Waste not want not.

The first picture is a piece my house mate started  (which was then screwed up and put in the bin.) The picture started out with only the outline of the octopus in the foreground and  a pencil outline of the arm on the far right. I added to the drawing to turn it into an mechanical underwater scene. The second image I started then abandoned and a friend added to it until it became a doodled bird. The last drawing I drew a pen outline doodle before giving it to my house mate to finish.

Then and Now

For every piece of work I finish there are always three or four abandoned pieces that I never quite got around to doing anything with. After having a little look through my old sketch books I found a few that I wanted to finish. Here is the first, a little world built on a rickety wooden tower.

Another confused octopus.

Another confused octopus drawn and coloured in a morning.

An Octopus in the clouds

The result of an hour drawing challenge.

Work In Progress - Session Eleven

and the growth continues...

Work in Progress- session Ten.

After a long break I have finished putting up my first solo show and now I can start tackling this bad boy again.

Tea stained Glade inspired doodle

Runcible Landscapes and Cephalopods

Some more of my smaller bits and bobs. All of these pieces and more are up to view and buy at Infinity Foods Cafe On Gardner street, North Laines in Brighton. For a map look here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=infinity+foods+cafe&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=infinity+foods+cafe&hnear=0x48758509f6294167:0x9cc6af7a727d0ef9,Brighton,+The+City+of+Brighton+and+Hove&cid=0,0,3651963176449373381&ei=cP28T7TACq3Y0QXbnsg7&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=map-marker-link&resnum=1&ved=0CHIQrwswAA

Little Bits

Although I love the challenge of making massive doodles most of my work is on a much smaller scale. Here are some of my new ones.

Jessica's Jukai

I was asked to draw a picture with only one direction given "sea and trees" so I knew I had to incorporate the sea and a dense forest. I thought that a forest on the edge of a lake left me with little room to fill with sea creatures and a lot of dead space under the trees. To get past this issue I decided to put the sea under the trees hidden in a cavern never seen by surface dwellers. I filled the sea with Cephalopods and fishes and then packed into the dense wood land strange unrecognisable creature crawl amongst the foliage.

Work in progress- Session Nine.

I've been waiting on pens for forever  but the bank holiday is nearly over so other projects can continue, meanwhile I've been expanding the big one.

Bollywood Bonanza

So I got asked by the lovely people at Happy Daze to create a Bollywood inspired image for their next night. I came up with a few ideas but mirrored images seem to have the desired affect. You can see more bollywood inspired awesomeness along with some amazing music makers at Happy Daze: The Bollywood Bonanza, The Arc Bar, Broad St. Bristol on the 4th of May. Have a look here: https://www.facebook.com/events/380918045254824/