Entrepreneurin'

I've been thinking about selling some collages as prints or on t-shirts, here's some ideas:

This is Either an Orchid or a Lily...I forget.

Edit: It's a Peruvian Lily or Alstroemeria aurea ...Don't be thinking I don't know my botany else you'll find a Sempervivium where the sun don't shine. LOL plant humour.

Finished Papercut Numero Uno

Pins and Needles and Papercut Designs

For our little two week "erasure" project I've been thinking of a way to incorporate the process of erasure into my existing work, so I thought some lovely papercuts would be just the thing-

I've doodled up a couple of designs which I'll be cutting into big copies of pages from my Vauxhall Nova manual - I'm one of those fernickety little buggers that can't deal with simple designs, despite loving them in other people's work, so it's quit

e nice to push myself out of my comfort zone ...besides maybe if I get good enough I'll be able to attempt something as SUPER AMAZING AND BEAUTARIFFIC as Rob Ryan's work...here have a look:

How amazing is that? So now you've seen that don't wee all over mine it's only my first try...wellllll it's not actually but that one was so blooming awful that I daren't upload it for fear of someone printing it out, setting fire to it and sending me a picture just to teach me a lesson.

Sketchbook Bits

The Healthier Alternative to Carbon Monoxide!

Suitable for vegetarians, too.

A Cuttin' And A Pastin'

Here's what I've been cracking out through the wooly haze of bailey's and crisps: What thinketh thou?

IT'S BLOODY WELL VAUXHALL NOVA TIME!

YES!!!

Having finally got my laptop back and subsequently being in receipt of a nice little comment from mum (big love to the muth btw) and her hilarious conker hating ways I have decided to showcase some more bits and bobbles of what I've been on with:

This is my Vauxhall Nova Botanical Sketchbook (I have yet to decide on a good name for this, hello suggestions box):

This is a particularly sensitive work for me because this was my brother's manual for our grandad's car, and it is illustrated with some rather beguiling notes such as: "Nova 0.0821918 ... Civic 0.0818182 LOL LOL" (!?!?!) Just some little mechanic humour for you there.

ANYWAY have a look at the fascinating dichtomy between the observation of technological/organic processes WHAT a mouthful:

Preliminary Preliminary.

Here are some VERY preliminary sketches for an idea for a film I'm going to make. And they look shit not only because they are a bit shit but because my scanner is just an awkward bitch who doesn't like to play fair and scan stuff properly AUGH SULK.

Anyway I'm trying this year to PEEL MYSELF AWAY from the tradish and break into something new. So coming your way soon will be some papier mache models of ruins placed in my cooker. In the words of Scar of Lion King fame, and also the scouts: BE PREPARED.

Croydon is not an Exciting Place.

Here's a quick Q&A: have you ever thought you had a condition known as synaesthesia? You know, the one where you hear a tune and you start seeing all manner of beautiful colours and shapes? Yeah. Well after trying my damndest to make a visual response to sounds made in CROYDON I figured....

I do not have that shit.