Sorry about the delay...

Sorry for the delay I've been very busy with recreational time and organising Christmas and hairdresser appointments.
I've done a lot of animal sketches for my bestiary project (which i'm aiming to complete this week!) but my fav piece from this week has to be this quaint little dear...

She's my first character for my 'Hooligans' piece.

I promise I'll make up for the lost posts over this next week.

Back to drawing, toodle-pip.

Busy busy

Busy weekend catching up with family and friends, but I managed to do this on the train going to and coming back from Cardiff.

Originated from my woodcut design (as it's easy to see) but now i'm thinking about putting this pretty little face into a narrative.

Also thinking of photoshopping this baby for one of my friend's Christmas present (but shhhhh!).

VERY busy day...

Haven't stopped working today.
My fault really, i wanted to try something new... in other words bite off more than I could chew!
Had a hand at woodcut printing today. Didn't get round to actually printing but that may be done on Monday.

Until then, here was the initial design. Doesn't look EXACTLY like the woodcut but this was just an idea and it was calling me to run with it.
Can see this becoming a big piece!

I thought i'd put this picture in too! My workspace in the Illustration Studio.

My aim is to create the "perfect" working wall, so trying as much as possible NOT to remove anything permanently, then see at the end of the year what I end up with.

I'll update this every-so often just to show you.

Off to carry on with a design for a Gum Arabic idea....and to find out where this cold draft is coming from!

Getting started

Big step for me...my first blog!
it's not much, just something to make sure that this works.

While I'm here though, I will share this with you...

This was a page out of my personal sketchbook from today. I'm begining to apply references, history and feelings of objects and artefacts that I studied when I went to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
I think I will be making several more trips there soon, it's a beautiful place and I haven't seen all the floors!

Ta ta for now, need to carry on with my personal project characters!