Just catching up on Girls today. During the day, gasp, but it was for Work Purposes, you see. Tried to draw Hannah and Adam – the one of Adam was the more successful. Lena Dunham looked like A Generic Woman. I do enjoy a portrait and this is painted digitally which is such an easy technique, …
My mother and I amuse ourselves with jigsaws and desultory conversation on Sunday afternoons, over endless cups of Darjeeling and almond cake. We were talking about our first memories; hers was of her first banana. It was wartime and her uncle, on leave from the Maritime Marine, brought a bunch home. He and his family lived …
It’s so great to have the tome finished. I have space in my brain! Of course I can’t wait to start to clutter it up again. So many ideas! I am trying to choose one, with the power of thumbnails. Must. Narrow. Down.
(Remorse is done, after two years. Phew! *Goes to lie down in darkened room*.) Remorse is a tragic-comic about a young Dubliner who takes a turn down the wrong corridor and ends up working in a call-centre.. for ten years. Step into a world of cubicles, vending machines, broken hearts and photocopiers; hold music, nightmares …
And sorry for neglecting you, blog. It’s been busy, you see. I’ve been working on REMORSE, still and again, now and seemingly forever and FINALLY FINALLY am on the FINAL part. It was so nice to thumbnail out the final pages, over Christmas, and tie together all the loose ends. It’s been a.. while, shall we say. It’s been …
Poor ould Penny. Things will get better! Or will they? Just a few more pages to go to the END.
Still chipping away at REMORSE, which still mysteriously has 10 pages left to do, as it has had for the last 5 weeks, no matter how many pages I do for it. Maybe I am caught in a time loop and it will always be Ten. More. Pages. Anyway! I think a properly reverential nod …
It’s 2001 and the world will never be the same again.
I’d like to have hair like this: