The Astronut

An astronut case.
Procreate app on iPad. Click to enlarge.

The Observatory

"Our Yoricks work in the observatories of the philosophy faculty, where we need them as much as in astronomical observatories." Georg Lichtenberg.
Paper53 on iPad. Click to enlarge.

A Million Years Ago

I drew this a million years ago for Management Today magazine.
Pen and ink 12cm x 34cm. Click to enlarge.

The Kepler Hat

My latest hat design for the discerning man about town: the "Kepler Elliptical."
Pen and ink with watercolour. A4 size. Click to enlarge.

Day Two at the Sanatorium

Day Two at the Sanatorium and still no change.
Pencil with watercolour 18cm x 19cm. Click to enlarge.

Skellington

A rough sketch for a kids' anatomy book I'm working on. The final version won't have eyes, unfortunately.
Pen and pencil with digital colour. 17cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

Nasa Conspiracy no.237

A couple of Nasa discoveries that have not been widely publicised.
Pen and ink with watercolour 9cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

The Transitus of Nork

I am the only person who knows of the existence of an asteroid named Nork.
Mixed media 13cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

A Fun Day Out

Met up with the London Drawing Faction today for total immersion in the deep weirdness that is the Hunterian Museum. Starting at top left we have:

1. Winston Churchill's false teeth, made from gold with platinum clips and mineral teeth. It was crafted in such a way that his lisp was not changed.
2. A glass jar containing a chimp's head collected in 1792.
3. The face of a child prepared by John Hunter to show a tumour in the nasal cavity.
4. A shoe for correcting club foot made by Antonio Scarpa in 1849.
5. A bronze sculpture of a monkey contemplating a human skull by Hugo Rheinhold c.1900. The creature is sitting on a book by Darwin and holds a pair of compasses in his right foot.
6. A copy of the portrait of Daniel Lambert, the 52 stone man.
7. A foetal porcupine in a jar (the item number 3476 is written in a beautiful hand, typical of the period around 1800).
8. A long surgical tool from 1860 designed for recovering swallowed coins. The sponge at one end was soaked in anaesthetic and applied before using the other end.
9. A life mask of John Hunter cast when he was aged 60.
10. A pig foetus with a cleft palate.
11. A brace buckle swallowed by a patient of Thomas Bond (known for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper case) in 1869.

Pen and ink 29cm x 36cm. Click to enlarge.

Triste Trieste

Over a period of two weeks in September 1983 in the Gulf of Trieste, a high biomass macroepifauna community suffered mass mortality. The Ragactis Pulchra sea anemones managed to survive the low oxygen levels, although they did appear somewhat stressed.

I designed this rather fetching hat to commemorate the event.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 23cm x 16cm. Click to enlarge.

Faux-naïf

I had other plans for this evening, but for no particular reason I started leafing through a book on American Folk Portraits. My mind being occupied elsewhere (I was also listening to a fascinating lecture by Sam Harris on fora.tv), my hands got busy copying a portrait of Miss Rebecca Freese of Cairo Forge, New York. The original is by an unknown artist circa 1835.
Pencil and watercolour. 18cm x 12cm. Click to enlarge.

Live line

Your safety is our {main} concern. It's OK to view this image in bare feet.
Pen and ink on moleskine 9cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

Overheard

Two chaps in my local cafe with snippets of conversation overheard.
Pen and ink on moleskine 9cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

When saints collide

Vatican astrophysicists may one day confirm the existence of dark matter halos.
Pen and ink on Moleskine with digital colour. 9cm x 12cm. Click to enlarge.

Spermzilla

Spermzilla escapes from the North East England Stem Cell Institute.
Acrylic on paper 31cm x 41cm. Click to enlarge.

Oestrogenic man

Oestrogens tablets are often used to treat prostate cancer. About 30% of all patients treated with oestrogens develop tummy pain, wind and nausea. There are mood changes too and all patients suffer from swelling of the breasts which may be very tender and most unpleasant.
Brushpen 15cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

Dogbird

In principle, I don't see any objection to such experiments.
Pencil with digital colour. 8cm x 1cm. Click to enlarge.

The Implausibility Detector

A member of the Implausibility Detection Unit.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 17.5cm x 12.5cm. Click to enlarge.

The Ear Wreck

My colleagues at the Admiralty are urging me to continue development of the EWGWS (ear wax guided weapons system) despite recent budget cuts.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 17.5cm x 12.5cm. Click to enlarge.

H1 Nad 1 virus

Nadler Labs have successfully decoded the Art Virus. An antidote is available here.
Felt pen with digital colour. 17cm x 14cm.