069 Watercolour dirty water jar - part I - oil on linen

Throughout the six years and 69 days of Dan Young, Daily I have forced myself to make a painting, drawing or print every day. Today I am starting a painting in a more 'normal' manner. So here you can see me fumbling around trying to get some marks in about the right place to paint my dirty watercolour  jar. Tomorrow I will continue with this painting and who knows I might finish it... Or I might not. That is the way with paintings sometimes. The little buggers don't always get finished in one sitting! 

This has been my water jar since I was a student. It was in an old student house and was used by a previous tenant to store all of her old bits of soap, it took some time to get rid of the fragrance... But I think it makes a rather swanky pot to rinse my water.

068 Tube of red paint

A wonderful, if nearly empty, tube of delicious cadmium red. Possibly the main inspiration for this years year of red paintings. This composite painting is going to take a pause for a while, I might have finished it I might not have but I need to get away from it. And I make the rules for Dan Young, Daily so I can do whatever I want. As long as it is red.

And yes I will try and get a decent photo of this painting soon because it isn't very clear...

067 Chilli Pepper

On a cold wintry day such as this I like to think of sunnier times and places. The sorts of times and places that might grow chilli peppers!

066 Flat head screwdriver

The flat head is not my favourite screwdriver but a necessary evil.

065 Red Bowl

This is my favourite piece of ceramic ever and was given to me by world renowned, internationally  collected artist, and m'(ex)colleague Jeff Powell. I use it to keep all sorts of things in from fruit to invoices..... I prefer to keep it empty because, well, it's red. It is currently banished from our main living spaces due to puppy craziness so it currently has a red wind up lobster in it. Now that is a painting that might happen....

064 ibuprofen

As you know when I feel poorly I tend to find 'easier' objects to paint. 'Fortunately' our ibuprofen tablets are red...

063 Hammer

I hbe been doing a bit of wall drilling today so I got to use my red hammer to bang in wall plugs.

062 Ladybird

061 red vase

060 chicken tikka masala

My favourite Takeaway, and it's red, chicken tikka masala.

059 Dog Lead

We went to our first puppy class this evening. Wow.

058 Tulip

I bought tulips from the shop

They were red and green

I put one in a picture

057 Red Guitar

Avid followers of this blog and selected friends and family will know that this is my very first guitar that I got on my 13th birthday, I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix. I have probably come as close to being Jimi Hendrix as I was ever going to get...

056 Dog Collar

This is our dogs collar, bottom right, which I had to move up a notch today because she is getting bigger (because she is a puppy not because we are over feeding her!)