Tree of Dooom

…look, I’m sorry about the sideways, ok?….

…couldn’t figure how to turn it right side up post “production”…

….but….

….I think it’s ok side rolling…

…just incase it isn’t for you….

….like I said in an earlier post…all I can do post-covid is paint circles…

….um…

…and use clay….

…a bit….

…a larger version of this with the skulls as candle receptacles is on the cards….

Sketchbook LXXIV

…yeah…

…so this seemed like a “natural” progression from everything I’ve been doodling leading up to this point …

…and the red and blue?….

…the green and black seem to run out faster in these four colour pens and I’m gonna try and even them out ‘cos I hate it when you run out on two colours and there’s ink to be used…

….(looks forlornly at pile of half used up four colour pens)….

Sketchy XVI

…this page….further musings on the “Raise Zealandia” idea and some plans for the library day bed….

…that page…back to the real work at hand….

….mmmm…sketchy….

Sketchy XIV

…(…”Wednesday” removed to reduce international time difference anxiety…)…

…the “Zealandia” in question is the submerged continent that New Zealand is the top of …not the native bird sanctuary in Wellington…

… the idea has it’s roots in that marvellous H.P. Lovecraft tale “The Call Of Cthulhu”…

…the well-spring of all things tentacly…

…(like I’d suggest burning down a bird sanctuary!)…

…dig deeper below….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia

https://www.visitzealandia.com/

So A Niece Of Mine Walks Into A Fugu Restaurant

….and tells me…..

…and this is what my brain turned it into….

…(admittedly after wandering around the house for a couple days going “fuuuuguuuuu” and laughing maniacally …and reading lots of Lovecraft…)…Scan 4

…yup, there may be more than one of these….