KatesMedicalSeries-5

February 26, 2021

Another from the medical series on paintings, another atypical piece in that here we have some bottles, with labels on them, more difficult to apply a twist and potentially to make it interesting.

KatesMedicalSeries-4

February 26, 2021

The first portrait of my girlfriend with her tube!. My main aim here was to capture her beautiful personality and to define a new lighting setup, a dappling type of sunlight across the face. Unusually for a portrait the face is very cropped and it took me a while to get this balance spot on.

KatesMedicalSeries-3

February 26, 2021

A continuation of my medical series, this time face on with my girlfriend. Quite a simple and quick portrait, but the more I look at it the more I like it, the skin tones are flatter that I normally render and I was content with little dynamic lighting and I liked the unfinished look.

KatesMedicalSeries-1

February 26, 2021

Another part of my girlfriends medical series in which we paint a common occurrence when one goes to a hospital in that a tube is put in your arm. An interesting challenge in technically this could be quite a boring painting, so I tried to add extra impact by focussing on texture.

Zookitup

November 4, 2020

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phrase

To draw up moisture, air, etc, as if by suction. Can apply to bread among gravy, a straw in a milkshake or in the suction capabilities of a septic tank.

usage

Yes James you can finish off that curry, the septic tank will probably Zookitup

Zidane you're rocking the boat....

November 4, 2020

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phrase

To instruct a person to refrain from standing in a boat hence averting extreme levels of boat rockage. Solely relies on the similarity between "sit down" and the surname of a head butting French footballing nutcase.

usage

Zidane you're rocking the boat

You Know More Than Me Gungerrook

November 4, 2020

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phrase

To indicate that the person in question is of superior quality or excellence. This is a typical rook variant of dadspeak and has been adapted from of a line of the poem Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling.

usage

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Rook!

Yosemite

November 4, 2020

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place

An American national park located in the western Sierra Nevada of central California. A deliberate mispronouncing to minimise crossword embarrassment.

usage

When I say Whoa!, I mean whoa!