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Illustrator. Does a bit of sculpture. Makes jewellery. Draws on post-it notes. Balances rocks on top of each other. Builds zoomorphic stuff. Makes stuff. Draws stuff. Paints stuff. And a bit of beekeepery.
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Sadly, #animalalphabets ends this week Much of the joy of the twitter drawing challenges was their lovely supportive community. My thanks & best wishes to everyone who both had fun & made it fun. Thought this image is from Picture Book Characters was sorta topical #insaneOrangeMonarch

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Expanded the wishbone ring theme this weekend. Used much bigger 4x1.5mm D-shape silver wire this time so had to amend my process. Had enough supplies to make this stacked double ring combo #jewellery #silverring

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Rather enjoyed making this little silver wishbone ring at the weekend #jewellery

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New sculpture: 3.2mm brazed mild steel rod, cement base #sculpture #metalsculpture

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Biscuit, king of the sink Everyday is #caturday

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This fellow was part of my degree show back in the Olden Days. Having spent quite a long while hibernating in a drawer, it's lovely to have him back up on the wall in the living room #illustratorsofbluesky #illustration

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A new post-it note drawing: PNSQ_013-CN107 7.5 x 7.5mm It's a bit scruffy but I'm not making these often enough #postitnote #unipin #fineliner

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Biscuit's been behaving a bit suspiciously since he enrolled on that evening class course in undercover surveillance

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A bit of spot welding 4mm and 5mm steel rod 1mm steel sheet Height 36cm #sculpture #metalsculpture

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A ring I made at New Year. I'd been looking at Roman/Greek/Celtic jewellery and wanted it to have the feel of something from that era so I gave it a bit of hammer to give it a slightly irregular texture. The stone is a brazilian #tourmaline. #jewellery #jewellerystudent #silver #silverjewellery

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Scaling up a bit for a few weeks: rough offcuts of aluminium sheet and pop rivets. Stand is spot welded sheet steel #sculpture #aluminium

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Sorta pleased with how this image has become my new glasses case design. It's also easier to find than the old regular black case #glassescase

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I hadn't balanced anything for a while so I collected together a few little things that were knocking around the house and piled them up on top of each other #rockbalancing #catswhiskers

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Freddie and Biscuit wondering whether it's going to stop raining soon

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My top nine posts over on Instagram this past year are, for the first time in a while, mainly drawings #artvsartist #topnine #topnine2024

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Festive greetings fellow travellers 🌲 #merrychristmas #happyholidays #blueskychristmas

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This little fellow has just fledged and found his new forever home north of the border #makers #makersofbluesky

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The new cat in the back garden seems to know exactly how to pose properly for a photo #catsofbluesky #cats

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Clytemnestra running a bath for Agamemnon on his return from Troy: greek mythology advent day 15 #illo_advent #advent2024 #advent #adventcalendar #greekmythology #clytemnestra #agamemnon #troy #aeschylus

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Freddie cosplaying that he's a hipster cat in a 1940s film noir #caturday #catsofbluesky

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Day 10 of those advent mythology drawings Aphrodite's chariot was pulled by sparrows but, as this is an advent series, I've given her a festive robin instead #illo_advent #advent2024 #adventcalendar #advent #greekmythology #aphrodite #robin

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Freddie contemplating the nature of existence. Or possibly not #cats #catsofbluesky #deepthought

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#illo_advent Day 7: We're now in the House of Atreus, and Thyestes is eating a meal, a succulent barbecue meal Days 3 to 6 seem to have got buried under a pile of other stuff but Day 7 continues our ancient Greece theme #advent #advent2024 #ancientgreece #thyestes

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Day 2: Meanwhile, back on Crete, the Minotaur is letting King Minos beat him at minigolf #illo_advent #advent #advent2024 #adventcalendar

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You never know what lurks under blue skies - I mean sea... #art #kraken

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