lynda hardy on an envelope

My reasons for not posting ANYTHING in the last four months are manifold. I'm currently doing lots of teaching and when I'm home, looking after my daughter. This doesn't leave a lot of time for DRAWING and COLOURING IN. Despite this, I have been busy, although a lot of the stuff I've been working on has been done in the guise of my alter ego, Bill Buswell. Maybe I'll post some of it here when I've chance...

In the meantime, check out this MASTERPIECE, a result of months of gruelling labour. I saw this newsreader on BBC South Today (or whatever it's called) and decided I had to capture her likeness. Subsequent rummaging around on the interweb has revealed her to be Lynda Hardy and I found a photo of her there which you can use to check the level of verisimilitude between my facsimile and the actual, real, living, breathing Ms. Hardy (in photo-form). I expect the National Portrait Gallery will be on the phone any time soon...

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mosaic mask

Mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl drawn during a recent visit to the British Museum.

Too much emphasis on hatching and not enough on the mosaic tiles – something I tried to remedy when I coloured the drawing. I drew random four-sided objects in Photoshop and then made custom brushes of these to try and capture the irregular shape of the tiles used on the original mask.

... and on that farm he had some pigs ...

... one relatively normal pig and one disembodied phantasm that floated around the farmyard scaring visitors and generally making a nuisance of itself.

... and on that farm he had some cows ...

... one of which was singing Different Drum.

... and on that farm he had some chicks ...

Well, a chick (singular)...

... and on that farm, he had a horse ...

And the horse wasn't singing Biffy Clyro. Or anything else for that matter.

old macdonald had a farm, ee-eye, ee-eye, oh...

Old Macdonald. Or the Ginger Butcher as he's affectionately known around these parts. For some reason, he's singing a Biffy Clyro song – it must have been on iTunes as I was drawing.