by jamesnaughton | Feb 24, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Action Man I think I always knew there would be a time when the work would possibly take over and my attempts to catalogue it’s progress on the blog might become more difficult than I had assumed. When the work first began I was struck that my passing thoughts...
by jamesnaughton | Jan 20, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Water Falls An update on my watercolour attempts is long overdue. I’ve shifted my attention onto the Canyon as subject matter, with the results so far seemingly separating along two paths. I have a sketchpad which I decided would be dedicated to the experience...
by jamesnaughton | Jan 19, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
The Lost Canyon After completing an initial sketch for the larger Canyon works I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks working with colour glazes over the umber base. I usually varnish after this first layer, this is great as I can move the colour around and...
by jamesnaughton | Jan 6, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Links to the Past Each page of the buffalo sketchbook seems to be an invitation to discover more about the animal, myself and the very nature of art. I am so used to dealing with the subject of landscape these studies have a freedom and experimentation that seems born...
by jamesnaughton | Dec 6, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Dreamworks I am preparing to move up in scale from the Canyon studies. My thoughts keep returning to a dream I started to experience a day or so after first visiting the site. In the dream the RV was precariously balanced on the edge of a collapsing precipice. I can...
by jamesnaughton | Nov 29, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Time and Pressure I arrive at the print room, it’s moved to a different campus but there is a very reassuring presence here, in the form of the printing presses on which my first prints were produced 20 years ago. A printer has a very unique attachment to...
