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It is what it is, as they say...

A spot of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s wisdom always gets me by... :-)

As it should be!

Prospects for this month that’s not long started? Here’s hoping!

Today’s drawing gets it’s name from something I overheard someone declare at lunch yesterday afternoon. I’ve had kale often enough and yet, I’m not convinced it tastes *entirely* like grass... I could be wrong though. Thoughts?

So here I am, 29 today. Happy birthday to me! Must mean it’s that time of the day again...

Many years back, I watched that documentary ‘The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off’ about a fellow called Jonny Kennedy who lived with the skin condition EB. There’s a bit in that film where he talks about what he hopes his afterlife would be like and, for whatever reason, a couple of coffees as I was re-reading the Wikipedia article about it triggered an idea I had to scribble down...

I was lucky enough to get to illustrate a beautiful Gorilla sculpture for Paignton Zoo. He took me 18 months to complete as he was under a purpose built awning at my house. Too hot and the pens dried up, too cold and my fingers froze! He now sits at the zoo and I miss him terribly! He Was decorated using acrylic markers on a white gloss base then varnished with car varnish.

Dinosaur doodling is the way of things today.

Nothing much to add really...

We weren’t getting enough social interaction in our quarantined space, so we decided to make another person, coming soon! This is my family as cats.

Some tiger shark love.

Chalk on paper

A4 portrait commission. Really enjoyed drawing Harry, the composition of this one was lovely.

In my worlds, human/animal riding is symbiotic and the animals enjoy driving people around. Ink & watercolor on 5x5 Arches cold press.

Acrylic on vintage cabinet door

I started a new youtube series called Paint With Frenemy. Channeling Bob Ross in short painting videos. Check it out if you like and please like an subscribe! I'lll be posting new videos every Sunday 9am eastern time. This week video I paint a happy little taco with some stop motion animation mixed into the painting process. Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hfj3xBju_c

Commission portrait drawn in black and white line using fine liners.

Sometimes I just need to vent. This is my sarcastic take on our fallible humanity and one of my ways of dealing with absurdity. My therapy.

Inspired by a Danielle Donaldson watercolor class.

A feast of all things flora and fauna!

My Illustrated giraffe used flora and fauna to create the patterns on the giraffe. Drawn with pen and ink, he was great fun to produce!

A lady at work asked me to make an elephant for her as a gift for a friend. I sketched a bunch of different options and finally came up with this. Watercolor on drawing paper with marker.

Playing around with bird patterns. I scanned in all my watercolor birds and then arranged them with GIMP.

Fox? Owl? Cat?

SA : Read a book today! Some books that I really enjoyed recently: - The Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler - On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle - Dark Reading Matter by Jasper Fforde - Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett - Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell - Happy Hour by Ed Steed What about you, which books have you enjoyed?

She didn't mean to find the secret grotto, but when a shimmering river of blue fish changes direction, you just have to follow where it leads.

I took a moment to break out the oil pastels I have been meaning to use FOREVER. It is a tough medium, and I have lots to learn, but I am enjoying the process

Sepia on paper