Ink drawing of me on the left and a made-up person on the right.
Self portrait with a made-up friend
Bike trouble
This is another one that hung around for about 6 months, waiting to be finished when really it was finished all along.
Monty Don
A new portrait of TV’s most reassuring gardener. Like Monty Don, I’m also growing tomatoes in my back garden but not many are looking that red yet, or are as big as Monty’s. Fingers crossed though.
This is the 2nd time I’ve done our Monty. The first one was a traditional number: ink, pencil, crayon and all that. This one, however, is drawn straight into Photoshop with my Wacom tablet.
Last night about midnight
Expat hotline
This one went on for ages. I drew the table and the guy on the phone about 6 months before but gave up on it. I do that sometimes.
Starting the picture is the exciting part, but that feeling can fade so I end up sitting on stuff. But as I was on a roll from the last picture, finishing this one happened quite easily. Also shown here is the first rough version.
Korzybski’s structural differential
This one started out innocently enough: a little drawing of a mother in law’s tongue plant. But along the way it swelled into a depiction of Korzybski’s structural differential—the idea that you can never truly know anything, only a very filtered version of it. Information comes in, information goes out, while most of it just floats away.
Twiske trees
Drawing trees again today with Katsia in Het Twiske. Maybe not as many as I’d hoped for, but hey. Available now, by the way, as a print from Etsy.
Orange from seed
Happy little orange tree—white gouache and white pencil on black paper, and black and grey ink and HB pencil on white.
Grown from a seed I kept from an orange I ate at my mum’s house last year.
Lemons from seeds
Happy little lemons tree—two versions: black and grey ink and HB pencil on white, and white gouache and white pencil on black paper.
Another experiment growing stuff from fruit I’ve eaten.
Oaks from seeds
Happy little oak trees: white gouache and white pencil on black paper, and black and grey ink and HB pencil on white.
Two little oak trees from acorns I kept from a visit to England last September.