It's been a while...

Last post was more than a year ago. Wow, time really does fly. Finally started doing some painting and drawing, it took me a very long time to get fired up again. After all the work on the new house, I was so anxious to start again, but somehow I couldn't, wouldn't, hesitated and despaired a little. Lots of self doubt, unsure of the direction to take, but had loads of time to think things through though.
It's going to be all about texture and bold colours. It's about time I admitted to myself that certain areas of painting are not for me, because of my colour blindness. I will never be able to see subtle colour differences, so I will no longer try to go there. Whenever I'm in a museum or gallery, I'm always drawn to paintings and drawings with lots of texture, so I figured that that's the way for me. Trying to no longer be afraid of colours, using them as bold as I can, with loads and loads of texture. Anyway, working on lots of paintings at the moment, in oil and pastel. Will post soon. This is a drawing (partial scan) I'm working on every now and then, the squid man. It's going to need a lot more work, maybe I'll throw in some fish as well, who knows...