As I mentioned last week the workshop I attended last Saturday was for “painting flowers in watercolour” – ok, I’m not that bothered about painting… Read More »Dying flowers don’t inspire me funnily enough
I spend my life with the sort of people I feel comfortable with – Â a lot of artists, writers and photographers, not in a rubbing… Read More »Linked up writing in the erotic style
Mmm……I’m not sure what to write about today, shall I tell you about my trip to the framers (not farmers, framers) earlier, or the chat… Read More »Friday eroticism deconstructed
February 14 – Valentines Day – that date causes so much heartbreak and sorrow when you’re a teenager (yes I remember the heart wrenching unadulterated big teethy… Read More »For lovers everywhere
 Here it is then, in all its technicolour glory! Stuart’s pride and joy, and mine as well. As I explained in the last blog post… Read More »Unveiling Stuart in all his glory
Some pictures are simple to paint, others more difficult. Not difficult to paint them you understand, just more complex ideas to pull together and get right… Read More »Nature, nurture, and naked at seventy five
Isn’t life easier when you can let it all hang out, when there’s nothing to hide, nothing to worry about. Although, to be honest,  I think… Read More »Threes are fine and even better with a feathery touch
I’ve spent many years doing life drawing, and learnt quite early on that there are rules of etiquette about how the model is treated and… Read More »Hold it right there, and I’ll draw you
I was going to write another piece for my blog post – infact it is written already and will be my next blog post –… Read More »Love – pure and simple
The workshop was the adreniline shot in the arm I needed. I turned up at the village hall just before 10am, balancing art bag stuffed with watercolour… Read More »If it needs explaining it’s not art
Chatting with my spiritual healer friend earlier she talked of the book she is working on – as in writing, not as in reading, although… Read More »Oooh I need that jump start
I’ve had a very nice invitation recently, which caused a flurry of phone calls to see if I was able to accept. Well, I knew… Read More »Diamond sparkly venue
I love the beginning of a painting, when the sheet of paper has been stretched on a board, flat, crisp, even. Blank, and waiting. And then… Read More »Cut off in his prime
A peek behind the velvet curtain this week would show an awful lot of unpleasantness. A lot of it wet and sticky.  I try to keep away… Read More »What? Better than Gerard Butler without his shirt on?
Stuart is 75 and likes being naked around me. The fact that he’d never been naked infront of anyone other than his wife of 50… Read More »I didn’t promise you a rose garden
