Marazion Breaker

These waves are based on photographs taken at Marazion, Cornwall, in December 2013.

LEGO Minifigures 61: Red Knight

Another part of my plan. Knights are known for moving curiously. This fellow looks like he might take a few steps forward before sidling this way...

And watch while the queen/In one false move/Turns herself into a pawn

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

Skyline

"Skyline" - new photograph, taken in daylight

There's a lovely ridge very near here where the field sweeps up to a horizon that plays host to a number of trees. It's a subject I keep eyeing up from the footpath, and I have a large collection of photographs of it in all seasons. This painting is based on a photograph taken one evening in July, with the wheat almost ripe and the sky ominously laden with cloud.

Lego Minifigures 14: "Red Queen"

Another of Bethnoir's loaned minifigures; I think this must be a queen from the Kingdom range, but I have just called her the Red Queen, which brings to mind a character in Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking Glass. That Red Queen was a chess piece (another series I had in mind... although my chess set is quite plain), of course, and this regal lady is not.

And before you go calling for their heads to be removed, remember that it was the Queen of Hearts (in Alice in Wonderland) whose catchphrase was "Off with their heads!"

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm