#069 Comics

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the last few days paintings have been posted from my mobile phone while I have been visiting my family in wildest Norfolk! My Dad was very sucesfull this morning in sending us away with lots of things he has been trying to offload for a while now. These two comics are part of  a big ole stack of Spiderman comics. Specifically two editions of 'Spiderman and The Hulk team up' oh...I must have been in 8 yr old heaven.

#068 Skittle

Playing with my three nephews is not only top fun and utterly knackering, its a great excuse to paint brightly coloured toys.

#067 Wheel

This is actually the wheel from a telephone, not mine you understand its my nephews. My phone doesn't have any wheels, shame.

#066 Vase

This is one of my Mums vases, it looked so nice and fresh this morning which is the opposite of what I look like!

#065 book

This is the corner of a book about 'Art from Far Lands' and has some lovely photos of indian sculpture and painting and some great middle east stuff.  Bought this morning form the library at work (Pittville) where they are selling off lots of the old stock....sad but, I get this lovely thing!

#064 Gloves

This is two fingers of a pair of gloves, I'm not being rude it just is two fingers!

#063 Bass String end

This is veeeery obscure its the end of one of my bass guitar strings it is wound with red cotton and I thought it looked rather fetching with its shadow.

#062 Radio

In good 'Dan Young, Daily' fashion I have used my daily life as inspiration for todays painting. This is a section of a my studio radio. I was talking on the Fay Hatcher show on the radio this afternoon about all sorts of things including these daily paintings, life after University, papier mache beer adverts and evening classes (the one I teach is the painting styles and techniques, of course! Other courses are available;) ). Visit the BBC Gloucestershire 'listen again' service to well.. ummm.. listen again, I appear at about 40 mins in for two slots either side of Elton John!

#061 Bag of Potatoes

The gardeners among you may have been caught up in a 'Potato Event' or 'Potato Day' or even a 'Spud Bash'. Today has been my first experience of such an event. What we found upon going to what is a normally very quiet garden centre was cars parked all over the road, two flourescent jacket wearing parking attendants, people everywhere and a bewildering array of types of potatos to choose from, with lots of overheard conversations about potato varieties, chips/roasties even the dreaded blight. You can buy huge sacks, individual spuds or mix and match your 'apples of the ground'. We chose a sensibly sized paper bag of 'Oriana' a first early salad potato with a waxy texture. I expect over the year there will be some more daily details of the pots!

#060 Penknife

I liked last nights knife handle so much here is my penknife handle no long history with this one though!

#059 Stanley Knife

Todays daily detail is the shaft of  my stanley knife, I have had it, I think, since I first went to art school in Norwich in 1994, which is why the blue paint has flaked off and you can see the grey metal underneath which here is reminiscent of a  big ole Norfolk skyscape with flat beach underneath it.

#058 Pan Lid Handle

This is the pan lid handle of my gesso pot, I must make some more boards, I am running out of different sizes and I am enjoying the different sized paintings this year.

#057 Apples

Joyeux anniversaire Monsieur Cézanne!

#056 Green Bananas

We bought some new Bananas, very green ones as you can see. The two yellow ones in the background are for tomorrow...I just hope the others will ripen in time..it'll be okay if they don't it would just be nice that's all.