I'm not lazy I have still been drawing and painting to a certain degree...

I hadn't used acrylic since my A-levels, heres some stuff I painted when I became sick of the smell of white spirit.

These are part of a short story I was working on. Repetition of symbols and ideas.

I thought I'd already posted this...My smallest ever painting of some random fellow.

For James Andrew Daniel, my drunken friend.

Some of the things I have been wasting my time on recently. I've been busy with work, so haven't uploaded stuff in a while.

These are some of the images I have done in the past couple of months. Mostly experiments with media.

This is my first real attempt at digital colouring. I have been tempted to try it for a while now, but I needed to find the right image. The line work on this self portrait was simple enough for me to have a go at it without it being too complex. Also the reference material was right in front of me, in case I got into any trouble.
This self portrait drawn from a mirror that was positioned directly beneath my chin as I look at it.

This image was a response to a poem I found in the Clive Barker book, 'Abarat: Nights of Magic, Days of War.

Do not blame the wind.
It carries whatever freight
It is laden with, fair and foul.
It brings gossip,
It brings laughter,
It brings prayers
And songs of love.
It brings the chatter
Of madmen and children,
Not knowing one from the other.
Do not blame the wind.

One of the more satisfying pieces I have produced in recent months, it's really an experiment with texture, in this case newspaper along with an ink drawing. The guy is a musician called Bob Schneider, from the album 'I'm Good Now'.

This is just an experiment I had done with ink. I used to produce a lot of my images like this, when I was apeing Bill Sienkiewicz, I'm going through a similar phase right now. He is just too damn good. Damn him!

Here is my most recent painting. I completed it about three weeks ago, it is about turning dreams into reality. The photograph is a bit shaky.

This image was the first concept image of my childrens book.

These are some monotypes I produced last year. Basically a monotype is a printed painting created by inking up a flat surface with a oil- based ink, and then making marks into the ink that composes the image, by taking the ink away with a rag or brush. The plate is run through a press with some heavy rag paper that has been soaked in water. These prints are one-offs and cannot be duplicated.

This is my first 'commission', it is a painting of my girlfriend, Fiona. It was requested by her Mum, it took a couple of hours to complete over a couple of days. Though her Mum wouldn't receive the painting until a good 8 mouths later.