Dedicated Harry Potter fans both, my boys couldn’t wait to get their hands on a couple of Kinder Joys recently, to enjoy the yummy chocolate, and to (probably more importantly) discover the Potter figure secreted inside. Emerging from their chocolate egg encasement were 3.5 cm figures of Dumbledore himself and Severus Snape. I wanted to…
Tag: Still Life
Finding Comfort in Painting
This painting, which I made in acrylics on A4 paper last year, depicts a comforter belonging to one of my children. I find recording in paint this stuff of childhood, comforting. Painting itself – which I don’t get much time for these days what with the more important demands of parenting, and a ‘proper job’…
Sir Topham Hatt, a Tribute
I completed this little painting, depicting a Sir Topham Hatt (a.k.a. the Fat Controller) toy figure, last week. It’s another in a series of paintings depicting those toys belonging to my two sons that have particularly fond memories attached to them. Both my boys were (and thankfully occasionally still are, though they are growing quickly)…
Postman Pat gone Delft
A wee while ago, I set students at one of my art classes a light-hearted challenge to design their own Delft tile. The challenge was intended to inject a bit of variety into the classes and to see what individual, personal designs each student could come up with. We didn’t work on tiles, but the…
Cracked Plastic Andy
This is a painting of one of my children’s toys – a small plastic figure of Andy Day that came with a CBeebies magazine sometime around 2017. Andy is dressed in his Andy’s Dinosaur/Prehistoric/etc. Adventures gear. My eldest son and I used to love watching the programmes, and used to take toy Andy on adventures…
Drawing Upon Life 