The Molar Beetle

The Molar Beetle has gained a gold crown. Card III in my Tree of Life series. Be sure to collect all 10,000 cards.
Pen and ink with watercolour 21cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

Milk Extinguisher

The Flaming Hand and the Milk Extinguisher. A sketch for Card 27 in the forthcoming Divination series.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 21cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

Fitzroy Square

Mutual portraiture in Fitzroy Square, London.
Watercolour 20cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

Accidental Painting

Today's palette turned out a lot better than today's painting.
Acrylic on dinner plate. 27cm diameter. Click to enlarge.

Twins

Two guys on a horse. Probably based on this.
Acrylic on canvas board. 50cm x 60cm. Click to enlarge.

terRY-RYan

I was inspired to draw this "mnemonic portrait" of artist Terry Ryan after meeting him at the "The Map Is Not the Territory" show. My photo shows him holding his sketchbook, with a couple of his pictures on the wall behind.
Pen and watercolour 21cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

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.
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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.