The birds are making music.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22

#photography

Another fairly quick study painting today.
It’s been a very good art day. Same model, slightly different pose. Much better painting, imo.

Maybe some tiny tweaks when I have better light to see it in. Quite please with it.

Oil painting, 6 x 8”

#art #artwork #portrait #portraitpainting #mastoart #oilpainting #redhead

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?

Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers x9
Twix x7

The tub itself has gone down another 50g since 2024 (100g since 2023!)

Hard to believe that I used to give this content to Zuckerberg for free, you're welcome Fediverse!

#Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation

A year in pictures

2025/12

#Groningen #Monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #photography

Almost forgot #MountainMonday . But I wanted to share this one with you from quite a while ago.
I didn't go to this summit as the way would have been ways too dangerous. But still I loved the view!

#winter #hiking #bayern #bavaria #photography #mountains

My latest print, Haven, photographed properly.

Screenprint, edition of 19, printed in ten colours on Somerset Velvet Radiant White 250g/m.

#screenprinting #printmaking #printmaker

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry

Basically my career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry dropped all pretence and switched to just overtly looting, manipulating, and gouging.

Being a bit angry about it is probably quite reasonable