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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…

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Friday Saves: We Have a Bite!

Ugh,late AGAIN!Keep meaning to have this up early on Friday so April gets to see it. My head is still spinning from last week so I am taking a break this week from Love & Carnage. I found this work in progress from quite a few years ago. I get bitten by midges, mosquitos and horseflies in summer and always have really bad reactions, huge swelling and lots of lovely pus and scabs. One time I was…

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Friday Faves: Mother Nature

Lates AGAIN. AsTheres only a few of us read this I thought I would do a Fraggle style update as its been a weird week, a weird time really, this last year. Lots of big ups and big downs. Cycled the last of the Waterford Greenway with my brother on Sunday, Dungarvan back towards Durrow. We have been doing these excursions together for the last while and they are really enjoyable. Its an amazing…