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Once the curve flattens and we can all go about our usual businesses without potentially killing one another, let’s not forget all the good habits and so on we’ve picked up from staying the feck at home! Some sort of a summer will come, rest assured.

Kicking things off with the new sketchbook! And what a time to do so... Coronavirus is rampant everywhere it seems, however big or small. If self-isolation (even for just a bit, wherever you are) is the way to combat this then I suggest making the most of this time. *Captain Obvious groove*

The name for this piece comes from a billboard I noticed as I was heading home from a shopping trip not too long ago, and it’s stuck with me ever since. Life in lockdown (needless to say) brings with it plenty of time for us all to learn and get creative in whatever way works best..

Life in lockdown/business as always.

Enlightenment works in mysterious ways.

This just happened, and that's all I can say really.

Visual jamming, nothing new here! Also, hello February.

An exercise in the art of anguish languish.

As it says!

No idea what squid radio images look like, but here's something close.

Hoot-hoot and all that, hehehe.

Much ado about the bullshit of relationships.

Monday motivation...of a sorts (it's technically Tuesday on my side of the pond, but whatever).

Onwards to closure.

For things that go bump in the night (and day).

Inspired by allsorts, as always :)

Pretty much what it says.

Aaaaaaaaaand, September is here. Let's make this autumn a creative one...

When you find a mondegreen in one of your favourite Magnetic Fields songs and it sets off your creativity... Can’t be only one mishearing things here? Stephin Merritt sure knew how to mumble back in the ‘90s, that’s for certain: https://youtu.be/UGNKhVJbDM8

Day of the Dead vibes all around here!

Kicking art blocks where it hurts, one step at a time.

This theme describe well how my Xocolatl, born and raised near the equateur, feel about European winter. She doesn't quite care for it. (She is a jaguar/peacock centaur. Her pet is an inverted griffon, front of a cat, backside of a hen. Her name is Nugget.)

Apparently, Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubaten and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds fame actually did this to his school back when he was a lad! I needed an idea for a convoluted weird-as-they-come title, and after reading that story I knew I had something, heheheh :)

Finally got round to watching Hunt For The Wilderpeople, after eons of procrastinating over doing so, and was well chuffed at how great it was! Gave me some much needed inspiration for some art as well, always a bonus. Can see what the Deadpool 2 guys saw in Julian Dennison that’s for sure, and of course Sam Neill was brilliant as well. Can’t be forgetting Taika Waititi either for directing it! Excellent job from all in my opinion :)

Back to more surreal programming.

New art supplies = the best excuse to get creative! Also, narwhals.

Essential quarantine creative goings-on.

Faenggen Forest giant from South Europe Switzerland, Germany, Austria. Is also descriped as a witch or elfes.

Midnight madness/fun with artwork titles...

Aliens seeking company and respite...