bakerart.bsky.social
http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/
My paintings etc. Work shown with Cambridge Drawing Society twice a year since 1983. Contact email address is on website. Reluctant to sell artwork online because of costs and risks.
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If I've remembered correctly the name of the part time tutor we had at that time for life drawing was John Bowstead. He was very creative and witty, making surreal arrangements of objects around the model. artuk.org/discover/art...
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Does he have to be still attached to the foot?
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It was the end of an ear (except it wasn't!)
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Whatever it is it only exists to make mundane people sound clever and relevant. It fucking* doesn't though.
(*apparently if you swear in a comment it proves it isn't A.I.)
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There are plenty of people of poor means and limited intelligence willing to fall for the bullshit spread by the likes of Farage and Tice. Their policies would be a disaster for the have-nots. Simplistic slogans lead to dimwit foot soldiers voted in to run things way beyond their competence.
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This plus 100 years of Russian history doesn't give much hope. This is my current reading: a macabre book to be ploughing through in the summer sunshine. Is this catalogue of horrors available in Russia?
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If the polls that we are meant to believe are true he'll become our first absentee prime minister. I suppose the damage he could do will be limited if he spends his time swanning around staying away from any actual hard graft.
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I've never tested my soil but I imagine it has moved to be more acid than alkaline because of all the home made compost plus loads of rotting crab apples and (for a long time) a big plum tree with lots of falling fruit. Also a lot of shade (thank goodness!)
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Thank you. I've blocked him immediately.
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I've kept my Twitter account 'cos it's too difficult to remove 1000s of old posts without paying for special software. Just deleting one's account means the name can be hijacked by someone else. There are still posts of interest there but the hate spewed by MAGA trolls and bots is itself fascinating
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Yes!
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Shocking and disgraceful. Trump poisons everything he touches.
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Yes it comes up every year. Digitalis does well in my garden although Ferruginia (the lovely rust-coloured one) didn't appear this year. I have several tiny seedlings of this and other varieties so will carefully try and grow them on for next year.
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I'm not sure. I drove to Oxford to sketch on three or four occasions but it was over 20 years ago and that day it was raining heavily. I did some hurried sketches and took photos and worked on this one later. It wouldn't have been far from the Radcliffe Camera. Sold at an exhibition in Barnet.
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Thank you Cath - I have some viper's bugloss seeds planted and hoping to see some seedlings soon. The star attraction for bees over the past month has been Digitalis Lutea photos.app.goo.gl/CiCbF5iZkVgu...
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He used to be a Democrat for 8 years in the 2000s.
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I wonder if the government just lets this happen because it has become so ridiculous that it is counterproductive and results in nothing but sarcasm. I suppose they can't do anything about it except when board appointments are due. Then a few broadcasters rather than Faragists can get a look in.
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I confidently predict that he won't. The more "normal" people see of the ragbag of Reform councillors and their lack of policies and achievement the more likely they are to turn out and vote for someone other than the local brain-dead racist ne're-do-well.
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Well-chosen portraits of the media hacks!
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Thank you Ellen. It was a commission for a couple whose wedding was in that church. I found it hard to get a good view and when I looked on Google street view today I couldn't see the church at all because of all the trees and foliage. It is a lovely village, not far from where we lived then.
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Not only would I never use any spray-on body products (traces of which can be found in the deepest ocean) I quickly start coughing in crowded places because others have polluted the air with their choice of poison.
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I don't think Diaper Donny can be described as "strong" - maybe if you're downwind of him. He'll be gone soon.
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No idea who he is. I could do a seach but, meh.
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There's a lot of time for even the dimmest amongst us to see the light. The BBC Radio 3 news didn't highlight Reform's opinion this morning. Perhaps the sarcasm is getting through to them.
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Halfway through your brillian book Iron Curtain. The bookmark shows I'm halfway through (incidentally the bookmark is a vintage postcard of Winchester Cathedral). I always have several books on the go (one of the others is Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar by S.S.M)
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A majority want to rejoin and an even greater majority want a stronger relationship with Europe (and are looking with horror at the US). So where do this huge polling for Reform come from? Smoke and mirrors I think (lots of smoke comes from the Fagash Führer)