26/7/12-a little more done to my Ramones painting and a new piece started, it's another 'day of the dead' themed pencil drawing using pencil, charcoal and pen.

5/7/12-Just added a bit more to my Ramones acrylic painting, it's going to take a lot longer than I first thought even though it's only black and white. The Siouxsie Sioux pencil drawing is now completed though.

14/6/12-finally managed to do a bit more work to my Ramones painting (not a lot though) and made a start on a pencil drawing of Siouxsie Sioux, lest see how it comes out.

26/5/12-just a quick note to say i'm slowly getting back to health after a bout of chronic pancreatitis, no idea where it came from but has knocked me bandy for the last 6 weeks with 3 of them been flat on my back in hospital, should soon be getting back to work hopefully.

14/4/12-Just a quick update on the Ramones picture, a lot to do but the paint is building up nice.

3/4/12-Well I went at it in no uncertain terms and finished the lighthouse miniature in no time at all and am quite pleased with the result considering I have very little experience with colours. The Ramones picture is also started but that will be a lot longer to finish with having to build up the shades.

31/3/12-Going to start two new pieces today in acrylics, one is a black and white picture of the much missed and highly influential American punk rock band the Ramones, while the other is another attempt at colours, working on an exercise from an excellent book by Priscilla Hauser, called 'Little Landscapes' which is all about painting miniatures.