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Friday Faves: Grumpy

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Friday Faves: Cat Driving

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Friday Faves: Struggling Artist

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Friday Faves: Big Gulls Don't Cry

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Friday Faves: Team Players

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Ah love the the short silly ones…

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Wednesday Whimsy: Getting the Massage Across

As I didn’t do the Sketch Pad last week, I was going to do one this week but I went for a long walk on Sunday after being charged an extortionate rate for tea at a cafe and my ruminations delivered this. So this is what you are getting…

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Studio Report #3

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Friday Faves: Pie of the Tiger

I was gonna post an old one but thought of this last night and scribbled it out. Forgot I had just cut my hand on a can of chickpeas (making hummus, mmm hummus) but it suits the ‘toon. It doesn’t really work…Bengal/Svengali…but it’s what you’re getting. I read a great book about a tiger hunt in Siberia by John Vaillant (who also wrote the excellent Fire Weather) so tigers have been on my mind. I…

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Studio Report #2

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Friday Faves: Sarcastic Jellies

A no brainer to post this today as yesterday the shoreline of our three mile long beach was crowded with dead jellies. Poor things. Thousands of them. This is the original. I want to change the font – and perhaps I could edit the text?What do you think?Does it make sense? Theres a thing on the coast that if there are lots of jellies about theres going to be good weather. Anyhoo, can’t find the…

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Sketch Pad #2: Surf Cafe, Girls and Greece.

Didn’t do a lot of drawing in the last week. Here’s the only one, from the local surf cafe where I was sitting trying to organise my receipts for the last few years. Got one year down before my mind wandered. I started on the plants and they were so big I went onto a second page. I did some paintings in this surf centre 14 years ago. I love the plants against the grid of big windows and an…

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Studio Report #1

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Friday Faves: The Ballad of Larry the Stoat

So I am going to do animals, birds, insects and marine creatures and I have tons of them so it’ll be a bumper book. Working Title Super Nature but that’s too dull so let me know if you have any ideas. I think this may have been one of my first ‘toons. Or one of the first with animals. Larry is a popular name for my animal characters. I have a friend called Larry, maybe that’s why. The first…

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Sketch Pad '24 #1: Chairs and Holidays

I was going to try come up with a new ‘toon but its just not there so as I have a few sketches knocking around, I thought I’d share them. I used to draw all the time in a lot of tight detail which I sort of hated as I thought it was ‘anal’. I realise now that artists hate everything they do. If you dodnt I guess you’d just stop! You just have to do it and move on. I worked on loosening up my…

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Friday Faves: Animal Crackers

Damn I missed last Friday again. Busy week and also felt like I was coming down with something and then I travelled west for a few days and accidentally climbed Croagh Patrick. It’s a triangular shaped mountain thats a place of pilgrimmage for Catholics. It has a very pagan feel to it as its a bit of a monster and likely has been looming menacingly over people since long before the holy stuff. It…

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Wednesday Whimsy

I was so busy booming Bored with a Record Shops stats I forgot my Friday post. I think. Did I? I don’t know whether I am coming or going. I am doing a few applications as well as trying to get studio work done – big sculpture, small sculpture and painting – so it’s like three different art practices. They say its takes you about five years after graduating art college to find your own way of…