Friday 5 June 2020
by Wulf
Comments Off on Grey Guitar
Today I wanted to use up some of the ‘chromatic black’ I mixed up the other day so I did a fairly simple watercolour sketch of one of my guitars – mainly a mid-tone, followed by a dark tone and … Continue reading
Tuesday 21 January 2020
by Wulf
Comments Off on Banjonly connect
Apologies (moderately sincere) for the blatant misquoting of E M Forster’s famous phrase but it came to mind when I was thinking about my latest banjo revelation, namely that it isn’t too dissimilar from a guitar. In general terms, it … Continue reading
Thursday 26 December 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on A Little Music
It has been a while since I posted any of my sketches – it’s not that I’ve not been keeping up the practice of sketching but I’ve fallen a bit behind on scanning and publishing the results. Here is one … Continue reading
Sunday 24 November 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on Instruments
I decided to do a bit of art yesterday afternoon. It was already getting dark, so I didn’t get the watercolours out, but spend an hour or so working with a graphite pencil and some water. Here is one of … Continue reading
Thursday 24 October 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on New Strings Day for the Variax
The fact that I had to check an online video as revision probably suggest a lot about how often I get round to changing strings on my instruments – a tendency exacerbated by the fact that my main bass uses … Continue reading
Friday 16 August 2019
by Wulf
Comments Off on Questions to ask in guitar shops
I’m not in the market for a new guitar but I’ve got a friend who is wanting to buy one as a gift. The recipient plays a number of instruments, including ukulele, but the other ones are things like keyboard … Continue reading
Thursday 13 September 2018
by Wulf
Comments Off on 21st Century Boy
The 21st century is full of bad news, such as increasing pollution, rampant climate change and certain political leaders on domestic and global stages. However, it has to be said that, as far as guitar amps go, things are highly … Continue reading