Mugging

At lot has been happening recently and it has left me feeling rather unsettled. So I thought this was the opportunity to post a picture in which I was trying to instill a definite sense of menace. The inspiration for this actually came not from the situation but from the rocks. I was given a book called the Artist's Handbook and in there is a chapter on the technique of crosshatching. I tried it on a rock and then the whole picture poured out of that.

St Treacle's Day

Today is St Treacle's Day, so named in honour of the most wonderful cat that ever lived. She lived with us for 19 years and the 5th March was her birthday. This picture is the only one I ever drew of her so today is the right day to post it, even though it's a picture of me getting exasperated because she keeps walking off.

I've been rummaging again ...

As I'm not ready to post the drawings from the last few weeks and I've been woefully unorganised in preparing Bryce things to post, I went looking in my really old files to find some of the first rats I did. None of them were 'drawn', instead they were done using Flash as they were supposed to be animations. The animations are so utterly awful that nothing will convince me to post them, but the basic pictures are historical evidence I guess!

Tony Hart

Just seen this about a memorial to Tony Hart as I was about to go to sleep ... what a wonderful idea!

Sillyness

This is just a watercolour & ink thing I did ages ago - I love surreal humour in art, artists like Simon Drew and Kliban and I know it's influenced me a lot.

Also, I've decided to just put a rat in the page template for this blog and be done with it ... Buboe here needs his moment of glory.