Disappointed by Milk

I ordered a test sample of the so-called "Moleskine" book printed by Milk directly from the Paper app on the iPad. Although it's a great idea and extremely easy to produce, the finished product was a disappointment.

The Early Years

I'm waiting for the first test volume of the Memoirs to return from the printers.
Paper53 on iPad. Click to enlarge.

Pot Belly

I can't afford the cost of patenting this invention.

Pen and ink with watercolour. 9 x 13.5 cm. Click to enlarge. 

19 June 2007

May god protect us from OCD.

Ink 21 x 13cm. Click to enlarge.

Hackman

Beards are back.
Pen and ink. 13cm square. Click to enlarge.

Big Al Mustaffes

A sketch of "Big Al" Mustaffes, the putative king of Almussafes for next month's exhibition in Spain. Pencil and watercolour 21cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge.

The Nest Umbrella

16th May. The man who refused to listen....
and
Some birds decided to nest on my umbrella...
or
I couldn't find my umbrella so stole a nest.
Pen and wash. 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

Fishing Expedition

I'm back on the scene, fishing for ideas.
Pen and ink 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

Steeplechase

TOP: It's time to replace some of those old worn out religious brand identities with new religious symbols. Here are two of my ideas to get the ball rolling.
BOTTOM: While we're at it, let's think outside the box and make full use of recent technological advances in the design church steeples.
Pen and ink with wash 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

The Beard Sail

I met up for a coffee with The Frog last week and endured an hour of solid ranting. I held on to my sanity (only just) by drawing him and also sketching my idea for a beard sail.
Pen and ink 9cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

The Path

On the road to nowhere.
Pen and ink with watercolour 9cm x 28cm. Click to enlarge.

Hairy wild men

You could spend a lifetime exploring the Victoria & Albert Museum. After visiting the Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography exhibition I trickled through the splendid Medieval Galleries and Cast Courts where I sketched these curiosities: a stone head with three faces, a small wooden figure of a hairy "wild man" from Switzerland, a painting of a similar "wild woman" with only her pink breasts poking out of the fur, and a superb carving of a man wearing a bonkers hat on the doors of Aix-en-Provence cathedral.
Pencil,pen and wash A5 and A6 sizes. Click to enlarge.

Soft centre

I'm really a softie beneath my hard exterior.
Pen and ink with digital colour 6cm x 7cm. Click to enlarge.

The Watchful Egg

I found an eyeball in my boiled egg this morning.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

Beefheart R.I.P.

I was saddened to learn that Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart died on Friday. I bought Trout Mask Replica when it came out and I'm still amazed by his originality and creativity.
Brushpen 25cm x 17cm. Click to enlarge.
Brushpen and watercolour 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

Wind Up

The wind sail. An idea that's been gestating in my mind for a while.
Marker pen, pencil, watercolour 15cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

No Aim Chomsky

Things we'd like to see, Volume 3....
Noam Chomsky hurling shitballs at people with lazy eyes, emergency parachutes for birds suffering from wing cramps, a Museum of Starving Artists' Shoes, the Sawbird who makes his nest from large logs, the human pedal bin, a cannon that fires alarm clocks into the sleeping enemy camp, a man-chair hybrid, and two new Olympic sports: ear jousting and tossing the halo.
Pen and wash with digital colour. Click to enlarge.

The Complex Moustache

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.

The Dust Exchange

Horse viewing was banned at the Dust Exchange. We used the mud phone to summon the Gun of Peace.
Pen and ink with digital colour. Click to enlarge.

In the Swim

All the pond swimming is getting to my brain.
Pen and wash 13cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.