Mobile website compatibility

Yes indeed. The website is now mobile compatible. The website painting images shrink  to the size of the mobile screen or tablet. Very clever. Software that is. Not me. I just pointed and clicked until it worked. I don't have a clue what I'm doing.

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Original paintings for sale in the Blott gallery Blackpool

Yes, exciting news. Most of the paintings I completed last year are available to buy in the Blott gallery.  Canvases I have recently completed will feature in the in the Blott Summer exhibition which starts in June. The following photographs show what the gallery looks like from the outside and from the inside - just in case you happen to be in the area and you wonder, for second, whether you're in the right building.

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I almost forgot to post this

The following advert for the Blott Gallery appeared in Rolls Royce monthly. My ubiquitous Preston sunrise appears alongside works by the other Blott contributors. I think it looks rather fine and classy so I am quite chuffed. As my Father owns at least two Rolls I expect to hear from him quite soon. Val thought that this is just the sort of thing that belongs in my blog. She may or may not be a little tired of the drivel I otherwise write. I couldn't possibly say.



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Location:New Hall Lane,Preston,United Kingdom

My first big canvases.

I've just completed the second of two big canvases for the exhibition. One is Preston sunrise but big. The second is another one of my surrealistic ones with the funnels. Both were very challenging to do for different reasons. The first reason which did not surprise me was that bigger canvases  need more paint and more time to apply the paint. This means I have had to maintain a constant level of  enthusiasm on a piece that would've taken me maybe half as long on the canvases I normally work on. This was tricky. There I've said it. The second reason is that  I attempted to paint 3 large female figures in acrylic.  Acrylic dries very quickly. This problem becomes more pronounced on large canvases. On my large scale figures I would apply paint to the head and by the time I got down to the toes the head would be dry. No blending over large areas here. Not to mention that the subtle fleshtones I had lovingly mixed would be a rock hard lump on the pallette. From now on I'm going to go to paint in oils. The only former objection to using oils was that the smell of turps makes me dizzy. I now have this product called zestit which smells like lemons to thin the paint and clean the brushes. Next painting is going to be a portrait. I have my first commission!