bad. i've already completed it but i just like to take time out of my busy schedule painting things that never were in order to keep the world free from terrorism.

anyway, my point was... that i am struggling to allow myself to do the background work (that is unavoidably essential and makes the foreground take form anyway, i.e. IS the painting) because i'm impatient and want to get to the sweeps of light that i watched last night. the 'friday jazz' painting ages ago worked better in the sense that it was raw in a way. i think i even dried the paint with a hair drier, but that painting was tiny. the new ones are all 60x60 so they're too big to hair dry.

but. back to my point. so my fingers are a bit sore for ink work, but i fancy doing some sweeping motion top work. the detail. but i'm currently focused on 5/6 paintings. i've got others kicking about that i'm too uninspired to work on anymore. the moment has passed really. now i need to get to the beach and breath in some of that air. listen to the silent white noise of the sea. i can't wait. i'm going to have a paddle about in it. i'm not sure i even washed my shorts from the last time i went. they have just been assimilated into the horizontal wardrobe on my bathroom floor. i hope the tide is in so i don't have to do the walk of shame for ages after i fall in the sea. ha ha.

yeah. so basically i've done over 5 hours painting today. 5/6 paintings on the go. two ready for inking. i think. tried some small connecting pieces on canvas.

i think this all works much better when i don't talk very much and just summarise. but anyway. i'm so tired. painting music. painting landscape. want to focus on some instrument studies close up with lights. but we'll see what happens. it's hard to get saxophone's to draw because of the nature of them. need one sitting about really in order to breath it in rather than just concentrating on it. because that's not really the spirit of it anyway.

and i ate all this.

pastry and screw ups

my neighbour's car rolled down the hill and smashed into my other neighbour's wall. it is totally fudged and now. this is the guy who tried to turn everyone against me with my other neighbour. i called it the axis of baldness. 2 bald men trying to incite neighbourly hated against a young man with beautiful treacle coloured hair past his shoulders. coincidence? i think not.

Jazz Suite :)

This was my first show of my paintings. it was awesome. i didn't get many good pictures because i was nervous enough with lugging my camera about, so i used my phone camera.

so anyway, the paintings looked great in the jazz suite and got to watch some really tasty jazz. which was awesome. i'm very grateful.

updated

i have updated my website www.mikebromage.com

info...

My website will be offline today until it's been sorted out. oh deep joy.

stir fry face

lichen and ultimate chips

smells fishy if you ask me. well you would say that.

another of a 1920's flapper girl


this is one of a lady in the dark

beach

there are pictures on my photo blog.

thought for the day

teach a child the word "bird" and he ceases to see the fantastic winged creature in front of him

she wears masks of faces from 1920s

that weird kid is using a plant pot as a cup. fantastic.

water colours

i know these aren't very good, but give it like 4 years and i'll be able to tie my shoelaces.

i had a day of water colour challenge

huxley
kettle chip >
oh i can't remember what i'm talking about

my garden table in my bedroom

water-colours and ink

landscape for mariah. portrait for jessica.

5 minute chocolate mug cake

my friend emailed me this reciepe. so obviously i tried it. :)

.....

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

what it is to be popular

i've got a huge headache today. been painting for a bit. i hate background work. i really am not enjoying my painting today or last night for that matter. i've got lots of things i want to do and relate but it's a struggle to transcribe the immediacy of emotion into acrylic work. I'm finding it all incredibly frustrating. the paint won't dry fast enough and it's ending up with all this shitty greys and pinks that lack definition and significance. I think it is easier to evoke an emotion when the emotions you are paintings are transcriptions of someone else's feelings and experience (i.e. from music) and not when they are translations of events that mean so much to you that you feel your heart will burst. My point being i guess that i need to get some ultimate chips and doughnuts and visit the places for which those foods are significant.

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I've deleted this post because it doesn't reflect my work or personality and was a drawing that i did over a year and a half ago when i was bored.

I've been waiting for the taste (2009)

Don't seem right
I've been strung out here all night
I've been waiting for the taste
You said you'd bring to me

I would like to salute the genius who did this

Every single time i see this* i cry with laughter. who ever you are sir, or madam, you are a genius.

*note. sign should read "the spirit of discovery" and has been altered to say "the spirit of disco".

cows in fields.

drawings from memory

drawings obviously


about a time when i was 17 and i had a bit of a tantrum.


time when i was 16 and i was heart broken because i met a girl called ruth and then we had to leave each other. sigh.


the first time i remember going into a pub, we were carroll singing for charity. i didn't like it.


the time when i was 6/7 and i fell in a pond


creation


more creation