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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!

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

Improvising a thing or two centred around krakens and all things cephalopod flavoured :)

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

Beluga tribute time...

Welcome to mars from the welcoming committee.

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!

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...

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.

Swimming in a musical landscape, as you do.

Narwhals swimming in mandala flavoured pools. Same methods, new frontiers I'm guessing?

Pen & ink on mixed media paper

9x12

Another alien oddball (as per usual)!

A spot of midnight improvisation and general creative spontaneity.

Imitation of medieval illuminated manuscript in mixed media, having fun with my surname "Thorn".

Reflecting on the current pandemic, only to realise things this time last year gave plenty of us something to gripe about too... How times seemed simpler then.

Keeping things together and setting records straight.

Narwhals, washi tape, patterns galore...or as I like to call it, a standard Friday night.

Pen and ink on mixed media paper

Pen and ink on mixed media paper

Hoot-hoot and all that, hehehe.

Back to more surreal programming.

Possibly inspired by current events.

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added