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Whenever I think of tags and/or labels for people, be it things like ‘gammons’ or ‘snowflakes’ et al, narrowing it down to a single person who represents that group is always running a fool’s errand in my opinion.

This snail found its happy place. I hope that you find yours!

An autogenerated Youtube playlist (that I’ve yet to listen to) prompted this malarkey... This narwhal needed a home too!

Repeated psych-folk listenings/last night’s drunken pretensions informed a misspelling of things or two...

Digital artwork for an artist friend from the island of La Réunion, who like painting volcanos. The exotic bird is from that island,

Been aching to draw one of these for a while now! Can’t knock goblin sharks, that’s for sure.

I keep seeing the word 'binary' crop up a lot in various discourses I’ve caught a glance at recently, whether it pertains to discussions around things like cancel culture or countless other things too numerous to mention. Funny what the lack of a middle ground these days does to certain people, irrespective of their political/ethical viewpoints...

Needing to get out of the house, I walked down the street to the antique shops that are right around the corner from my house and did some urban sketching.

What's in front of me. I had to use more than one color because it just didn't feel right only brown, or only green.

Whenever I’m channel surfing, I often find myself stumbling into a film midway through it’s running time, and tend to stick around if there’s elements that pique my curiosity and just catch my eye etc. My Girl 2, of all films, was one of them this time around. A line about “barbaric customs” or roundabouts prompted me to pick up my drawing kit...and here we are!

A couple of octopuses I drew that are going to get some color soon.

Sometimes the flow of curved lines are what I feel good to me. I just let the pen go.

Hoot-hoot and all that, hehehe.

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

These are watercolor and pencil and ink drawings. They are 5 of 10 images of my hand from a child's board book from which I peeled the laminated pages and exposed the underlying cardboard. I have always struggled with a very large Port Wine Stain birthmark, and periodically make art about that, this one of two books this year.

And that finishes things off with my current sketchbook! Here's to what the next one brings :)

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

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

Lockdown makes some of us forget what good times were like before the coronavirus reared it's nasty little head, so in response we dig down into our brains for times that really mattered.

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..

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

This time last year I was in the midst of starting off my (then) new sketchbook... And what do I find myself doing tonight? Sticking to the same script with yet another one, that’s what!

Computers with literal mouses? Yep, it's that kind of day here!

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

Pretty much what it says.

A fairly special one for me this week, as today’s post is inspired by what would have been the time of Beltane celebrations. As it is, we celebrated at home in our own little ways, and in the case of myself indulging in my usual habits! Drinking and of course drawing, the usual stuff...

Tuesday night (or is Wednesday morning?) is alright for improvising, that much is true.

In the immortal words of Jim Carrey...ssssssssssmokin'!