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For David Bowie, rest in power good sir! And thank you for your amazing music and art :-)

Part of an art + music series I will have on my website soon.

Part of an art + music series I'm working on now.

"When the teachers asked me to play something, I would pretend that I was reading it and play from memory. I didn't fool them, but I didn't care." - Vangelis (1943 - 2022).

Creating in like-minded company is a blissful experience, that much is true! Boy I’ve missed drawing clubs… :-)

Space cases and stegosaurs (I think).

Mark E Smith... a writer and musician who never fails to motivate me, creatively speaking.

Yesterday’s Magnetic Fields gig and current affairs fuelled the flames for this one, as did pink dolphins.

My girlfriend's words inspired this one, for which I’m forever grateful! :-P :-D

It was a Damien Jurado kind of evening last night!

Saturday night doodle-fest/collage-fest/general art party here. :)

I’m coming out of another one of those periods where I’ve drew or doodled very little (all the other projects on the go until now!), but as always I got my mojo back in the nick of time, it seems. :) Same old stuff here for now!

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 :)

Narwhals and musicality collides in a tale of who-knows-what.

Higgins Ink on paper

Swimming in a musical landscape, as you do.

Sleep well David Bowie, and thanks for all the inspiration! Saw this comment on one of Iggy Pop’s music videos via YouTube and had to create something based around it, spelling mistakes and all...

” Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul to waste ” I have had an idea for a long time to illustrate Sympathy for the Devil from Rolling Stones. This start from free sketching of cloud looking lines and soon i realise they look like atom bomb cloud. Original idea was more landscape version but maybe later.

I listen to music when I draw and, even though he's not "cool" anymore, I still like Jack Johnson a lot. This song came on and I started the letters.

I had some family at my house this week and my niece kept wanting to play my ukulele, only she called it "kookulele". It made me laugh every time and in the morning before they got up I sketched this real quick to remind me of it.

Happy June one and all.

Inspired by reading a subreddit discussing the early works of Animal Collective.

The title for this one was inspired by a remark the DJ Marc Riley made on his BBC 6 Music show earlier in the week. Couldn’t resist getting inspired! As we self-isolate and/or minimise going out unless we feel the absolute need to, as Freddie of the Mercury once sang, “radio, someone still loves you ❤️”

The Old Devils Are At It Again. One of my favorite songs by William Elliot Whitmore. I usually draw and paint to his music along with Willie Nelson, Lucero and Ryan Bingham. It also seems appropriate for the times...

I often hear music in my dreams. In this case, it was ‘Babylon’ by Oneohtrix Point Never (a.k.a. Daniel Lopatin, for those unaware). I had to respond in the best way possible of course!

Musing on allsorts.

Friday nights make good gig nights. This was inspired by one such event that happened not too long ago. :)

Inspired by a very drum and music heavy weekend that's just left us. Cracking times had by all I'd say!

Wow, almost forgot I had this one. I was digging Joni Mitchell well before a lot of my friends "got" her musicianship. Obviously this was more or less copped from "Hejira" - an album that I pretty much wore out. It ain't really that good but what the hell....its aged as well as she has.