Three Soothing taps (2010)

The irrelevant click (2010)

Three way click (2010)

Getting my freaking paint on.

After a few days of inactivity I popped into the garage and it bit me and i've been painting for hours.



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There are still Dust piggies served fresh and daily.

www.mikebromage.com

just a reminder that the catalogue of my work is on here. not on this blog obviously.

raspberry teeth

i'm tired and having a break from stuff for a bit. trying to get a bunch of dust piggies ready, and finish the degree show stuff. it's fine. but i want to work on my painting. but there is yellow missing somewhere and i can't see it. so i need a break.

I need a good brown

Can't find one. Didn't find a good green until I mixed yellow and black. Oh I don't know, it's a hard life.


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Foxes barking / howling and keeping me more awake than usual.

turn the sound right up on your computer and press play.

scotch pancakes and smiley queen.

i'm going to draw smiley faces on stuff quite a bit for a while again i think. and i like scotch pancakes.

and they let you get it from the drive thru? (2010)

Yellow cooks heavy

Painting my socks off. Not that I wear socks when I paint, because I like to paint sans socks and trousers because otherwise it is a minefield. Lovely music, tea and water. Ah the smell of the paint, the taste of the biscuit.

And I solved the title problem. Pick one word off three objects that I can see.



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Grey little soul (2010)

*note* again, a bad photo. doesn't really do the painting justice. i'll take good ones before i upload to the website. i guess. unless i uploaded that last one when i was asleep last night.

In my studio

If you don't get this reference then what are you reading this nonsense for anyway.



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I'm really running out of possible titles for these non specific posts

I've been listening to pretzel logic and roaring of the lamb all day. Such amazing albums. So resultingly I've been painting all day. I've run out of boards. Which isn't good news. I'll try and keep the flow going while I wait for a chance to get more.

A bunch of magpies had some kind of romanesque party in the garden today. Their voices are horrible. They fecalated the clean laundry, which I am pretty indifferent to.











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A fire in the hole (2010)

*note, this truly is a terrible photo of this painting. the maroon in the photo is a nice deep red and all the colours are vibrant accordingly. i'll take a better picture when i can be bothered to find my dslr battery charger that jess has 'tidied'.

fish me

i've been underwater in the river 3 times in a week and it's undefinable. it's so peaceful and calming. today there were fish swimming around my fingers. these tiny little ones. today i finished the last of the current 8 60 x 60 paintings that were painted to steely dan. i freed up a lot on this final one. which was nice. i only say final as i always say it. it means nothing. if i get the urge i will do more. but it feels a bit like i've lost ownership of them. which sounds stupid really. the paintings that i'm trying to focus on are the ones that don't have any stability. or rigid stability to the point that i don't even want to work on them because they are monotonous. i've got a 90 x 90 that is all brown and i don't even want to look at it. but i'm using it to make me want to keep painting colour, motion and in a self examining way. other wise it's back to the brown. like doing lines when you are institutionally in trouble. or breaking rocks. anyway i'm not sure what i'm really talking about anymore, so i'll put up some pictures because no one reads this stuff if i write more than about 2 lines anyway.

i had a picnic here today i think

life is strange when you don't sleep.

Junk food and fresh views.

It's like 4.45 am and I'm having a break for some ink to dry. Insomnia is unfortunately seeming to invade defeat on a Friday night these days. So I'm painting away the time rather than doing nothing. Coming back at the last unfinished steely dan painting, which isn't going the way it might. I really want a shower. Feeling quite stagnant at the moment. Loads of ideas for dust piggies, but I've got so many to colour in that I'm just having to get that out the way before I can do anything else. I think I'll have a shower and then go for a walk when dawn breaks fully. Or maybe get this painting done.

















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Have updated www.mikebromage.com

With loads of new stuff. have a look by clicking anywhere on this : here , also there is always www.dustpiggies.com to look at.

Emerging (2010)

Submerging (2010)

Thought for the night.

Abstraction isn't about inventing a term so that you can lazily splash paint around or generally make crap that means nothing. It's like scraping a bit of butter on a piece of cardboard and calling it hot buttered toast.

Abstraction is about simplifying the infinite complexity of something. This case painting. Creating abstraction is not something to be lost in. Once that happens then you have abandoned abstraction.


** note: I wrote this before I dropped my phone on my face then went to sleep **




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Speckles and Reverb (2010)

My Cat in bright light (2010)

Turning handle (2010)

Fingers on doors (2010)

Dipping in a toe (2010)

A plan is a foot. Arf arf.

Plan is so far working dunno how the results will turn out. Painted a bit today too.

Do you remember him from somewhere? Before his feet lost their hair.


















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Ultimate chips.

Sigh. They were delicious.



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The elements of night time (2010)

Studio currently.

That sofa is beautiful. I haven't had a good sleep on a sofa since the old sofas in the lounge went.











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