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Four more sketches for the latest card game.
Pen and ink with watercolour, 11cm x 5cm each.Click to enlarge.

Card 29 in the current series is now ready.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

I'm a nervous passenger but my friend is a far more nervous driver.
Pen 12cm x 26cm. Click to enlarge.

Nowadays with Google etc., it's quite unusual not to find suitable artists' reference photos. Despite a lot of browsing the web and my own bookshelves I could not find a picture of a man in the above pose. So there was nothing for it but to photograph myself and insert me into my own sketch for my next wood engraving in the current series.
Digital composite 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

A wizard magicked himself out of my pen.
Pen and ink with digital colour. 20cm x 8cm. Click to enlarge.

I had a wild evening round at Dick and Wend's.
Crayon on tinted paper 21.5cm x 32cm. Click to enlarge.

A family of my acquaintance: father son and daughter. Water soluble crayon on brown Fabriano laid paper.

My friends Mr and Mrs Telly Addict were glued to the gogglebox as usual. I have no idea why I wrote "after Pilkington" on the first page.
Pen and ink. Each page 12cm x 18cm. Click to enlarge.

Over a period of two weeks in September 1983 in the Gulf of Trieste, a high biomass macroepifauna community suffered mass mortality. The Ragactis Pulchra sea anemones managed to survive the low oxygen levels, although they did appear somewhat stressed.

Some illustrations for a story that will never be written:-
The Kayaking Unicyclist, The Coffee and/or Soup Submarines, The Mouth Nest, The Chief Backscratcher, The Dead Sheep Flying Machine and of course the Complex Moustache.
Pen and wash with digital colour. Click to enlarge.

I recently took delivery of a new chariot. Card 14 of the ongoing series is ready.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

A bearded guy in a London cafe.
Sepia watercolour 13cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

I went on my first outing with the London Drawing Group yesterday. The location was a rather soggy Trafalgar Square and I worked from the shelter of the National Gallery portico. Our intrepid leader (shown above) actually managed to fit Nelson's Column onto the page, which is no mean feat. I'm afraid my scrappy little sketch was quite awful, but to be fair it's actually very difficult to draw perched on one leg whilst balancing a paintbox, sketchbook and water bottle in one hand, all the while trying to ignore the tourists peeking over my shoulder. I preferred drawing the people rushing about in the square and their reflections on the wet pavement.
Over lunch we discussed the merits of vodka as a painting medium, the shape of future teabags, and whether scepticism about cycle helmets is justified.
Pencil and watercolour approc 13cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

The mighty Oscar Grillo sent me this screenshot of the word verification pop-up that appeared whilst he was commenting on my Pen Island post. Is this a sign? Is Grillo the hidden Qutub?
Click to enlarge.

24 squares....count 'em.
Gouache and ink. A3 size. Click to enlarge.

Messing about with a mosaic of my images, but don't think I'll use it after all.

First attempt at the design for the backs of the Cards of Wu. See how it's done here.
Woodcut 20cm x 30cm. Click to enlarge.

Sketch for the cover of the latest album by The Flaming Baptists.
Watercolour with pen and ink 10cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

Large stone sculptures and reliefs were a striking feature of the palaces and temples of ancient Assyria (modern northern Iraq). An entrance to the royal palace of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) at Nimrud was flanked by two colossal winged human-headed lions. A gigantic standing lion stood at the entrance to the nearby Temple of Ishtar, the goddess of war. Painted in Room 6 at the British Museum, London. You need permission to use paints, but pencil is allowed without a permit.
Watercolour 18cm x 25.5cm. Click to enlarge.

King of the Nemi Woods. Three pages from a Moleskine book.
Pen and ink with brushpen. Each page 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

At the North Pole, Klaus struggles to fend off the Evil Gherkin. See also.
Acrylic on canvas 25cm x 31cm. Click to enlarge.

The Jewish New Year 5770 is heralded by a giant pickled cucumber circling above Santa's Polar redoubt.
Pen and ink with brushpen and digital colour on Moleskine 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

The Book of Job certainly makes for a fun holiday read....not.
My copy was the 1927 Westminster Press edition with the dreadful overrated William Blake engravings. These sketches were as far as I got in planning a new edition before giving up and having an ice cream instead.
Brushpen. Each page 21cm x 15cm. Click pics to enlarge.

A tiger ate my pencil...is graphite an endangered medium?
Pencil 15cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.