Finished up my other arm today. Keeping a window to a moment in time, my first tattoo from 2012. My totem, the winged bull of St Luke, patron saint of artists, I vowed I’d get it done from the first money I earnt from my art. Except I was broke at the time and needed […]
This all started from the realisation that I needed to back up the blog in a way that wasn’t a dataset, a way that was readable by humans. If my Act 1 was learning to draw, then Act 2 was learning how to create documents, which came in handy automating some big chunks of setting this […]
A few weeks back I did an overnighter at Rocky Paddock. There were a few tears but it was a great night, sitting by a fire at site 24 drinking beers. Definitely time away to recharge, reclaiming the place and not needing to write myself off. Writing haiku and reminding myself to think about the […]
There were a few birthdays back in the day that had meaning, milestones with parties, but now even the big round numbers seem redundant. This one just past was significant, for the excuse to get tattooed on the day, but that story is for another time. The big moments in life never land neatly on […]
I nearly did this as a wedgie drawing before the last was finished. The wheels fell off a few things and it felt like a reminder to not get ahead of myself. But things have gone well since, maybe a reminder not to assume things will go badly either. Bring on the new year.
I started this one a while ago. It had a bit of the new year’s resolution to it, more I’ve got to do something than knowing the direction. Things have changed along the way, mainly seeing a counsellor, which is helping. If the pieces of the model were choices that could be made, the notebook […]
Passed cystoscopy number 10 yesterday. Maybe it was because I’m on a week’s holidays, but I was pretty blasé about this one. No drawing even! On the bus to the hospital there were a group of Down Syndrome teens on an outing. It was a sunny day and they were having an infectiously fun time. […]
A reminder to myself from today, vowing to let other people do crap work and not stick my nose in. A play on cutting it off instead, I originally imagined it as a leaping action pose wildly slashing with a sword to narrowly slice, leaving a skull-like nose stump. As you do. Maybe Japanese flavoured […]
The last one was a great visualisation, so this is a bit of a reboot with a reason, with a central goal to tie it together. Leaving off the obvious, like being a good husband and father(!), and passing all my tests…
No resolutions this year, just this as a statement of intent, an underline to the end of last year. Started during the week off between jobs, and a conclusion to the accidental blue series. It began with the resistance of “hammer’n’tongs”, continued with the risk of “ballast”, and ends with this, the reemergence from the […]