Just when you think it can't get any worse it does... a severe case of gout has now decided to visit my ankle, I can't even put my fucking foot on the floor. WHAT NEXT a visit by jihadists (bless them) a case of gallopping piochy a visit by the pope??

I have had a horrendous time since the last post(that sounds bad) I had so much pain I had to resort to TRAMADOL believe me if you ever get severe pain and the doc prescribes TRAMADOL don't take it!!! I was on the maximum dose allowed for about 10 days and then the pain went, so I stopped taking it....BAD IDEA....

I, without knowing the reason why(at that time), it is a mind bending opiate (Heroin), went into severe anxiety, agitation, impending doom, and any other fucking symptom of mental problems you can think of.Forgot despair!!

It has taken at least 7 days to get over it, by taking the correct stopping procedure, which by the way not one person ie the doctor or pharmacist or any one else told me about!!

Touch wood, I am finally feeling better as of this time 10:10 Thusday morning.

So now on to less doom filled news.

This morning on checking my twitter acc I came across a tweet by St Cuthberts Mill, which is the home of the Saunders Waterford, Bockingford and other papers maker.

This is the website of one of the most exciting painters I have discovered for sometime, HERE Check out his work.

Bloody cheap razors! by the way the scar goes another 6 inches further up out of the top of the pictire. Technically it is a popliteal artery anuerism bypass graft, nontechnically,f###### painful!..... 7hrs on the table.

Yet another palette, I am going to try a limited palette for my next few paintings and see how I get on. I really will have to spend more time painting than faffing about with palettes and colours. GET ON WITH IT SMITH. Just came across this website of a very talented artist HERE.

This is my latest palette, homemade of course! made from an inking tray and thin strips of plastic superglued into place.

Rain on the Way. Painted in roughly 20 mins image is 12"x9" From the imagination and remembering the gravel pits around Kings Lynn.

This is the palette I am using at the moment but my palettes change as quickly as my underpants.....

Jo Cox was killed by a scumbag terrorist called Thomas Mair, as all terrorists are he was a coward, to shoot a defenceless woman and then stab her, and then be proud of it is beyond comprehension for normal people! Or is it? he was following  twisted right wing ideology which is more rife than the government would have us believe. Who needs ISIS when you have homegrown terrorists. 

I served my country for 9 years, I came under fire twice, and I have a medal for active service. BRITAIN FIRST are calling me a traitor and should be hanged for wishing to remain in the EU. They are the true traitors!!!

This is my entry into the SAA (Society for all artists) "Our photo your painting" competition. Pen and wash in a loose manner, not overly pleased with it, but it is something new for me. Might try some more competitions.  

"Wetherfukawi" This watercolour is based on the traditional art of the Central African Wetherfukawi tribe. They are a pygmy like tribe of an average height of 3 feet, and they live in an area of 6 feet tall grass, and their name comes from the cry that can be heard for miles..... WETHERFUKAWI ....WETHERFUKAWI.

My latest watercolour, "Turbulent Times Referendumitus" title courtesy of Trevor.

This is Trev's latest painting...Love it, watercolour/ink, airbrush you name it it is in this great painting.

Do you like the title? Well some pretentious morons might like it!! Or i could have called it "Crowded Isolation" both titles totally meaninless, but if that's what it takes to create meaningful art then that is the way it's got to be, forget the content and just give it an enigmatic/meaningless title and all of a sudden it becomes a work of art.

Just pulled this one out of the archives. A top notch pen and wash by dear Harold Williams of Spalding.

Here's one I done earlier...purely from imagination and memories of my life as a child on a farm.