ian gordon craig

#TV I’ve been catching up on The Walking Dead. It kind of got lost in the UK back in Covid times. Also watched the spin-off Dead City. All are not bad, but always the exact same plot lines!

#People #Painting. Sally (no longer with us) was a much loved pavement artist on Lister Gate #Nottingham. She always included a Pink Panther in her work and liked to sing along (loud) to her Abba tapes on the way home.

#Portraits #People #Painting. My dad. Arnhem paratrooper. His generation fought for and defended the country that subsequent generations would live and thrive in for 4 or 5 decades. After that? Opinions are divided.

#Lionesses #England Sweet Caroline.

#Painting #Buildings. Thoresby Hall. I was shooting quite a lot of video at the time, so the rectangles in the composition, trying to create a time-lapse in the picture, probably came from that.

#Drawing #Sketchbook #Buildings. The crematorium on a hill. This was the view from my art department way back in my years as a teacher.

#Painting #Buildings. Perlethorpe Church. In retrospect, getting together one day a week, singing together, knowing one’s neighbours, seemed like a good idea after all.

#Drawing #Sketchbook #Buildings #School. Perlethorpe Primary School as was in my day. Now it’s an Environmental Education Centre.

#Drawing #Sketchbook #Buildings #Skegness Clock Tower.

#Music In schoolboy days we swapped Dylan & Paul Simon chords, learning guitar. Wouldn’t listen to cover version people like Judy Collins. Now 3 yrs after its release, I come across her last album “Spellbound”. It’s one of the most beautiful albums I’ve heard. Perhaps by anyone.

#Sketchbook #Drawing #Nottingham. A #homeless man in #Nottingham. He was called Frank, the dog’s name was Sasha.

#Self-portrait 1990s. #Painting. I am a carpenter’s son. Didn’t inherit the walk on water trick though.

#Painting #People #Nottingham. 1980s. Two old mates making a bacon sarnie and a cuppa tea last for ages. I THINK this was on Alfreton Road? If you want to go check, I’ll wait here and hold your coat…

#PeanutButter #Toast #Sketchbook #Snacks #Food #Drawing #Breakfast

#Sketchbook #Food #Chocolate #Snacks #Twix #Snickers #Drawing.

#Sketchbook #Chocolate mini roll #Drawing #Snacks.

#Sushi #Sketchbook #Food #Drawing #Snacks

#Sketchbook #Snacks #Cake #Food #Drawing Jam Tarts.

#Landscape #Sketchbook #Painting using acrylics like water colors. Clipstone Colliery, long since closed down, but the building still stands like a monument.

#Landscape #Painting. Oil painting about time passing.