She Looks Pale - Madame Bovary

A rather long - necked, sick looking Madame Bovary. A detail from a pen and ink drawing created in 2010. At the time, I was allowing any minor mistakes ie ink blots, to remain, in my work.

I like the fact that the negative space exhibits the texture of the water colour paper. 

There are a whole series of these red and black ink drawings, produced over a period of several months (during 2010). I was aiming to hold an exhibition and sell them - but I couldn't bear to part with even one !

She Looks Pale

A Far Cry From Porridge

A very simple but delicious recipe from ENTCS

Recipe

Another lovely recipe from ENTCS

A Maharaja on a baby elephant ! 

Chicken Tikka Masala was a dish, first created for the British palate. It features in the top 10 of all time, UK favorite meals.

Another Illustrated Talk

I completed illustrating this talk around a year ago. Not sure why I didn't post it before. There are two other illustrated talks on this blog : The Importance of Making Things and Extreme Longevity.

This one covers meat, grown in a laboratory. Could be the future !!

Filthy Shades of Grey.....

A quick little gag cartoon succeeded in getting into Private Eye a few weeks back.......

A recent piece for.....

......my friends at Get AHead VA

A blog article talking on business being deserving of the services of a virtual assistance agency.

Will post the pic and article together later.

Happy Birthday

Dull Hat Society

Lamb Cutlets - full pic

The colours seem to have come out a little different from the original here. They were painted in acrylic (rather than produced in Photoshop) and scanned in.

Lamb Cutlets - detail

Lamb cutlets in olive oil marinade

Potato Salad

Alternative Recipe

An alternative way of depicting a recipe. 

Produced for the fantastic ENTCS cookery school a few weeks ago

Whoops! (more bunny stuff)

New Teeth

Illustrating Talks

 A few weeks ago I illustrated some talks - the results of which I am posting here.

Functionality, design, aesthetics, beauty versus economic value and monetary worth

How old can we go ? 

Valentine's Coming Up

With Valentine's Day coming up I have been working on a few card designs which I will aim to sell through an online greetings card company.

Here are 3 of them:

This one works because the girl isn't too girly !!

End of 2011 - Migraine

Had a pretty good Christmas but saw the last few days of 2011 out with a Migraine.

I've suffered with this foul condition for many years but on Dec 28th, decided to try and visualize what the beginning of going into the 'M' zone actually feels like.

For me, it normally starts with a stiff neck that rises. There's a horrible drained feeling and a sensitivity to sound, then the shuddering starts. Quite often I end up vomiting several times and able to do nothing but lie in bed.

During a migraine I'll put my hand over my head and it feels as if I could fit my head within the palm of my hand... a bizarre shrunken head sensation...

This condition is remarkably common. I regard it as a huge waste of time but after I've had one, I get an enormous amount of energy and a lot of work done!!