Killing time with Charlie Watts.
Charlie’s good tonight
William Shatner
“The past is who you are” said the man on TV. But I’m not so sure…
The good stuff and the bad stuff—it’s always there at your fingertips, accumulating continuously as you go about your days. Sometimes, you look back and shudder. I certainly do. But where you are right now is really all there is. If you’re haunted by the bad stuff, then you have to look it hard in the face, see it for what it is. That was then, this is now. Move on. You shouldn’t need to be defined by what you’ve done, the good and the bad, but especially the fuck-ups…
I thought William Shatner would be a good way to illustrate this. The actor who can never get away from his most famous role. So here he is, pretending he’s not at home, Captain Kirk forever banging on the door.
Jokerman
Bob Dylan writing ‘Jokerman’.
Mark had a wonderful dream
Drawing of Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte. The man in the shoe is Mark’s deputy, Hugo de Jonge. I don’t know much about Hugo except that he is very confident in his choice of footwear.
Alles gaat de goed kant op
“Alles gaat de goed kant op” (Everything’s going in the right direction).
Portrait of Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, in celebration of his decade in power, and recent re-election on the back of the ‘toeslagenaffaire’ — a scandal involving false allegations of fraud against some 26,000 Dutch families, many with immigrant backgrounds, and many of whom were left financially ruined as a result. Go Mark!
Who am I really?
Buckets of rain, buckets of tears, got all them buckets comin’ out of my ears. Ink and pencil on paper 44 x 44cm. Inspired by something I heard in a Rupert Sheldrake lecture on consciousness.
Skillmill interview
Interview on Skillmill’s Job and Industry Journal.
Many thanks to Juste Galminaite!
The dude in the chair
You cannot blame peanut butter…
…for all your problems. Pen, brush and ink + pencil—50 by 50cm portrait of Dr Younan Nowzaradan.
Rethink your ink
Saturday, May 8th I’ll be on Sketchbook Skool to show some of the things you can do with ink. If you’re interested in following along in this 3-hour workshop, to learn about 3 different ink techniques in one picture, then please check out the workshops at SketchbookSkool.com.