Over the summer I’ve been reading about the “Blockchain” and Crypto-currencies, mostly due to developments with the day job, but it soon brought me to the attention of the bizarre phenomenon of NFTs, or “Non Fungible Tokens”. This is again thanks to my inquisitive son who just loves to stick his nose in all these … Read more
I’ve thought long and hard, perused my recent albums to try and think of something that I was really into when working on this. The Summer of 2023, for me, had this brilliant album on constant replay. One of those albums that bury into your brain and leave you with parts of the song ringing … Read more
This post is brought to you by this killer album Gong – Live at the Gong Family Unconventional Gathering, release in 2021 and contains all the hits I love from their extensive discography. I really love the current line-up with Kavus Torabi at the helm. I got asked today at work what a good User … Read more
This post was brought to you by Cardiacs brilliant live album Special Garage Concerts Vol I & II. I don’t know the details of the recordings but it’s later in their career and the closest album to this brilliant track on Youtube that I love to listen to time and again. The Sketch I spent … Read more
Sunday afternoon doodle. Building on the pencil sketch from my last blog entry. I need magnifier spectacles now, which is a really horrible admission. This time I was more strategic in my placement of the big circles and worked around them. Composition seems better. I also had a nightmare trying to re-point this blog to … Read more
On one of several work calls this week, doodling and definitely paying attention. Doodling has always helped me concentrate on the conversations, even though it may not look like it. One of my doodling pursuits is to attain the perfect free-hand circle. This should be in my sketchbook, but it’s not always at hand. I … Read more
Guns are back in the sketchbook this week. They are just an irresistible doodle for me and I loaded these two during a family week off at home in front of the TV while listening to Four Tet’s new album called “Three”. Not available on Youtube, but here’s a really good Live DJ session from … Read more
This is latest of a series of illustrations that started from an online course on Domestika with Mattias Adolfsson. I love the small details in his artwork, you spend ages finding little things that surprise you or puzzle you. This piece was made for a colleague and friend, so the details are all in-jokes, so … Read more
So here’s one of my potential failures, the details of which I will fully explain in a later blog next week. Today we are all off to Leicester to see my favourite “band” The Orb Live. I have followed them since the mid 90s and its the perfect backdrop to getting in the zone with … Read more
In late 2023 I attended a Silversmith Workshop with Tori Foster and hosted at the fantastic workshop owned by Helen Drye. They both have regular sessions available that are really affordable and they make it so much fun too It was a real eye opener and Tori is such a great and talented teacher. So … Read more