[Full disclosure: Matt Taylor is one of my fellow seekers of the Holy Grail from Comic Camp in Florida last year. Luckily however I have taken the Book Reviewer’s Oath of Utter Sincerity, and therefore, you have my personal guarantee there is no plámás, flattery or buttering up whatsoever in the following. (Of course, it does help …
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Drupal people are so nice. None of that guff you get like a stream of code out of some programmers: echo $he->greet(); // prints “Dude, I can’t believe you haven’t heard of GIT or SVN. BUB-bye.” echo ‘ ‘; Or anything at all like that. I had indeed been having some – uh – issues with Drupal of late. It’s been a …
You are invited to the Big Tree Big Draw, for National Tree Day in the National Botanic Gardens this Thursday 6th October. It’s free! And materials are included! Click here for more information.
I was in London, that mighty heart, for what seemed like ten minutes last weekend. But, oh! What a ten minutes it was! For (apart from having such an interesting time with my cousin and her husband, who are great people) I attended a workshop run as part of the The Big Draw in King’s Place, with …
I love Ira Glass. I mean, I love Ira Glass. No, you don’t understand, I LOVE Ira Glass, ever since I first lived in the USA, in a rickety flat that backed onto a Chinese restaurant, and had but a loaned AM radio for entertainment AND company. I was far from home. I knew no one. But …
Well, this departs somewhat from the purpose of this blog, which was meant to be about drawing, wasn’t it. But I have joined a choir. I thought it would be Good For Me. Ah. What a familiar phrase. It’ll be written on my gravestone. I thought it’d be good for me to be an absolute beginner, like people …
So, I had this idea. That sounds like the preamble to a police statement, doesn’t it? But never mind that. I have this idea for a short story. Short! Short is good. Less unwieldy than the Tome I have been battling with, which will have to go on the back burner in the interim. (The Tome has …
Done today, for the poster Anne and I are doing for The BIG DRAW, in the Botanic Gardens, in the rain. That’s au plein air, I tell you. It’s placed too centrally, but we can crop it to fix that. I don’t know if the immensity of the tree is reading though. Maybe it needs …
Waiting for the floor guy – oh the painful minutiae of first world angst – I drew this from the balcony of my old place in Charlotte Quay. Waiting is often good drawing time – any forced period of inactivity is. Train journeys, too. The skyline has changed enormously since I lived there six years …
I think what is required here is a re-do of my roughs, and then – well, then, I’m going to need an editor. An Editor. In the meantime, I found some really appallingly bad life paintings, painted over them in white, felt better after that, the evidence being destroyed, and now am using them to …