Two more cut-out collagey things from the series 'all is ash and sorrow'. It concerns itself with pyromania and the shitty things people do in the name of 'love'. But you'd probably need to see all nine for that to be clear. And it still wouldn't be.


I'm attempting to exhibit the full nine pieces, hence me not uploading them all, but, once that idea fails, I'll probably put them out as a zine or something.

Let's not mess around, I had a whole lot of roses that I needed to use for stuff. Plus I'm messing about with gouache trying to make it work as watercolour instead of using it for flat colour. So here are some results of that.

fightless bird/sea otter

This is the cover of the wonderful and talented poet Sarah Dawson's forthcoming poetry ebook. I drew her some sea creatures and it was fun. Now go to her blog.

Finally

This was a pug that I drew for my friend, which has proved very popular so here it is.

It's probably a good idea, if I can call it such, to follow me on flickr, since I actually update that pretty frequently, but not so much this.

Other things what I have been doing

So I'm doing a series of large scale thingies using gouache and cutting-bits-out-so-you-can-see-the-flourescent-stuff-I-put-underneath. It is tentatively titled 'All is ash and sorrow: scenes from my email inbox' and is to do with fire. Not that you can tell.





You will note that my skills when it comes to photographing my work have not improved. Nor, if I were honest, have I tried any harder.

somme liked it hot

I did/have a spoken word act, 'Somme Like It Hot (or how I learnt to pack up my troubles and love the war)', that I performed in Preston this Summer as part of their Tringe festival. It meant that drawing was on the backburner for a bit. This in no way justifies not updating for three months, but what can I say? I like the drawing stuff, I like the uploading stuff a lot less. The spoken word piece had an illustrated slideshow, a few of which are shown here. Without context they mean nothing, but take my word for it when I say that, with commentary, this shit is HILARIOUS.







Others can be seen HERE!

Animals!

Remember when I used to draw nothing but animals? I miss those days. Anyway, here are some new ones:

More posters!

One promoting a street art event:



And one promoting a spoken word event written and performed by, uh, me:

God, it's been ages. I've had to put drawing stuff on the backburner in the short term as all of my spare would-be drawing time has been spent working on some writing.
However, I have been doing jobs when people have asked it of me, so here are two posters done for a club night and a gig.

Sorry, I haven't updated for ages. So here are LOADS of russian dolls, in an effort to make up for it.

My fingers still hurt from doing this.

massive spurting of newness

I have been experimenting with cutouts, which is painfully twee, but at least partly in keeping with trying to stop spending every waking moment thinking about boring old watercolours, yeah?

same old, same old.

Triptych what I have done in the past couple of days, apologies for minor bit of potty-mouth.

funeral

Poster for a club night in London.

Muralling

Hello. I haven't posted for ages, as a) I've been having a massive existential crisis regarding the act of doing art, but, to a larger extent, because I have been doing this:

Christmas (baby please buy cards)

Christmas cards are done! A little later than last year but still in good time, and, crucially, just as twee. These are two of five, and you, you lucky devil, can buy all five (or the original artwork, as, goddamn my house is getting a little cramped) from
my folksy. Hurrah.