More than just a pretty face

This may come as a massive shock to some, but I’m actually capable of working in a medium other than linocut print. I’m capable, I just don’t do it very often. But now it’s Christmas I’ve been able to get away from my nagging wife of the print workshop and elope with my exotic and mysterious mistress watercolours.

Here is some of the nonsense I’ve produced in the name of getting away from my proper work.

Incidentally, the pictures of buildings are taken from the sketches I made in Morocco last year.

Finished!

Finished that thing about the boys on the bikes. Here it is.

The books are in production right now! ALSO, one of my other books (the one set in the cafe, there are illustrations further down this blog) is now FOR SALE in Analogue books down on Candlemaker Row. If, like me, you still haven’t really set about your Christmas shopping, I suggest you go and buy one!

Exhibition, at last!

I was at an exhibition opening on Saturday. With my work. Here is a picture.

Aren’t I bleary-eyed. I was at the sculpture party the night before.

A work in progress?

I haven’t finished anything lately (actually that’s a lie, I have, but there are no photos of it so you won’t see it yet..), so here is some work in progress. This is for my next story, which is called “The Passenger Seat” and features three extremely ugly Clarkson-type mid-life crises on a motorised tricycle, the very sort which I recently saw in real life (see for you very own eyes). Here are some pictures:

I started by making some characters. They are all based loosely on people I have seen in real life. Here is one of the various drawings. Look how ugly they are!

The I started thinking about some compositions.I drew and drew and drew and it’s not terribly interesting to look at. Here is one drawing I love though.Thing is, I have this idea for the format of the book. And it’s gonna be real wide. So i draw some more and decide to make a very very wide image. This one is a lino.

So that’s it. Who knows what might happen next! I’ll keep you, yes you! posted.