Brain Teaser

I was only average at maths. But that never held me back.
Pen and ink with watercolour 11cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

Erehwon

Be Here Now.
Digital art. Click to enlarge.

Today's Effort

I think I thought this thought.
Pen and ink with digital colour. 10cm x 8cm. Click to enlarge.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

I'm currently reading The Anatomy of Melancholy  by Robert Burton. Still as fresh as the day it was published some four centuries ago.
Pen and ink with watercolour 18cm x 26cm. Click to enlarge.

So

So it goes, so it goes.....
Pen and ink with digital colour 6cm x 8cm. Click to enlarge.

Empty Threat

More musings....

• An inspector inspecting an empty threat device
• Melancholia - the spice of life
• Let's face it, we're all clueless
• At long last, the sequel to Vonnegut's Bradbury's classic
• In this Olympics year, may I propose the standing still race?
• I must get round to reading William James

Pen and ink with digital colour. A4 size. Click to enlarge

The Mill of Meaninglessness

How my ancestors made their fortune.
Pen and ink with digital colour 11.5cm x 11.5cm. Click to enlarge.

Ghandi Goes Postal

Some of today's thoughts:
The president's strange intonation, Ghandi runs amok with an automatic weapon, give us better fridges and cars and vast guitars, the failed streaker, the breast returns to haunt Mr.Freud.
Pen and ink with digital colour. A6 size. Click to enlarge.

The Cure for Bad Art

I've started an alternative therapy centre for lousy artists.
You can buy this print here.
Digital. Click to enlarge.

Neutron Activation Analysis

I came across this old drawing of mine, probably from student days. Chapter III refers to an incident during a philosophy lecture. The teacher quoted Socrates "Know thyself" but my girlfriend (an American) thought he said "No dice, elf".
Pen and ink A4 size. Click to enlarge.

Ouroboros

It's your typical Ouroboros with a touch of the old Theosophical Star thrown in for good measure. A linocut commissioned by an old hippie.
Linocut with digital colour. 18cm x 17cm. Click to enlarge.

Stoned

Life distilled. A companion piece to this.

Digital drawing. Click to enlarge.

The Path

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

Card the Tenth

Card No.10 in the current series, hot off the press. The Hidden Mountain could be beneath your feet right now.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

The Clown Fly

A female clownfly (actually a wasp of the family iocusplasmatorae) inserts her ovipositor to lay up to 100,000 jokes in the brain of Bertrand Russell.
Pen and ink with gouache. 21cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

Call for Entries

The Telepathic Art Prize showcases the best new imaginary and hallucinated art in Britain today. Its purpose is to encourage artists with telepathic powers to submit insubstantial paintings and virtual sculptures directly into my mental gallery. There is over £40,000 in ethereal money to be won.
Pen and ink on Moleskine 7cm x 8cm. Click to enlarge.

Gift

A gift of Tentative Thoughts for a friend's birthday.
Folded card. Click to enlarge.

Art Agitprop

My placard design for an imaginary anti-teaching demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Non-imaginary Merchandise available here.
Digital print. Click to enlarge.

Oxymoron

I've been planting Quercus Oxymoronicus around the country.
Pen and ink with watercolour 21cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

The Grammarian

The Grammarian in Arcadia, card no.5 in the candy cigarette card series. Further reading here.
Pen and ink with watercolour 15cm x 21cm. Click to enlarge.