It’s been too long since I’ve put brush to canvas.

This morning, I got out my paints, some paper to cover the table, a drop sheet for the floor, and an unused canvas.

I hammered wedges into the corners of the canvas to remove the slack. I mixed paint with water in a small jar. I brushed on the first coat with the canvas resting on two wooden slats.

On Kawara would make his date paintings in a day. If a painting were unfinished that day, he’d destroy it. As much as I’d like to complete this one in a day, it will take at least a couple of days.

It’s good to be painting again.

Ripping the magazine, the torn paper becomes a daub of paint, and I feel a sense of freedom. As my confidence grows in using this medium, I enjoy how the colleges are becoming more painterly and the structures increasingly complex.

I’ve been deep in proposal writing over the last few weeks, and with only a limited capacity for screen time, something had to give – hence no newsletters.

Now I’m out on the other side of the proposal (and with my post-concussion symptoms slowly improving), I thought I’d say hi!

Yesterday I started to play with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature (in beta). It’s pretty bonkers. You can take an existing image, expand the canvas, click the Generative Fill button and have the computer generate a fill based on the image. People have been taking famous record sleeves and generating what might exist beyond the frame.

I thought I’d do the same for one of my daily drawings. Here’s a step-by-step with a couple of variations for the final image.