The Golden tongue

I always consult the Golden Tongue before making a big decision. Another from the Dream of Eudora.
Paper app on iPad. Click to enlarge.

Big Up Cerne

The Cerne Abbas giant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant
for the From Memory group www.flickr.com/groups/artfrommemory/
Paper53 on iPad

Thoth v Cerberus

After the debacle at flickr I've been busy setting up an alternative at ipernity. Then a spell at the hugely entertaining Encyclopaedic Palace and the Art Olympics has delayed posting here. Anyhow, here's today's painting.

The Waukrife of Wu

I have designed these ceremonial robes for The Waukrife of Wu in return for the exceptional work performed in salvaging the ancient traces of U'ut washed up on the shores of Dun-Holm.
Gouache 27cm x 29cm. Click to enlarge.

Melancholic Detail

An addition to yesterday's post. A sort of melancholic Cloud of Unknowing idea playing itself out.

Gouache approx 17cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

Soul of Rice

In Indonesia they think each grain of rice has a soul.
Casein paint and gouache. 21cm x 21cm. Click to enlarge.

Vole Art Sweet

I've started a new project similar to the Maps from Memory series. The idea is to draw or paint my favourite works of art entirely from memory....no peeking allowed. This is my recollection of an etching from Picasso's Vollard Suite.
Pen and ink 11cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

King no.43

King no.43 in action.
Pen and ink with watercolour, gouache, water-soluble crayon and digital colour. A3 size. Click to enlarge.

King No.42

I'm doing a series of kings. This is no.42
Watercolour, gouache and ink. 17cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

Munnin

The Raven of Memory has been flying around my studio this week.
Acrylic on canvas 15cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

The Iowa Badger

The Iowan Badger is, of course, a distant relative of the Iowa Cow.
Acrylic on canvas 15cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

B-ark

I dreamed that Noah forced his dog to do a test run on a prototype ark.
Gouache 12.5cm x 18cm. Click to enlarge.

The Kazilik Horse

I'm looking forward to riding my black-maned Kazilik horse again.

Acrylic, watercolour, pencil, pen, collage. 21cm x 23.5cm. Click to enlarge.

Postcard 16

Postcard 16 depicts the war between the Greeks and the Chinese.
Watercolour, pencil and acrylic 10cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

The Mecox Popesse

A fragment of the artwork from the game board of The Game of Spodunk showing the first two squares. It's very unlucky to land your goose on La Popesse.
Pen and ink on watercolour 28cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.

The Beard

Card 29 in the current series is now ready.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.

Ouroboros

It's your typical Ouroboros with a touch of the old Theosophical Star thrown in for good measure. A linocut commissioned by an old hippie.
Linocut with digital colour. 18cm x 17cm. Click to enlarge.

Galgossian

I saw this long white galgo in the park the other day. It resembled a sketch I drew earlier.
Pencil and brushpen on newsprint with collage. Click to enlarge.

Wizard Good Show

A wizard magicked himself out of my pen.
Pen and ink with digital colour. 20cm x 8cm. Click to enlarge.

Hairy wild men

You could spend a lifetime exploring the Victoria & Albert Museum. After visiting the Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography exhibition I trickled through the splendid Medieval Galleries and Cast Courts where I sketched these curiosities: a stone head with three faces, a small wooden figure of a hairy "wild man" from Switzerland, a painting of a similar "wild woman" with only her pink breasts poking out of the fur, and a superb carving of a man wearing a bonkers hat on the doors of Aix-en-Provence cathedral.
Pencil,pen and wash A5 and A6 sizes. Click to enlarge.