The Artist’s Notebook

The Artist’s Notebook is my studio journal containing notes on my ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into my creative process and artistic practice.

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The Artist’s Notebook
27 Jan 11:02 • Paul Watson

Monthly Link Dump: January 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...

The Artist’s Notebook
19 Jan 14:33 • Paul Watson

Blake’s 7

Earlier today I heard that there was yet another attempt being made to reboot the late 70s TV show Blake’s 7. I have a particular fondness for Blake’s 7 and b...

The Artist’s Notebook
12 Jan 12:39 • Paul Watson

Life Drawing - 11th January 2026

A fragment of the first drawing from the session I managed to get my first 2026 session of life-drawing done this past weekend. I was trying to find a particul...

The Artist’s Notebook
01 Jan 14:26 • Paul Watson

2026 plans: artwork & community

This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my website back in August 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence f...

The Artist’s Notebook
30 Dec 12:57 • Paul Watson

Monthly Link Dump: December 2025

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...

The Artist’s Notebook
14 Dec 16:05 • Paul Watson

Where do I see the IndieWeb in 2030?

This is my contribution to December’s IndieWeb Carnival hosted by V.H. Belvadi on the subject where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030, just five short years fro...

The Artist’s Notebook
26 Nov 19:36 • Paul Watson

Monthly Link Dump: November 2025

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...

The Artist’s Notebook
10 Nov 21:05 • Paul Watson

Pattern recognition

The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is chan...

The Artist’s Notebook
30 Oct 11:46 • Paul Watson

Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace

Opinion polling graph for the next United Kingdom general election (post-2024) from Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 I...

The Artist’s Notebook
27 Oct 17:40 • Paul Watson

Monthly Link Dump: October 2025

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...

The Artist’s Notebook
21 Oct 12:43 • Paul Watson

Month Notes, October 2025

The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2025. Photograph by the author. This weekend just past was the Hastings Borough Bonfire Soc...

The Artist’s Notebook
09 Oct 16:20 • Paul Watson

Subscribe to this blog via … ActivityPub

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog. I usually post a link to any new blog post on my social medi...

The Artist’s Notebook
07 Oct 19:54 • Paul Watson

Various early-October musings

Now that the evenings are getting dark earlier I feel more inclined to put some of my time aside to make a few changes to this website. I’m thinking of adding...

The Artist’s Notebook
05 Oct 08:46 • Paul Watson

Prefiguration

Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote: The problem with modern democr...

The Artist’s Notebook
24 Sep 08:38 • Paul Watson

Monthly Link Dump: September 2025

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...