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This piece is inspired by Mental Health Awareness Week that’s just left us. Belated and as cryptic as things might be (as usual) here in Bleu’s world, better late to the party than never right?

How I feel before the first sip... second pic is my daughter’s coffee painting - she seems to have followed her stream of consciousness better than me

Pastel and gouache on wood

More world speculating again...

I know there’s probably a few decent folks worth voting for come the general election here in Scotland I’ll settle on, though for the most part the loudest mouthpieces seem to just scream ‘bell-end’ to me... I was playing around with Google Translate and various sentences I’d jotted down, and opted to go with the closest approximation from English into German for ‘I’m voting for Muppets’, which is 'Ich stimme fur Muppets'. ‘Ich stimme’ read to me as ‘itch stim’ for whatever reason (anglophone and neurodivergent here), which seems rather fitting as the thought of the worst candidates getting in is liable to have us all come out in stress rashes, am I right?

Lazy Sunday afternoons and all things Beatles influenced...

I love the show Breaking Bad, and rewatch watch it a lot. I noticed the other night Saul said this to Walt and I immediately got out my iPad and started in on the letters.

Thinking ahead to loosening restrictions here in Scotland, one more day to go...

Whalesongs to round the week off (as usual).

Dip pen practice with puppies. I moved the puppies around a little in procreate. I tried coloring one with water color (the pink one) and it smeared. So I colored a few with Procreate.

Driven by my mishearing of something Dr. David Scheel was talking about regarding the octopus Heidi he kept in his home for a yearlong period... His documentary ‘Octopus: Making Contact’ is a lovely thing worth watching I should add!

Charcoal on Bristol mounted on board

harlequin pattern with impressions from a trip to the desert

Current events mean retreating into my sketchbook is the way of things today, until it blows over(ish, emphasis on the -ish).

Thanks to all the hard working moms on this Easter, like this hard working Easter bird with it's giant baby.

Done with Procreate, a joyful pink Easter bunny, especially for children and all children at heart.

Narwhals it seems, and I’m sure I’ve said this before, are a perfect remedy for art blocks I'd say. Wasn’t going anywhere last night, that is until I gave things another go and this fellow here saved the day!

The double neck oughta be hint enough...

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.

Spring is here, frog on a mushroom

This line from the Stephin Merritt episode of the 'She's A Talker' podcast (referring to Stephen Sondheim plot-lines) got my imagination ticking in overdrive

Something simple, yet magical...definitely need to draw more kelpies here!

Faux Risograph kitty

Welcome to mars from the welcoming committee.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons. -RuPaul.

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

In Kansas City there are lots of options, but I always think of these when I think of KC landmarks.

Inspired by the landscape of Cars Land and named for the Cozy Cone Hotel. If you know, you know.

Inspired by the landscape of Cars Land and named for the Cozy Cone Hotel. If you now, you know.