New painting: ‘It Will Be There’ (part 01) watercolour and digital.
Sometimes I wish I look like this.
Curled.
Dogwalk Monster.
Clouds and ships, another painting done. Acrylic on canvas.
Experimentation: Cute, in watercolour.
Finished first attempt of mimicking Arthur Rackham’s style. Watercolour and India Ink.
First attempt work in progress, water colour and India ink
The Fox and The Girl
A new digital painting Mungo and I just finished. This is based on the first time I locked eyes with a fox, who wandered into our back garden in Camden, London, a couple of years ago. It was broad daylight, maybe 2 or 3 pm in the afternoon. I stared at the fox, the fox stared at me, we were only a few metres apart, separated by the kitchen door. Seemed like the staring contest went on for a bit, but it might’ve only been a few seconds. The fox slinked off towards the bushes behind the back fence.
And so they finally sit down together for dinner. Her parents know that at the end of winter she would go back to her cabin in the forest. Of course they hope that she would someday return to make her permanent home in the city, to live closer to them. But deep down in their hearts they know she is doing important work out there, and that she is happy.
And this is the little girl in the forest, working hard, with the animals around her.
Visiting my parents in Indonesia is always an emotional undertaking. To help me through it, my fiancee told me this story of a little girl who lives in the forest. She paints and draws the animals, the trees, and flowers, and that is her life’s work. Every winter, she cleans her brushes, packs her easels, her paints, and her pencils, draws the shutters down, and locks the little cabin she lives in, to go visit her parents in the city.
This scene depicts her leaving the forest, suitcases in her hands as she begins her walk down to the busy, bustling city below.
my first painting in a long while
Titled ‘Discovery’. The first edition of this one went to my good friend Roberta Thomson.
