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Here we have a canvas in four stages. A reliable source tells me they get worse as they go along, but I can’t help adding new layers and media. No. 4 even has printing ink and mono prints scattered across it. Seeing what works, & not worrying too much about it. Orkney landscape.
Underneath a blackbird’s gaze
The wrens are flitting, and their ways
Are undetected from above
In stoney brown and green - I love
Their cheeky ways and pompous tweet
The rustle, hopstep of their feet
And surreptitious foraging
The song of life they seem to sing
Morn @IMcMillan
Today we have two sketches using simple forms, @SeymourPip chalks and oil mediums, and an essential telegraph pole. Based on standing stone studies, Orkney. #mixedmedia #charcoal #ArtistOnTwitter
So silly
To sum up a simple song
To summarise
Where it began
To start a job
Then leave a job
So quickly
Seems odd
a year of subtle learning
A discovering year
Examining
All that’s near
Embracing shards of life
With all its flaws
I’ll never close
Those open doors
M @IMcMillan
The pepper mill
Is just the grist
And joins the salt
Onto this list
I spy the table
Full of whist
And add the napkins
To my list
A handmade bun
Looks like a fist
All cutlery
Gleams on my list
Plates, glasses, sauce
- you get the gist
All elements
My dinner list
M @IMcMillan
Returning to an old canvas, chucking oil paint, collaged scraps, charcoal and mud at it, I finish up with this. Based on Ring of Brognar sketches. What a mess. #mixedmedia #oilpainting #charcoal
Sentinels. Two studies of neolithic sites in earthy stones, chalk, pastel, oils and beech charcoal. Completed very quickly, just a few minutes. #mixedmedia #Stoneage #Rock
Standing still 1-3. #oilpainting and #mixedmedia stuff on thick paper, based on visits to Neolithic sites. One telegraph pole included.
Some roads are shorter
Than needed - breaking geos
With swift helix cuts
And bridging fault lines
With hooked certainty -
We seem to be free
To flex swivelled feet
And beat physics up
No longer seeing
The cut of the land
Or needing geology
To understand
Morn @IMcMillan
Orkney Saga. This is a large #mixedmedia piece with bits of stone circle, cloud burst, sea and land, and, of course, a telegraph pole or two. Vivid memories from the last few days. Thanks @orkneycom