23/10/11-Visited the Art Exhibition at Hutton Rudby Village Hall on Friday and saw some very nice pieces, a smashing variety by a lot of different artists from Hutton Rudby.

Finished a piece that's something a bit different, began reading up on 'The Day of The Dead', a festival in Mexico that honours dead family and friends which relies heavily on skulls and skeletons with photographs being altered to celebrate this festival, very interesting and definately an acquired taste.

Back to Windsor tomorrow with work but i'll be taking my new camera hopefully to get some good shots of the castle and surrounding area.

The last piece is taken from the classic Western 'The Wild Bunch', forget John Wayne this is how Westerns should be.

I decided to attempt a bit more colour work with acrylic and purchased a book by Charles Evans who has a no-nonsense approach to painting and mixing colours (I actually attended a watercolour weekend with him a few years ago and could definately reccomend it to anyone wishing to begin painting, smashing bloke). Not too bad for an early attempt.

This was me trying to get back to my miniature drawing work as some of them were sold at the Parkmore exhibitions and the Bobby Robson Charity Fair. This one measuring 100mm x 55mm.

This one is still a bit of a work in progress, Rammstein's lead singer in full fire flow, the good news is that they are touring early next year, got to be there for that one.

The next one was the acrylic painting of the World War 1 soldier sitting in the mud and devestation all around him.