Old(ish) Stuff

It's a slow blog week, cos I'm working on a body of portraits that I'm posting on a group blog over at pre-faces.blogspot.com so here's a couple of recent commissions:

and some more sketches of Jeffrey Archer. Why oh why oh why ...

I think I almost got him in that last one.

WIP?

I think it's finished ...

& I planned to do a frame and patterns all over the background of these ones, but I quite like them as they are:

It's Venice Jim, but not as you know it. Ha ha - shame about the rubbish photography.

The Bunny Shot

Sorry, rubbish pun (although I'm secretly quite pleased with it (not so secret now)), but hey look, here's the last one:

and when you put them all together - WOO HOO!:

hmm, well maybe in a different order:

or like this ...

...

Dogboy

On occasion I have been known to scribble a quick kiddy story, so why not put them on a website? Why not indeed:

www.yetispaghetti.me.uk

Bunny No. 3

Oh poor bunny number 3 with his plain background, just a filler, third in a series, will anybody ever want him? ...

nmaD

nmaD, nmaD, nmaD, nmaD. I take it all back, it's not quite the total disaster I was thinking it would be. I've painted the lines grey (which I always thought I might have to) and outlined the white heads and praise be, I can live with it again.

Also managed to finish another new exciting wallpaper landscape (this time with broken cowboy doll - yeehaw! cos that's what they say, although being as this is the lone ranger that's very wrong)

Damn

Damn, damn, damn, damn damn. You start these things, you get all excited and then you put the background colour on and it all goes wrong. I like the figures, I like the pink and I like the guy with the glasses, but the 6 white heads aren't working for me. I'm going to have to redo them or paint them out or something ... Damn.

On a brighter note here's my video I posted ages ago on you-tube which I've figured out how to embed. (Not rocket science I know, but little steps - I'm psyching myself up to do the twitter thing again, but maybe it's too soon.)

Carpe Diem

2011 - oo yes it's gonna be big.

Enough of Jeffery Archer (for now). Here's something a bit more interesting:

And the work in progress is still progressing. It's getting to the exciting bit:

What colour will the background be? Oo I can't wait ...

Find out in next week's thrilling episode.

As someone said to me as I gloomily looked forward at 2011:

"Attack the day"

Raaarghh!