PT Phiz

I've added a new category for Caton so that paintings of Caton can be found easily: as Terry lived there for nearly 40 years there are several. I've gone back and re-classified Lune paintings as Caton (as well as Lune) where they show the reaches of the Lune near Caton. To avoid ambiguity of this, I've opted to use the stretches of the Lune which the Lancaster and District Angling Association (LDAA) refer to as the Caton beat since that is the stretch that Terry fished (and of which I remain a member).

As the number of categories are increasing, I've also moved Caton as a sub-category of Lancaster and set Lancaster, Lune etc as sub-categories as Landscape.

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Not of which may matter to you ;) but I've also added another watercolour.

Just to say that I am back to updating the site again. The photos I have avaialable imediately could do with some processing but that will have to wait. I'll be adding several pictures over the next few weeks.

Just to say I now have some snaps and am back on line (I got stuck in Bangkok when Suvarnabhumi international airport was blockaded by PAD) and hope to get more pictures onto the site in the next few days.

Sorry for the delay in updating. I've now got an Internet connection again but I'm waiting for my brother to take some photos for me of the next batch of paintings to put up. I'll nag him!

Several new photos of paintings have been added including one sent in my a reader of the blog, to whom many thanks. I've also added a rather touching photo painted by Terry of his mother reading, an image never before seen outside the immediate family.

There's been a bit of a delay but I've just added another pictire to the site, this time a pencil drawing. My biggest problem, other than demands on my time, is trying to get good photos. If the light is strong I get too many reflections; if it is dull, even with a good camera I get lots of camera shake even with a good camera. I can fix that by using a tripo but worse the colour balance is all wrong. I may yet have to investigaye buying some good lighting. Hey ho.

In the meantime, I've been getting on with some of the admin chores like running the feeds through Feedburner and getting Google Analytics up and running on this blog. Nothing that benefits you the reader other than helping me to manage the sites and keep them free of things like spam.

To make it even easier for people to find the site, I've also started a Squidoo lens at http://www.squidoo.com/PT-Phiz. And it's started to work!

Having got a few pictures up, I've totally reworked the layout of the main site. Once I started adding text, I felt that the text size was too small. I was also worried that photographs may have been too wide for older screens.

These have been fixed and at the same time I tidied up the colour scheme.

The other major change was to simplify the page menu. As the site is going to contain several dozen pages, a full page menu was going to be to long. I have changed the menu so that the main sections on the site are shown in a tabbed bar across the top. Clicking on any tab opens the main page for that section. A context-sensitive menu on the right then shows any sub-pages for that section. (Actually for that page but there are no sub-sub-pages in the public part of the site, at least for the moment.)

I hope you approve!

I have started adding pages of insight into Terry's technique and approach. The first page now available is about his watercolours.

The new site at http://ptphiz.wordpress.com/ has been launched. The initial site contains the Welcome page, contact information and the first photo of artwork has been uploaded. I suggest that you bookmark the main site rather than this one.

We plan to add many more works and information on Terry's life, career and the canon of his work. It is hoped that an exhibition can be arranged in a couple of years time. If you would like to contribute information, then we would love to hear from you. Please use the contact information on the main site.

Welcome all
Kate Phizackerley