found this down behind the TV the other day. Well, it wasn’t quite like this, it was an attempt to repaint my original ‘extra width’ piece from about ten years ago as a larger piece in oils. It all went a bit wrong I thought but it was a large-ish canvas and it seemed a shame to bin it.

So the other week when I found it I did what your not supposed to, dug it out, sanded it off some and repainted over the oils with acrylics. I’m sure this isn’t great for the long term life of the painting and in places the brushwork is far too heavy. However I think it looks a lot better than it did, and its too good to put back down behind the desk/tv. So now what to do with it…

ot my normal style or technique of work, but I’d always wanted to try out using a graphics tablet.

I bought a very cheap Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet form Aldi, or maybe Lidl, some time ago. This shirt design gave me the excuse to have a play. I was quite pleased with the results, and it created far less mess over the garden, the carpet and the curtains than chucking paint at a canvas by hand like I normally do tend to. Anyway, have a look…

Three Counties MG are an MG based car club covering Staffordshire, Worcestshire and Shropshire run by enthusiasts to promote interest in MG cars throughout the Midlands area.

This was a piece done all the way back in 1999, inspired by the James Ellroy novel ‘Suicide Hill’ Well, that and a youth raised on seeing square 80s US police cars and then being disappointed that the newer models lacked the same kind of style and uniqueness.

I thought I’d start posting a few older pieces on here, as its again now nine o’clock on another sunday night at the end of another week and I’ve made it through the whole weekend without starting the new painting I have all sketched out and ready to go. Its not that I’ve been slacking, just not enough hours in the week it seems. More artwork and maybe even new artwork to follow…

Oh, and the magic of Facebook has waned a bit for me, if you want to keep up with the continued occasional flow of amusing signage photographs then you’ll need to join me on twitter.

Thank you, that is all.

couple of my older illustrations are currently featured on The Rumpus dot net website. They feature to illustrate a short story titled ‘Exactly Like Liz Phair, Except Older. And With Hypochondria’ by Dan Kennedy.

I told myself she reminded me of Liz Phair, but without the marijuana-steeped tomboy, devil-may-care, laid-back attitude of Liz Phair.

Intrigued? read the complete short story here…

More updates of an artworky nature online shortly…

Honest.

ery pleased to have had a rather large part, if I do say so myself, in the design and creation of the The Red Knob website, version 2.0.

The Red Knob is a limited company offering Sexual Health Education, Resources and Training, who I’ve been fortunate enough to create several illustrations, a couple of comic strips and the all new, all singing and all dancing website.  

As well as features retained from the old website, you can still help Semen Skater fend off attacks from a bunch of nefarious invading STIs in STI Invaders and also have a game of aSTeroiDs when you’re done.

The new site features a Sexual Health Forum and frequent updates from Private Dick, The Semen Skater and Talulah Fatale.

Right, enough with the links, I see I’ve knocked my last piece of illustration off the front page, best get scribbling…

reck Road, Liverpool.

I wonder if its still there…

Based on a drawing from a photo I took and then lost. I never went inside of ‘Pets Bazzaar’, I’m not sure why…

I’m not completely happy with either the colouring on this or the photo of it. I either need to invest in a A3 size scanner, or start working smaller.

ast nights wind and rain woke me up, which at least gave me the title for this. Now added to the artwork portfolio…