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Life has a tendency to seem complicated and make us feel overwhelmed. Busywork fills up the day and we sometimes forget what’s important. That may be edging dangerously close to comment spam platitudery, but somtimes homiles and aphorisms are just true. Drawing is the foundation of everything else in the visual arts, and without regular [...]

Speaks for itself. I think there’s time for a series of hands and feet, coming up.

The opening lyrics of Orbital’s Time Becomes give the reference to the title. The image comes from having Blueberry on the brain.

I have no idea what this thing is. Erm, maybe I don’t want to know.

This is the avatar I use on Audioscrobbler and Selfies. If the text is a bit fuzzy for you, it says, “Apologies to Julian Opie.” I love his portraits and I think they capture an essence of his subjects. They are deceptively simple, like a lot of great art. I have to say it’s been [...]

From last year’s holiday card, this is the factory where seasonal spirit is manufactured. One of these days I’ll archive the whole thing, as it was (much to my relief) well-received.

This piece is circa 1996, and was intended to be a promotional item for the book. The white ‘X’s are for overlaid panels showing the progression of drawing skill over the years. I can’t remember if I intended for two of them to be Adam’s work or not, but I did include the crown and [...]

Plato stared into the thick light that oozed into his room. He had worked out nearly all the dialogues here, though he didn’t write most of them himself. He preferred to have one of his students with him for that purpose, once he felt he’d thought through a subject enough. He was forever staring into [...]

Even if things end up a bit too heavy…