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Whenever I’m channel surfing, I often find myself stumbling into a film midway through it’s running time, and tend to stick around if there’s elements that pique my curiosity and just catch my eye etc. My Girl 2, of all films, was one of them this time around. A line about “barbaric customs” or roundabouts prompted me to pick up my drawing kit...and here we are!

When you find a mondegreen in one of your favourite Magnetic Fields songs and it sets off your creativity... Can’t be only one mishearing things here? Stephin Merritt sure knew how to mumble back in the ‘90s, that’s for certain: https://youtu.be/UGNKhVJbDM8

Paint, drawing, magazine, cut paper; sealed with gloss medium on paper.

Dump those dirty oranges, if you know what I mean (and I'm sure most of you do)...

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Meal time for the jellyfish.

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

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

There is really nothing more I can say about this than it is truly just a doodle on a notepad while I was on the phone. The more I do this though, the more ideas I get for larger work.

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Romantic birds and their narwhal pals.

Please accept these flowers.

Gouache bouquet

Kicking art blocks where it hurts, one step at a time.

Trying to doodle my way through a Disney post-it note pad pre-printed with Mickey's face and ears.

Graphite in sketchbook

I started out drawing a horse running but it turned into this strange doodle.

Rhino Slug is sliming around looking for snacks.

Red orange and black fiery tiger stripes