Beach, pencils and paint.

New colouring pencils and another walk on a cold beach. Returned to painting today. Changing how I paint, so I am in a chair and off the ground to try and make it less cold. I'm abandoning painting people again for now because it's too much of a barrier to using my imagination and it's really, thought-wise, the easy option. People can be in scenarios and stories, whereas making stories and emotions without recognisable tools is much more exciting and involving. The simplicity of an abstracted object can be a enabler or a distraction, a photo reproduction is a poor imitation of life. Painting, the way I paint people is a poor imitation of the literal, albeit with possibilities of imaginary settings and abstracted versions of people, their bodies etc. But when I am painting something less linear then that is when I have to be inventive with my thoughts and placement of paint and lines.

Probably waffle but it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.







































- from the roving mike of destiny.