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This sweet little planet fell out of orbit.

I've had this image of an eagle on my desk for two weeks and I finally decided to draw it.

Thank the maker for weekends past, hangovers and random observations that inspire.

A drawing of a picture I took of Delicate Arch in Arches National Park. Paint coming soon.

Kierkegaard said we undersand life by looking back, but we must live life forward. On a trip to the Chicago Art Institute with a group of students, I penned the students behind me and then I penned the rapidly moving images I saw through the front window of the bus . I still do not understand life except that perhaps it is full of energy and art and love.

Henry was 5 when he created this. The color is a result of limited choices in chalk.

Observation of people and ideas

Finally got round to watching Hunt For The Wilderpeople, after eons of procrastinating over doing so, and was well chuffed at how great it was! Gave me some much needed inspiration for some art as well, always a bonus. Can see what the Deadpool 2 guys saw in Julian Dennison that’s for sure, and of course Sam Neill was brilliant as well. Can’t be forgetting Taika Waititi either for directing it! Excellent job from all in my opinion :)

Shark time again.

I was at the beach last week and did a lot of flower drawings. Here is one I'm trying to work out.

I miss having old-school, beautifully fucked up dreams that make zero sense whatsoever. One I had earlier this week met those standards of surrealism and more!

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

pattern of things you might find on a charcuterie plate - in Italian

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?

Whalesongs to round the week off (as usual).

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).

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 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

New sketchbook time! Had to throw in a shark. No idea why, just did :)

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.

First attempt at some flowers.