I've been having a little play, now I have finally got rid of my cold, its a good friends big birthday and she loves doing crafty stuff, so I have had a bash a doing a crafty cake as a surprise for her.

This is a little musical montage of my latest painting, I have been having a play and experimenting with movie stuff, excuse the quality of the pictures, they were done on my phone.This is only small 12 x 9 and is acrylic on board, which I haven't used before. The painting features my Dad and my uncles at a recent family wedding, I wouldn't usually paint the faces because in my other works faces are not relevant , they are just figures, but felt I had to have a go because they are people known to me. That was a challenge in itself and not one I particularly enjoyed.

I had a brief visit to Manchester Art gallery this week, they have an 'interesting' exhibition on called Do It!
An eclectic mix of things for you to do from active to the absurd and philosophical.
I treated myself to a book about Edward Hopper, whilst browsing in the shop, although I've been to busy to do any thing other than just flick through it at the moment.