<![CDATA[ - BLOG]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:35:06 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Photo of me interviewing Irvine Welsh (!!) a couple of months ago. Welcome to Mexico City, where anything can, and does, happen.]]>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:17:47 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/photo-of-me-interviewing-irvine-welsh-a-couple-of-months-ago-welcome-to-mexico-city-where-anything-can-and-does-happen
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]]><![CDATA[Sleeping beauty or just some chicken legs on a crumpled napkin?]]>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:36:14 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/december-07th-2018.. eh... my first attempt at a proper oil painting in... almost 30 years. Holy banana what a nightmare. This is a work in progress... we'll see what develops... wish me luck! 
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]]><![CDATA[New piece! 'Si a todo!' - installed at Capitan Gallo ahead of next week's exhibit.]]>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:44:43 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/new-piece-si-a-todo-installed-at-capitan-gallo-ahead-of-next-weeks-exhibit
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]]><![CDATA[Coming up this sunday! Nov 25th!]]>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:28:10 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/coming-up-this-sunday-nov-25thArticle here 
]]><![CDATA[And so it begins.... First recording session of Things To Read Before You Run Out Of Air....]]>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:01:55 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/and-so-it-begins-first-recording-session-of-things-to-read-before-you-run-out-of-air
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The infamous 'Panda Woman' - recorded today! 
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]]><![CDATA[All in a day's work...]]>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 01:49:23 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/all-in-a-days-work
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Fooling around after sunday's shoot with three of the most bad ass women you'll ever meet.
​Tú También Cabrón! 
Before and after.... It's possible I'm the only person who has told 'La Briosa' what to do and lived to tell the tale... 
]]><![CDATA[Your Call Is Important To Us...]]>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 23:05:47 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/your-call-is-important-to-us
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Ya no nos hablamos! (I'm not talking to you anymore!' You can't see it on this photo, but in very small letters on the red phone it says 'I still love you...' 
]]><![CDATA[Down in front!]]>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:30:55 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/down-in-frontPoses drawn sitting down, which i'd prefer not to do but there were no easels!! 
20 minute poses - charcoal on paper
10 minute poses - charcoal on paper
5 minute poses - charcoal on paper
2 minute poses - charcoal on paper
]]><![CDATA[And another...]]>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:32:30 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/and-anotherThis time it's pencil... an interesting exercise... we had to draw the outline of the figure without taking our pencil off the paper... (!) ... i think this was a half hour pose... quite exhausting to be honest! 
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]]><![CDATA[(Olfactory) memories are made of this....]]>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:09:00 GMThttp://www.mattwillisjones.com/blog/olfactory-memories-are-made-of-thisOne with of linseed oil and I am transported back to 1992, in the art department at King's Canterbury, painting rocks on a truly awful Dali inspired monstrosity... I read something somewhere - a quote from someone of some artistic repute - where they said you always have your taste, but your skills have to catch up with it. Sorry darling but that's absolute rubbish. You taste evolves as you grow. If i had the same (lack of) taste I had when I was 18..... sheesh.. what a nightmare... 

Anyway... today I'd like to think my taste has evolved in the last quarter century! 

From today's figure drawing class.... Oil on paper, 1 hour pose.
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