Sunday afternoon doodle. Building on the pencil sketch from my last blog entry. I need magnifier spectacles now, which is a really horrible admission. This time I was more strategic in my placement of the big circles and worked around them. Composition seems better. I also had a nightmare trying to re-point this blog to … Read more
On one of several work calls this week, doodling and definitely paying attention. Doodling has always helped me concentrate on the conversations, even though it may not look like it. One of my doodling pursuits is to attain the perfect free-hand circle. This should be in my sketchbook, but it’s not always at hand. I … Read more
Guns are back in the sketchbook this week. They are just an irresistible doodle for me and I loaded these two during a family week off at home in front of the TV while listening to Four Tet’s new album called “Three”. Not available on Youtube, but here’s a really good Live DJ session from … Read more
This is latest of a series of illustrations that started from an online course on Domestika with Mattias Adolfsson. I love the small details in his artwork, you spend ages finding little things that surprise you or puzzle you. This piece was made for a colleague and friend, so the details are all in-jokes, so … Read more
So here’s one of my potential failures, the details of which I will fully explain in a later blog next week. Today we are all off to Leicester to see my favourite “band” The Orb Live. I have followed them since the mid 90s and its the perfect backdrop to getting in the zone with … Read more
In late 2023 I attended a Silversmith Workshop with Tori Foster and hosted at the fantastic workshop owned by Helen Drye. They both have regular sessions available that are really affordable and they make it so much fun too It was a real eye opener and Tori is such a great and talented teacher. So … Read more
Back from far too long away. I will keep these posts short and sweet. This is a recurring doodle of some daggers I like to draw absent mindedly. Knives and guns are a favourite of mine and I will dig through my archives and re-post a lot of these artworks from the few years I’ve … Read more
This blog post was initially published several years ago on a previous version of this blog site, but it sank into the swamp. So I built another one…. It’s a real shame because there were some very kind and helpful comments attached which have been lost forever, but I think I still have them in … Read more
I have been drawing guns for years now. Grandiose, fantastical and most likely completely dysfunctional weaponry that looks good. I grew up watching movies such as Star Wars, Predator, Alien. All movies with fantastic weaponry depicted in them and somebody somewhere had dreamt them up to look the part, without worrying about how they would … Read more
So that’s Inktober done for another year. I totally failed last year with an overly ambitious plan, but cracked it this year by being quick and free. I also took the decision to avoid colour and only use Platinum Carbon Ink which is permanent for watercolour and also very friendly to fountain pens. For 90% … Read more