…while you were out….

…trying to tidy some loose ends from 2017….

…get some of these things finished and into frames……bought a matt cutter….and some proper framing tape….

…let battle commence.

 

2017

…last sunset for the weather tree……things were built……shit got real……Tiny Pieces of Eight played under a bridge… …well, next to a bridge, but still my gig of the year….

…then Dee bought me a kitty…

…so I gave kitty an octopus…

…and wrapped it up…

…and gave it back to Dee….

…happy new year….

…soon.

Destination Destination Destination

…went to the secret location in the weekend….…the weather was Autumn…but I got a feed of field mushrooms……which went well with the two and a half kgs of bacon I had to make disappear after the fridge/freezer malfunction earlier in the week……replaced the stylus on the holiday home stereo and dug into my holiday crate…….mucked about in the sketch book….….did some shonky cider powered math….…and made a (second attempt) passable jig for round-frame things……worked harder than when I’m actually working…….a marvellous break from the shop….…here are some directions to the secret location….

In Hamilton

…pretty much every 3rd or 4th form art class used to be dragged down to the river to draw this wonderful old structure….

….and a regular drunken dare was “walking the humps”…

 

…love that bridge!

…(I note that my drawing hasn’t improved greatly since last I drew it for since said 3rd/4th art class…in the late 70s ….I have got better at octopi though…).

 

…(this piece was produced after I assumed that the folk assembling the H-town anthology might prefer a single page rather than a 4 page rant from an ex-pat who hadn’t set foot in Hamilton of rover 25 years…they didn’t want either!)…

When You Gotta Go

…you gotta go.

Spit

…not sick, today…

 

…today, it’s spit.