Musical Quotations

I've been neglecting this blog again, so to any regulars that may be disappointed, sorry about that!

Rewinding to March, I devised a theme for my next series of paintings. Progress so far has been quite slow, but with any luck, more paintings should gradually start appearing on here.

The series will be called Musical Quotations, and portrays scenes from some of my favourite music videos... The term "favourite" in this instance will be pretty loose: It could be well-known masterpieces, interesting independent videos, aesthetically-pleasing sequences, a performer/song that I like, or simply a random video with one particular shot that I appreciate: We'll see what happens.

I've already made 2 paintings, and I'll post them up over the coming days. But in the meantime, for more regular updates, you should 'like' my facebook page Art of Andy R Macpherson.

What is... May

This year has been fair flying-by... And here already is May's calendar image:

It is a computer screenshot from when TV personality, Cat Cubie, tweeted one of my cartoons around the world to her near 4000 twitter followers. It was unexpected and really made my day!

The cartoon depicts HRH Charles Prince of Wales hijacking the BBC's Reporting Scotland weather studio, around about this time last year. I'm just disappointed that he still hasn't been made a regular weather presenter!

If interested, you can read more about the special weather report & this cartoon by visiting my original blog post about it at:
http://armacpherson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/charles-prince-of-weather.html

Some self-portraits

For lack of a better subject, I've been creating some self-portraits recently.

April 2013. Pen on paper.

April 2013. Digital painting.

December 2012. Digital painting.

There's a load of other projects that I'll be able to share soon, but not quite yet I'm afraid. Stay tuned!

What is... April

April's calendar image is of Chatelherault near Hamilton, Scotland.

It was a very large acrylic-on-card commission, completed in July 2011.

Not my best painting (particularly the vivid green foreground), but I hadn't painted with acrylics for a long time and found the process quite tricky to be honest.

I tried to take a little inspiration from Edward Hopper, who has for the longest time been one of my favourite painters.

I should really do more landscape painting, but finding inspiration seems to have been the hard part for the past few years! Got any ideas? If so, I'd love to hear them.