Silverpoint

I decided to have an experiment with a very inexpensive method of silverpoint drawing. Basically scratching with an earring onto a acrylic primer ground.

This is the result. Very small drawings because the sharp end of the earring is so fine but I think this could be quite a fun way to draw. A little softer than ball point.

Flat Heraldic Beasts

Military Band Old Curtain Fabric

I used to love these fabrics when I was little. It was as if you had a adventure picture book at your window and my favorite childhood curtains had knights and ladies.

If you stand still for long enough a bird will nest on your hat. 

Flowers clearly make a lot of noise when they explode

And here is what it feels like when all the cool instruments are taken and you get left with the cymbals!

Unicorn and Friends

Heraldic and other toys.

Not so Scary Painting!

At long last! I seem to have produced endless dark and scary paintings that I really wouldn't ever buy and hang in my own home!!! and at last I have painted one that is just a little bit odd and not scary. It is not quite finished and I still could ruin it but I am overjoyed to have made a bit of a brake through.

Joey the Clown and the Crow Puppet

I have perfected the woolly comb-over.

A Possible Toby

Developing some Punch and Judy actors which are heading in strange directions. So here for Good Friday is a Richard Dawkinsy Toby the Dog!

Mr Punch Doodle

I am getting ready to start a new series of embroideries.

Still too cold to cut wood!!!!

I don't want to risk losing fingers so I am still not able to cut wood and make automata. I'm waiting and waiting for the spring weather to arrive but staying inside I may be in danger of losing my marbles!!

A dead mouse and

a girl with Catsos in her hair. 

Continuing the photos at odd angles here is the muse for my painting. This painting was hung very high in a gallery in the Corcoran in DC.

Painting! I've been putting this off for a long while!

It is still far too cold to cut wood in the garage so I have decided to try and relearn to paint. The start of a long road but one that I hope can only improve my automata. I've started with a couple of quick little paintings on wood. First was Napoleon the Chimp and then a far too nervously painted Duke of Wellington. Anyway I have made a start at last.