Birdtables

Birdtables

ink & acrylic on card
from "Jaggy Nettles" at Amble, 2008


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My Dad for Illustration Friday: 'legendary'

The Illustration Friday topic this week is 'legendary'. I've chosen to draw my dad. He's a quiet, hardworking, occasionally hilarious man. These 4 doodles show roughly how he's looked throughout his life.

Urban Outfitters Exhibition, Glasgow

The awesome Recoat guys have put on a wee satellite exhibition in Urban Outfitters, Glasgow. My little 2 Tree Barks drawing is in there alongside work by folk like Elph and Rue Five. I might pop through for a gander. Here's a photo. my drawing is in the smaller dark frame:

All work is for sale, contact Recoat for more details: 01413410069 or email info@recoatdesign.com. Urban Outfitters is on Buchanan St. and the wee gallery space is on the weird mezzanine bar thing. Have a look while you're buying a new hat.

2 Lost Scarves

Argh! In the past few weeks I've went and lost my 2 favourite scarves. Actually, 'lost' is being nice, as I suspect they may have been stolen. If I see anyone around town wearing either of these there'll be trouble, that's for sure.

The first one I lost, was an old brown scarf that was my dad's. It was awesome. I lost it somewhere in Stirling after the opening of Graham Fagen's show at the Changing Room. My main suspicion is that it was left amongst a big pile of bags & jackets in Nicky-Tams and that some chancer liked it and picked it up. However, we were also in the Darnley and the Tolbooth that night so who knows. I moaned about it all the way home.

The second was a surprise present from Alex, my girlfriend. She'd spotted it in a wee shop in Glasgow and reckoned I'd like it. I did, very much. It was left on a chair in the restaurant area of the MacRobert Arts Centre and seemed to vanish within the 10 mins it took me call them once I realised it was gone. (you get very good food that's cheaper than anywhere up there by the way)

Ah well. I'll keep checking around. If you spot either of these scarves, or anything similar, let me know. If you notice someone wearing one, punch them in the nose and steal it back. Thanks.

Let's Watch Men

I caught Watchmen last night. Having not read the comic, I didn't have too much invested in it. I decided to avoid reading any reviews or backstory beforehand anyway. Sometimes it's nice to see something with a completely open mind.

What did I think? Well, I wanted to like it but I wasn't too impressed. I'm sure the internet doesn't need another big rant about the silly thing, so I'll limit my 'review' to some odds and ends. I just wanted an excuse to draw that ink blot.

1. It's really, really, really long.
2. It's pretty boring.
3. It's a mess.
4. Dr Manhattan looks / is rubbish.
5. Actually, most of the cgi looks rubbish.
6. The make-up too.
7. I loved Rorschach though, he's really well cast.
8. The opening titles were ace.
9. Blue willy.

I won't even touch on the plot, as after reading some stuff I understand the whole thing has been fairly poorly translated to the screen. However for someone with no prior knowledge of the source, boy does it feel thin. I will give it this though; it's interested me enough to read the book.

Houses Should Have Long Legs...

I just realised that I never posted any images of my Tiny Showcase print. It was released last June and, much to my delight, sold out. I've never actually seen the thing in real life, so I can only go by these images from the T.S. site to get an idea of how it looks.

The image was from a set of drawings from my Analogue show titled Houses Should Have Long Legs. The rest of the captions are a little hard to make out from these photos but they read: Houses should have long legs / then you could live anywhere you want / and go out to sea when you get fed up.

Tiny Showcase produced a large letterpress print and a share of the sales was donated through them to Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland, for helping my Gran. Thanks Tiny Showcase! Have a look if you haven't already.

Wind Man

'Breezy' is the Illustration Friday topic this week, so that's an excuse to post this drawing. It was sent off to Zurich a little while ago and I've never seen it since. Maybe it blew away.

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15 Corn Flakes & 10 Bran Flakes

15 Corn Flakes & 10 Bran Flakes
ink & acrylic on card
from "Jaggy Nettles" at Amble, 2008


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