Practise instrument (2010)

Cow

This is the photo of the cow I'd like.


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This is a dinosaur in my bathroom

I wish my uncle was the guy in that Jurassic park documentary then he could make me a dinosaur for Christmas, instead of my real uncle who sends me the tobacco spit he saves in a napkin in prison.


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And I want a sheep dog.

Like this one. I don't really want the goat without the dog though. Or vice versa. FYI. But goat first.


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All I want for Christmas is a goat.

Just a goat. Like this one.



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Painted until 5.15am

Undercoated 10 new boards. Finished off one new painting and started the back painting for 5 others. Back painting is not as satisfying as painting detail and ink work. But it is important.



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I'll keep you in my stomach (2010)

The man who played waves (2010)

Drink your germs or your trunk won't grow (2010)

The keys that redden your mouth (2010)

The sky dries in you (2010)

The flood begins as the boat runs aground (2010)

Look at my bird

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Finished painting at 5.10am

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watch the sheep turn the sound loud and listen for the nuances. and there's something quite beautiful.

Sheep house.

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Non altered fake Polaroid of Kitty bending space and time

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more crinkly water colours that actually might be a full circle.

Junk food reading

The problem with putting words on this blog is that if I'm not doing anything it is a sinfully boring waste of time. So I'm not going to write on here for a bit, so it'll have to be a journal where language is circumnavigated and I'll have do stuff other than photograph my lunch and the sky and moan about how I haven't been painting.

In the spirit of this new resolve here is a photo of my lunch and the sky






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these scanned pictures all look shit because the paper is crinkled and that is before assessing the images.

new photos of new cubes

Painting again

Been painting with a buzz since about 1 ish. Every problem has a solution. of sorts. I've got major acid so I'm going to try and sleep a bit. I love this crazy ride. But it's 4am and bedtime.



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aha! painting.

i'm like the dude off water colour challenge (never seen it) in that i have been using water colours to overcome the inability to paint. watch this space. actually don't. i don't want to be responsible for eye damage. unless you deserve it. in which case when you get to the opticians tell them mike sent you.

this is a photo of me standing on the roof of the biggest gay club in brighton at 2am.

(doors lyric that was causing confusion being on here that I've removed as a title)

Actually no I didn't, i had a coffee, but I did wake up with that song in my head. Which was odd because I haven't really listened to the doors in a long time. At the time of writing I am about to have breakfast. I need to rethink my painting strategy. I'm thinking of water colours for a bit while my studio remains to be the coldest place on earth (it's called exaggeration and we all do it). If it were not for my sporting injury I would brave the cold happily, but currently it is not a possibility.

When trees attack...





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on the plus side

i am unappreciated in my own life time.

Tar Oss (2010)

Lousy ink pen.

Calligraphy pens are such lousy bastards. I tried to paint as much as I could today. Needed to get something done, just for positivity, but the 'new' pen I bought the other day broke the minute I tried to use it. Piece of crap. Then I tried to change the nib in old faithful, my existing favourite bur decrepit pen. And it didn't survive. I think I'm going to quit being a painter and learn to whittle canoes.




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Web comics

Web comics are brilliant. You get to publish a comic to wear people could see it like you couldn't before. I've been a comic book writer and illustrator for over 20 years. Starting with my 'Trevor and Audrey' comic. I created a huge number of comics at school, inspired by a school friend, about inventive ways to kill people. We filled hundreds of pages with anvils and shark pits. Awesome. In the Middle period a friend and I came up with the lost treasure "dr stavros and the 8 mcquars". A horror comedy about a sexy professor who invents an 8 headed monster with 8 different personalities. Later I went comic wise with the high art sex show, which was less linear in narrative content, along with mr salty's icecreamatorium. The mr salty comic was the first Webcomic, but much of it was done on the computer for ease, while based on real life drawings. Now the dust piggies is going strong, having appeared in print and as a web comic. It is exciting the thought that people would be able to create autobiographical illustrative archives and explosions of imagination, and everything on a 360• axis. The wonders of the world.


Imagine this is in the snow on a hipsters blog.


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still nothing to report

this is a sorry state of affairs. i've been doing dust piggies, but can't paint or make pots. it's increasingly frustrating. i feel purposeless.

Dust piggies fan art!

If anyone out there wants to do/ or has any dust piggies fan art then send it to dustpiggies@gmail.com and it'll go on www.dustpiggies.com in a new fan art section.

(entries will be screened for appropriate content, so don't waste your time with anything hideously offensive and no nazi crap obviously)

Food.

Bits of food i have eaten. The thing about food is you have to eat it but it's most important that food is delicious.





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