Craving 2

Some time on my hands so here’s another.

IF. Craving

Shooooes!

My sister-in-law is getting married in January.
Venue…booked. Wedding Dress…bought. Bridesmaid dresses…sorted. So Linsey’s hunt for shoes has begun!

IF.Contagious

Infected, contaminated, smitten…LOVE!
Illness, disease, colds, germs…BUGS!


I made the printing blocks from rubbers cut with a scalpel and a lino cutting tool (spot the mistake), printed, scanned and colours manipulated in Photoshop…


… Messy but good fun!

IF. Parade

Inept fat cat bankers, money grabbing politicians, terrifying pandemic scares and grotty weather…but we keep smiling!

IF. Hierarchy

Spring has well and truly sprung and with it comes a TV program here in the UK called ‘Springwatch’.
A peek into the world of our native wild life via hidden cameras and patient cameramen, creating a compelling nightly life and death drama. Watching newly hatched chicks establishing an often all too real ‘pecking order’ can be quite traumatic, there’s no interference from the film makers, real hierarchies are established and often nature runs its unsentimental course. I’m no outdoors man but Linsey and I have become hooked!

Brush and ink line work coloured up in Photoshop.

IF. Theatre

So much pressure on us all these days to be characters we are not.
For every ‘nip and tuck’ there the risk of ending ‘six feet under’.
Tubby or not tubby? That’s the question!


Hand drawn with dip pen and ink then coloured up in Photoshop.

Spring!

Took a quick shot of a daffodil as I’m just waiting for some paint to dry on my mothers day gift on a perfect early spring day.

IF. Legendary

A legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in ’56, seen by nearly 60 million people and a legend was born…even if it was only from the waist up!


I’m not a fan but found myself drawn to the image of Elvis, as contemporary legendary figures go he’s pretty hard to ignore.

IF. Intricate

This is an pen sketch I did just after I’d left work. I was feeling the need to draw something as I hadn’t sat and drawn anything like this since collage in the early 80’s.

IF. Intricate

…more by default than by design?

Whilst away on her trip to Canada, Linsey and her colleagues went ice skating. She tells me she was a natural, performing intricate, pre-determined moves with consummate ease…I have my doubts.

IF. Intricate

Got the word for the week. The tub cocktail sticks I’d used to do the dots on ‘Breezy 2’ were sitting in front of me so I snapped some quick shots. I thought from above they looked fairly intricate.