TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you This brilliantly over-the-top comedy about an unworldly heckler explores art and authenticity – being tripped up by it is part of the fun

TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you

Decorative floor tile from Romsey Abbey in Hampshire depicting a medieval knight. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomseyAbbey #Medieval

When will One Of Us be available in UK?

sketches for today

Shelley Winters, or what's left of her, in a submerged car, as seaweed wafts about her.

Sorry to spoil a 70-year-old movie, but this is one of the greatest shots in the history of cinema, and it's amazing that they didn't ride Laughton out of town on a rail.

Excellent interview with Roger L Taylor www.stewarthomesociety.org/pol/taylor.htm

St. Francis Borgia attends to an unrepentant dying man, holding a crucifix, as demons lie in wait around the dying man

Francisco de Goya. St. Francis Borgia attends to an unrepentant dying man as demons lie in wait, 1788 (Capilla de San Francisco de Borja, Valencia Cathedral). Goya looks so wonderfully out of place in a church.

There, behind the curtain -- the Oude Kerk in Delft, painted (with curtain) in 1654 by Gerard Houckgeest. It's his day today.

2/2 Same curtain, same church, now featuring the tomb of Piet Hein. Always the patriot, Gerard Houckgeest, here in 1652.

Beautiful drawings. I love the quality of line. I also like the fact that they don't delineate forms, but work tonally. From the inside out.

Amazing the light catching the roof of her mouth. Do you think he would've had photographic resource material?

2/2 The singer. The glove. The perfection! By the ever-amazing Edgar Degas in 1878.

Painting day today. Think I can finish it this week.

Watercolour study to help with current painting.

Holbein

Holbein

Wow! Amazing images.

Bosschaert

Got to be Holbein.

I love the sword casually thrown over her shoulder. Just another tiring day.

Arnolfini?

Thinking about Thomas Kinsella and Philippe Vandenberg talking about how making things (poems and paintings) is different if you have an oeuvre. There's less pressure on each individual piece. More importantly, less pressure in the making. Maybe I could paint as if I have an oeuvre. Just thinking.

How many paintings makes an oeuvre? A little oeuvre.

Bowl

Lunch time. Summer is a strange country. Thinking about that J G Ballard sentence about finding the angle of light alien in the UK. Homesick for mud, white skies and dark empty trees. Obvs that's ridiculous.

Saw this in Saint Mary's Church, Shelton, while having my lunch.

Sketch for Sphinx picture

Child's drawings and Cyrillic letters scrawled on birch

Drawings and writing on birch bark by Onfim, a 6- or 7-year-old boy who lived in Novgorod, Russia, in the mid-12th century. There are 17 preserved documents, including this one, as well as letter 199 (not pictured) that shows "a portrait of himself, disguised as a fantastic animal"

One of the highlights of my recent visit to Canterbury Cathedral. Could be a Seraphim. I'm uncertain about the celestial hierarchy. But I love the strong outlines and the way the figure is taken right to the edges.

Painting day today.