Back to drawing school for me this week, starting with a bit of basic sketching, the ubiquitous sphere. If you squint, it doesn’t look too bad for a half-arsed first attempt. I have actually gone and bought a sketching pad and plan on following the sage advice of carrying it with me at all times. […]
In your hands
Quick and crude sketch of interlaced hands. It turns out that picking up a pencil again after 20 years is NOT just like riding a bicycle. Years of digital only doodling, and my fingers seem to have forgotten how to draw in real life. Sobering thought. But I had also forgotten how much fun drawing […]
My kind of therapy
All the sitting on my hands I have done of late has thrown me in a bit of an anxious state of mind, so before the devil made work for idle hands, I thought I’d knock up some reusable face scrubbies for the women in my life—together we can save our planet! I’m using some […]
Yesterday I fell in love
Yesterday I fell in love. It happened in one short day. In fact, in the space of a few hours, I knew I was hooked. Yes, painting stole my heart. In the beginning there were 5: blue, red, yellow, white and black, and the world looked like early days LEGO. Then, as if by magic, […]
Blank page syndrome
I don’t quite know how to kick this off, so why don’t I start from the beginning-ish? Picture it: London, 20041. After a couple of false starts caused mainly by my short attention span and an innate ability for underestimation (what? A funky scarf long enough to wrap around the Earth a couple of times? […]