That Sinking Feeling

I leave frames IV and V to your imagination.
Felt tip pen and crayon, tweaked in ArtRage and Pshop. 13cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge.

The N-Scope-ologist

The Frog is obsessed with the Nipplescope, so we held a meeting to plan the construction of a prototype.
Top: Watercolour 19cm x 15cm.
Bottom: Pencil drawing splodged up in Artrage.
Click to enlarge.

Sheer Terror

I've got artist's block.
Primed canvas and easel in a white room. Dimensions variable. Click to enlarge.

I'm on the map

For the second time in a week (see earlier post) I find myself featured in an art book about maps. I picked up my copy of The Map as Art by Katharine Harmon at the book launch held at England & Co. My page shows two maps drawn from memory: Australia and USA.
The gallery is currently showing cartographic works by various contemporary artists, including Terry Ryan. Afterwards Terry and I went for a drink with Wasserman and discussed sleepwalking twins, obnoxious curators, triple-decker analytic couches and The Turnip Prize.

Sombre Blokes

Two sombre blokes in a cafe on Cleveland St.
Watercolour 19cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

Frog Hat

Portrait of The Frog in his Borsalino.
Watercolour 14cm x 17cm. Click to enlarge.

Eye of Floyd

I came across this tiny wood engraving of a man in an eyeball while rummaging through some old papers. I cut it for the Pink Floyd Songbook many years ago.
Wood engraving 40mm x 25mm.Click to enlarge.

The Ozenphant

In his Foundations of Modern Art, Amedée Ozenfant discusses the beauty of mankind's earliest paintings: the silhouetted outlines of human hands on the cave walls of Pech Merle, France. This inspired my invention of a hybrid creature, the ozenphant.
Top: ink on Moleskine 6cm x 4cm.
Below: Watercolour, crayon and levels tweak 21cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

The Brancusi Duel

Things I'd like to see.
Pen and brushpen on Moleskine. 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

Back to backs

Back to lifedrawing today after a four month break. Rusty as hell.
Pen and wash A4 size /Pencil A4 size. 20 minutes each. Click to enlarge.

Pinocchio at War

Pinocchio is deployed to the front. Painted by our war correspondent.
Acrylic on canvas 30cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

Strange Maps

Today I was delighted to receive my copy of Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs which has just been published. It features my New Simplified Map of London which first appeared on this blog.

Nimrud

Large stone sculptures and reliefs were a striking feature of the palaces and temples of ancient Assyria (modern northern Iraq). An entrance to the royal palace of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) at Nimrud was flanked by two colossal winged human-headed lions. A gigantic standing lion stood at the entrance to the nearby Temple of Ishtar, the goddess of war. Painted in Room 6 at the British Museum, London. You need permission to use paints, but pencil is allowed without a permit.
Watercolour 18cm x 25.5cm. Click to enlarge.

King of the Wood

King of the Nemi Woods. Three pages from a Moleskine book.
Pen and ink with brushpen. Each page 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

The Liar

I sense that everyone's lying to me. Or maybe I'm just lying to myself. See my photographic version here.
Top: Pen and ink with brushpen 9cm x 6cm.
Lower: Acrylic on paper 18cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

Klan Dog

A klan dog.
Acrylic on masonite. 18cm x 12.5cm. Click to enlarge.

Cow gum

An old drawing that was stuck down with Cow Gum. The adhesive discoloured the paper in quite a nice way. This is somewhere in England, but I can't remember the exact location.
Pencil and coloured pencils. A4 size. Click to enlarge.

Ceaselessness

It never ends.
Pen and ink with digital colour. 8cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

1974

Bumped into Richard Wentworth today...I haven't seen him since 1975-ish. When I got home I dug out this tiny sketchbook page from 1974. Verso is a dream I painstakingly recorded (on hand ruled lines and red margin). Recto relates to I know not what.
Pen and coloured pencil. 13cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

Lifetime Download

Or maybe it's an upload? I had this idea for a sculpture, but a quick trawl on the web reveals that someone else thought of it first. More great ideas from Joe McKay.
Pen and brushpen on Moleskine 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.