timskin

Thought I might spend a few minutes and write something a little more substantial, all these one word updates won't win me many friends!

I've not been up to much unfortunately since I was last on here. Uni finished for the year and I moved back home and have been working solidly since. Partly with my brother helping with his collectables store - If you are in the market for such things please go to The card Cellar and have a browse!! It's going very well, though sorting the stock and uploading images all day is mind numbing!!

I have also been working at my old department for the lovely local government - It's a great pay rate so I can't complain, and I like the majority of my old team so i's nice to see their faces again. It's actually quite nice to be back in an environment that I am respected!

Unfortunately I have been under a little black cloud since coming back and have had to resort to the docs and their lovely medicines to try and help me out a bit. I always said I wouldn't go down the medication route but I had to try something. My stomach decided to stop doing it's job properly which was good of it! Things are on the mend now, not great...but certainly better. If I can push off from here I'm hoping I can really put things back on track in the next few months and remember what it's like to be a (fairly!) young guy with options and a future.

I have turned my mind back to paintings and am planning more large black and white nudes - the next one is going to be this...



This is just a very rough prep sketch, one thing uni has taught me is to use small scales to look at things and get used to the forms in a piece, see where the weakness is and go forward from there. I like it, the bathtub will be in much more detail in the final.

I've been enjoying quite a few films in my evenings of late -

Hot Rod - disappointing
Paranoid Park - pretty decent
Sunshine - I like, but am not sure on the ending
Closer - Loved it
Hellboy 2 - hmmm, not such a fan
The squid and the whale - i liked it, but i now hate jeff daniels!
the wrestler - fantastico!

I am now about to watch "Thank you for Smoking".....So on that note.....

Nite nite!
XX

P.S. Thank you to the lovely Hezza for my profile pic!