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When both an M. Night Shyamalan film and a controversial German novel inspire you at the same time...

Birds bikes and bells. It started as a quick bike doodle and then I got carried away. I kinda like getting carried away. I seldom know where it will end up.

The hangover song, heheheh.

New year, same old stuff from me folks.

Quiet nights in = essential for crafting new ideas...

More festive things! A belated Merry Christmas to you all folks. :)

One with all the festivities in mind.

The title I feel’s a touch wrong, but I like it and I hope you do too.

Channelling my inner Trekkie, as it says on the tin here...

Something all over the shop.

As it says on the tin.

Finding inspiration in the more colourful corners of the canvas, as you do.

New one shadowed & ready for color. Drawn with a Pilot Custom 823 FA (favorite pen at the moment) with Noodlers 41 Brown on Strathmore Mixed Media paper.

For robbing hoods?

Mixed media. Acrylic, pencil, digital. This is a piece from the book “Mail Me Art - Medium Without A Message” by @littlechimpsociety. I think it was the second call for entries/book.There are now 4 books filled with awesome art drawn and painted on outsides of envelopes and packages by artists all over the world who then mailed them to the UK totally exposed to the postal service. The original was all analog. I brought this into Procreate and reworked it. I may do more when I get a chance but I’m pretty satisfied with it now.

Fun fact: This, some 34 years ago, nearly became the title of Pixar’s first short “The Adventures Of André & Wally B.”. You learn something new every day folks...

An ode to catnaps and snoozes of all kinds. #art #illustration #traditionalart #mixedmediaart #surreal #abstractart #experimental #lofi #outsiderart #folkart #linedrawing #collage #freeform #cutandpaste #psychedelicfolk #sleep #dream #blackoutgen #collage #artistsofinstagram #edinburgh #scotland #unitedkingdom

Freaky, yet chilled-out coffee vibes.

Mother Nature Challenge made by Doodle Addicts

For new horizons.

One for all those Inktober folks out there! Rest assured, despite what the verses say here, you're as mad as march hares in the best way possible. :)

Inspired by a recent camping I undertook with a few close friends of mine. Grand times had by all!

I think I'm getting the hang of painting florals with gouache. It helped to decide on a palette and pre-mix the colors.

All this and possibly some other things.

I needed inspiration and was lacking a title so, yeah...

When you still have some energy left over from a creative marathon that happened the night before...

Four Tet's good for my creativity, no doubt about it.

I had a rock tumbler as a child and really enjoyed it. When my youngest was a child we bought her one. She was eager to enjoy it too, but somewhere after starting on that path, we lost track and it everything inside turned into a solid mass. We tossed it and forgot about it. On a recent beach trip, I collected handfuls of rocks, as I am always likely to do, and, upon return, remembered how I loved my childhood rock tumbler. I immediately researched, ordered and eagerly anticipated its delivery. Of course, with Amazon Prime, that was only a couple day’s wait. As soon as I unboxed it I thought “what am I doing?” I have neither time, nor space for yet another hobby. I thought “what will I DO with a pile of polished, pretty rocks?” I would gather them in my hands and feel their silky smoothness. I would likely gather them in some beautiful glass bowl and…then what? I have toddler grand kids frequently at my home. They put small colorful things in their mouths and up their noses and feed them to the dogs regularly. And I don’t even have a single space to display a bog bowl of pretty rocks. So I quickly decided “I’m Returning the Rock Tumbler” and will, for NOW, stick to painting them when the mood strikes.

No idea where this title came from, but it works so...yeah. Also, new sketchbook time!