Some weeks ago, when Autumn was at it's peak with it's colourful show, I went hunting with the camera for interesting subjects to photograph. There will be a separate post with those photos. The Belvedere

It's been a while since the latest update on the chart, but development has been steadily moving forwards behind the scenes. There's been a number of fixes and changes, so here's a few of them. Trade markers

"Ambergris", 24 x 30 cm is the latest painting I'd like to share with you. The painting is one of mystery, what is the woman doing, what is she looking at? There is the phrase, shrouded in mystery,

I'm back again with a new oil painting, "Blue Angel", 30 x 40cm. It was started at the beginning of the month, but a few things got in the way of me completing it, an Open Source programming

I breathed #life into an old painting and updated it, which is appropriate since the theme is Persephone. The story of Persephone comes from the ancient Greeks. It tells how, Persephone, the beautiful

Looking up at blue skies adorned with fluffy clouds casually wandering across the horizon take us away from the hustle and bustle of every day life. They can have a calming effect on the mind. In that

I just completed this small landscape today. It was painted on one of my self-made canvas boards, that I made out of canvas offcuts and plywood. While I save a little money, it does cost time to make them.

It's a time for me to tidy up loose ends. This new painting, was actually started back in 2021, but then languished in the studio, when I did not know how to complete it... until now. Tree of Life represents

After all of the work implementing the changes for the generic indicator class, it was time to put the theory into practice and implement the first custom indicator with it, Trade Flow. The concept of

Austria is peppered with castles, especially to the East where throughout history most invasions came, where many trade routes came and went. At the very southern end of Lower Austria, in the in the

I was re-organizing the studio and came across this painting which forms a part of my Tree series. It is oils painted atop a thin layer of silver metal (aluminium) applied to a wood panel box. Because

TradeX has reached a major milestone. The inbuilt Indicator classes, which implement TALib, now only require configuration properties (objects) and the constructor class, with the parent class now building

Work is pressing ahead on refactoring parent indicator class generic enough that all it needs is a config object to draw new indicators. This should speed up implementing new ones, and make building user

I've been working in the kitchen and studio again. After the success of photographing the reference for "Daily Bread" painting, I wanted to experiment with it further. This time, I used ink to

I've been working my way through Rembrandt's self-portraits over the years, this one being from 1669. This also happened to be the final year of his life, having outlived, his wife and son. Why copy Old

It's been a while since I posted an update on TradeX chart. There's been plenty of development, and as with many programming projects, much of the work often goes unnoticed, because it is not immediately

I recently made a post about baking sour dough bread. So while photographing the bread fresh from the oven, I realised that it might potentially be suitable for a painting. So after enjoying some warm

I haven't done a food post in a while, and since I've been trying something new in the kitchen, here's the chance to blog it. This is my second attempt at baking a sour dough bread. I think it was rather

The recent Apple iPad Pro advertisement has sparked intense reactions and criticism online, with it being interpreted as the technologists celebrating with glee, the crushing of individual human creative

I was very fortunate last year one of my collectors gave me two painting commissions. The previous post, Golden Light 2.5 and this one. "Burning Desire II", 50 x 70cm, oil on canvas As you can