Ok, so I’ve done some further thinking. This blog is ultimately looking at the creative process from my personal perspective. It began...

It’s springtime and time to re-think the purpose and function of #dailyfail. It’s all about looking at the process of creativity. It...

Well, it’s been something of a daily failure to achieve anything creative this last week. I’ve not been idle, but if I’m honest, it takes...

After four months, I’m forced to add a new category. Digital. The whole point initially of #dailyfail was to return to the unambiguous...

Away from the mothership and with limited materials and time to hand, and with a lot of background work to do following my joint of the...

I’m really enjoying messing with the MagicShutter photo app, and using it to draw. It has some amazing possibilities: a degree of control...

Stuck in traffic circling London, art materials safely packed out of sight, darkness falling and the dawning realisation we will not be...

The under layers of a new work. I like documenting work in progress. It’s all part of the digital revolution. A hundred photos taken...

More basic observational stuff. I’m on a once-a-week commute to London at the moment. Lots of train time for surreptitious drawing of...

Back to basics. Basic observational drawing. Himself has been having boxing lessons for a while now and I kept saying I would quite like...

More crayon and combining all that I dislike in a cute pet subject in pastel colors. Things are quite distracted at present. All the more...

Caran d’ache crayons lurking in the bottom of my bag and a new sketchbook/journal with really nice paper that looks as though it will...

What I’m most enjoying about the whole #dailyfail exercise is the complete freedom from having to justify time, concept, context, skill,...

More breaking of self imposed “rules” on a series of daily challenges resolutely NOT using digital technology but then again the whole...

I’ve been varnishing furniture in an obsessive-compulsive fashion today, having just refurbished a bedroom with predominantly dark oak...

Still on the greyness of the A58 into town. I am waiting for a decent spell in the studio to do something with these images racing...

Sitting in a cafe, looking out on a grey rainy day, I noticed with interest the dull greyness was punctuated by red-orange at every...

Blind contour drawing over and over within confined boundaries of an oddly angled face. Released from any need for likeness. Always a...

It’s no excuse but I can’t begin to explain how hard it is to do any work when additional children appear on the horizon. It was an...

Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid...