…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….
…just in time to miss xmas….
…something in seasonal colours…..
…jingle bells….
….number something or other in a series of quite a few…
….fliiiiiiies…..
…(oh…and “living the doom”…)….
….from an ancient idea in a previous sketch book…
…based on cigar box seals….
…I think I was gonna make some cigar box guitars and got obsessed with that label patterns….
….or something….
…(apologies for the blurry bits….this sketchbook is warped beyond good scanning from pressing too hard with the pens!)….
…(casually wanders in from stage left and sticks something on wordpress like there’s been no gap in his content)….
…(will probably make some lame excuse like “I’ve been busy with the transition from finishing one large piece to starting another…and I quit my job”…or similar)….
….sorry for the gap in transmission team….
….I’ve been busy with the transition from finishing one large piece to starting another…
….and I quit my job….
…(can’t say I didn’t warn you)….
….squid squad out…
…octopods in…
…mmmm…
…tentacly….
…some of these…
… i never get sick of them….
…kinda in that uneasy space between finishing something large and trying to start the next one…
…have a screed of notes and colour guides developing around my drawing table in preparation…
…was going to post some more sketchbook only to discover that I’d re-scanned the last page posted thinking it was the one I wanted to put up now…
…had to finish the above (abandoned since January) to get back into paintbook without guilt….
…now I want to do a “good” version to hang!….
…(ah…there’s that next rabbit hole…)….

Regular
…so, in the top left corner of the colour page from the last post there is a stylised representation of what a grouping of the fang-toothed-octopuses-in-a-variety-of-colours would look like….
…I wanted to investigate that further without having to do the whole damn thing and smashed out a couple of small, reversible templates to do this….
….(quietly, very pleased with the results)….
…(and, accidentally, solved the not-so-popular-fang-toothed problem)….
: o
…Paintbook is not only a place to express ideas in colour seperate from that dirty, broken old A5 thing I call a sketch book, it is also a place to stick bits of grease proof paper that I’ve used to create a reverse image of a piece I’d like to replicate facing the other way….
…(the finished piece marked “C” is the reverse image of which I speak and seems to have wandered off…lucky the other two are enough of a prompt to get the process rolling again!)….
…Sketchbook is also a repository for layouts of “The Greater Plan” I mentioned yesterday…..
…(…25 multi-coloured octopus panels on A4 sized sheets of light ply…probably have to be a retirement project)….
Bored with a record shop. 