C.A. Monks

Oil on canvas. Linseed. Cad red, grey, white, yellow ochre, raw umber, green, blue, brown. #art #painting

Oil on canvas. Linseed oil. Grey, blue, raw umber, white. #art #painting #TheLastHopeInHell

Oil on canvas. Linseed oil. Paynes grey, white, van dyke brown, sap green, yellow ochre, raw umber, blue. #art #Painting #TheLastHopeInHell

An unplanned warm-up. Oil on canvas. Linseed. Raw umber, white, paynes grey, blue, sap green. #art #painting #TheLastHopeInHell

Oil on canvas. Linseed oil. Paynes grey, crimson, raw umber, sap green blue, white. #art #painting

I'm beginning to love using this tonalism style. Oil on canvas. Linseed oil. Paynes grey, crimson, raw umber, sap green blue, white, vandyke brown. #art #painting

Linseed. Oil on canvas board. Paynes grey, white, ultramarine blue, sap green, burnt sienna, cad red. #art

18" x 24". Linseed. Red. Sap green. Paynes grey. White. Naples yellow. #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ

Oil on canvas board. Liquin. Cad orange. Primary red. Paynes grey. Black. White. Ultramarine. Burnt umber. Nice way to spend 40 minutes. No plan, just picking up a brush and seeing what happens #art

Oil on canvas board. Liquin. Paynes grey. Raw umber. Alizarin crimson. White. #Art

oils on canvas. 45x35cm. #art

Finally got a chance to finish this.

I'm not one who enjoys blowing smoke up my own fundament, but I truly believe I've written a great book. Honestly, I'm naturally self-deprecating, I wouldn't ever declare such a thing if I didn't think it was true.

The Last Hope in Hell. Available now, free on KindleUnlimited. a.co/d/09Uw0dzr

The Last Hope in Hell Long is the path and hard, that leads out of Hell and into the Light. #kindle a.co/d/0beE3BqP

Available now on Kindle. Long is the path and hard, that leads out of Hell and into the Light. amzn.eu/d/091dni6u

Work in progress. Not sure how I'm taking this forward. Super loose? Correction? Lean into impressionism? I'll figure it out. Probably.

90x60. Oil on canvas. Mostly raw umber, cad orange, white, Prussian blue, Paynes grey. Wondering if I could do that again in an extremely loose style. #art

"Eventually, every quote will be attributed to Mark Twain." - Mark Twain.

Had to try out the new easel. A quick 40 min painting. #art #MerryChristmas

Landscape in oils on canvas. Liquin. Prussian blue, paynes grey, burnt sienna, vandyke brown, lemon yellow, white.

"An author must have a social media platform to get a publishing deal." - George Orwell, 23rd October 1984.

Today, someone accused me of being woke. Yeah. Thanks for the compliment.

Everybody is a fucking idiot. You, me, them, everybody. Realise, compensate, THINK!

I'd planned to write today. Yesterday, I mentally prepared myself to have a long 7-8 hour writing session on my new novel. So, naturally, I painted this instead...

The essential satire of the summer. #reading #booksky amzn.eu/d/9tbIgwn

The essential satire of the summer. #reading #booksky amzn.eu/d/9tbIgwn

Olivia Rodrigo has a new fan. I'm going to add her to the list of women I'm totally in love with. Currently: 109,783.

If you go back a million minutes, you're in February. If you go back a billion minutes you're in the 1990's. If you go back a trillion minutes, you're arguing with God about the shape of mountains. (Nb: some of this might be mostly inaccurate)

Watched a bit of #Glastonbury on TV. So far, the highlights have been Wet Leg, Franz Ferdinand, and Neil Young. So talented, but they make it look so effortless.

I'm getting a weird sensation that i should write a biography of the Austrian singer Falco. I'm trying to ignore the signs. My efforts aren't working.

Neil Young just has that ge nay say quwa. (Pardon my French) He is a fucking legend, though.

Oh, I'm so ahead of the curve... I thought rod stewart was a twat yonks ago. His songs are crap, his style is crap, his personality is crap. Quite frankly, I was hoping for the apocalypse only for the reason that he lives relatively close to me and I'd be justified using him as food in an emergency

I'm willing to give bluesky a proper go, but the engagement level is woeful. This is probably a waste of my time.

Flooding the zone with shit is a media strategy designed to wear you out. Every media conduit is either a commercial entity or mimics a commercial entity. The answer is simple: Stop consuming. Stop watching. Stop participating. Stop giving them what they want.

Oh Saint Jebus, I'm so tired. Please Gad, lit ma schleep tonickt an eel love you forever. I jist wanna me brain back.

Social media tip: The instant your interlocutor starts trying to initiate an argument, leave the chat. If you've got some bedevilment about you, you can garnish your departure with "LOL, you're a c**t!" But that's entirely up to you. And that concludes my TED talk.

John Donne never met me. Though that was probably my fault.

Oh, here, have a picture of Valetta in Malta, you deserve it.

Okay, God, brass tacks... there's a few things you can improve upon. If you want to retain your reputation of infallibility, you'll have to pull your socks up. Err... Amen.

I can't wait to finish my current novel because I'm compelled to write the next one. After 4 novels, I considered taking a year off. That thought lasted half a day.

Hey, humanity, you just go ahead and put pineapple on anything you like. Don't allow people to limit you.

Squirrel Impossible

Writing can be cathartic. Editing is nailing your plums to a desk and seeing how far you can run before you start screaming.

Really, nobody knows anything. So, let's just muddle along trying to be nice to each other for a while, and see where that gets us. Maybe it'll work out ok, maybe it won't, but it's worth experimenting.

Oh, you tech bros are going to harvest all our creativity for A.I. learning because the CURRENT administrations are giving you a pass? Okay. Fine. We'll see you later. Get your chequebooks ready.

I wrote this using some words I found on the internet. That's why so many of them begin with F. Undeadwood amzn.eu/d/397cmQs

If we can get 3 other religions to find people do to the M, the C, and the A, we might just get through these turbulent times without nuclearing ourselves to extinction.