Black Love

missed a couple of days this week - bah.
quote taken from the Afghan Whigs - Black Love is a favourite album of mine.
hmm the posting format has changed. how do I insert a space here?
ah - like this.

  the angel is undoubtedly a Ted McKeever copy - I loved his Metropol and Transit graphic novels.

wedding rings and angels' wings

who would an angel be married to?




christian slater if i recall.


supergrass. not a great likeness, but i quite like the drawing nonetheless.


superman. looks very slightly like Picasso.

16 years ago - new book

1996 - book of angels. not sure why - the film, Prophecy, the comic book, Preacher maybe.
hardback sketchbook - 348 x 330 - odd shape.

the inside front cover - a lot in this book was drawn with Rotring calligraphy pens...


..or brush and (Rotring) ink.


copies of Gustav Klimt drawings.


makes me think of Nick Cave.


portrait of a (forgotten) politician


portrait of a playwright.
a lot of the portrait sketches are done by looking at the photograph, but not the drawing/sketchbook whilst most of the drawing is done. this technique is quite hit and miss, but can lead to some interesting results where things don't quite fit properly.


easter then, easter now.


no idea.


again, no idea. this is one of those 'blind' portraits I mentioned, though. hatching, shading and other embellishments are added after the basics are drawn.

wings and washing up

Bird coloured yellow in tribute to James Rizzi - an artist who's work I've used a lot in school.


... now Daddy is buried beneath the patio.


from life, from a past life.




A few years ago I saw a guy, probably about 40, standing outside a service station smoking a pipe. It looked so weird - you just don't see pipe smokers anymore, do you?