Columbo

A little update to one of my previous images. My good friend and fantastic artist Darren Douglas suggested that I should transform the guy in the picture into Columbo, it makes for a somewhat surreal take on Peter Falk!

Check out Darren's stuff here... http://darren-douglas.cghub.com/images/

Other beings

There are others living amongst us....

 

Night spirit

Been trying to do a bit more drawing and whatnot, here's one....

Yet more Inkygoodness

Two new oval beermat designs...

More Inkygoodness

Here are the latest beermat characters....

Inkygoodness Beermats

Inkygoodness are holding a competition for people to create characters on beermats, with an exhibition to be held later in the year, take a look.... inkygoodness.com

I thought I'd develop some ideas I started with these ink doodles a while ago.

Here are the first two, more to follow :-)

Greetings cards

A few greetings cards I've made for people :-)

Savage

I was looking for something on my computer and found this old sketch...

Self portrait

Finally got around to painting something for one of the old frames I've got, a self portrait of me with a goatee beard. Oil on linen on board...

Wee beasties

Just been digging through some photo folders and found these pics I took in France and Italy...

Eucalyptus tree

Time to post something :-)  Last March I planted a small eucalyptus tree, I think it's Gunnii, in the front garden.  I wanted something non-coniferous, evergreen and fast growing to add some height to the border.  Well, it sure is a speedy plant!  This photo shows it standing at 56cm/22" when planted.

I measured it during December to see how it was getting on and found it had reached a height of 230cm/90" that's four times its original height in nine months!  I've read that they don't have a true dormant period so it'll be interesting to see how it grows through the winter.  Look out for an update in the spring, I bet you can't wait ;-)

Garden veg

July is here and the garden is offering up the rewards of one's labours.  It all makes for delicious eating :-)

Freshly shelled broad beans in a hand-made coil pot, how very middle-class!  I think they look nice and moody in B&W...

This broccoli, or calabrese, grew as a 'weed', it must have self seeded from last years crop, probably spending the winter in the compost heap.

 

Early Nantes carrots and spring onions.

This pretty parcel is 'Bright Lights' chard.  I love the candy-cane quality of the stems.  Tasty too!

These red chilis and the squashkin are actually last years harvest.  I forgot to upload their pics, so here they are in all their glory...

Sculpture update

Many moons have passed and I've made some progress with the life-study sculpture that I roughed out in the class.  Here she is now, standing, or rather sitting, 14cm tall...

Ceramics

At last, a new post!  I've returned to the pottery studio down the road and made a few oddments.  Mostly experimental stuff to get into the swing of things again :-)

Drawing...

It's been freezing in the life drawing studio lately, luckily the models are kept nice and warm on the podium though...