Mind Games

89. Mind Games
Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

I've always wanted to create an image for that phrase, now is my chance.

shoes

88. A strange thing happen''s to some women when they go shoe shopping!
Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

I don't think I'll ever understand a women's relationship with shoes.

day dreams

87. Day Dreamer
Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

I'm absolutely a day dreamer, I would say that's where almost all my work comes from, just getting lost in my own thoughts.

really fun people (not)

86. Some people just seem to suck the fun out of life.
Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

fortunately I don't know too many people like this, I mean I may not be the life and soul of the party, but I'm not that bad.

Painting Demo at Ballakermeen High school.

85.Bed Head
Acrylic on board

30cm x 21cm

So today I did a painting demo and talk at Ballakermeen High school, and though I had a great time, I must admit I've been burning the candle at both ends a bit lately, so I've been dreaming of bed all day.

more print making

84. loving and Hating
dry point engraving (print making)

15cm x 11cm

I've thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to do some printmaking of late, though I think this might be the last one for awhile. 

wonderings

83. Were there ever any stars in the sky?
dry point engraving (print making)

15cm x 11cm

sometimes I wonder.

Monday blues (a little)

82. The emptiness of achievement 
Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

do you ever work hard at something for any length of time and achieve your goal, and then immediately feel a little empty inside, like there is a cloud hanging over the achievement, I do and I don't know why.

self belief.

81. We all believe we are rock stars.
Etching

15cm x 11cm

I think this is true.

forgetful.

80. Head like a sieve 
Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

if the things that I had forgotten were made of water, then they would fill an ocean.

Negetivity

79. Negative people
Digital
10.5cm x 10.3cm

I think whenever you undertake any kind of endeavour (creative or otherwise) you always run into people who tell you can't do it or it's too hard, I mostly ignore them, but this is how I see them.

School painting demos

78. So Bored my face might melt off!
 Acrylic on board

30cm x 21cm

So I did a painting Demo at Castle Rushen High School today, this was good as this was my old high school, so I wanted to do a painting based on some of my experiences as a high school student, though there were many classes I enjoyed, there were a few that bored me to death, I used to day dream that I was so bored my face would melt off. Also I felt old today as I worked out that it has been 18 years since I graduated high school :(

Leaves

77. Leaving Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

I have done versions of this idea before, as drawings and paintings, but it never quite felt right, I think this montage way of working seems to be (in my opinion) the best version of the idea, don't get me wrong the other techniques had nice qualities to bring to the theme, but this is the closest to how the idea looks in my head.

More Tea?

76. If there is such a thing as a tooth fairy then why is there no Tea fairy?
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

so yeah, why?

Monday... it comes round too fast.

75. The start of the week
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

Does anyone else feel this way about Monday mornings?

Yap yap

74. some people just talk
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

You know those people who just talk and talk, yet some how manage to say nothing at all?  yeah me too.

Smile.

73. Smile, it's the weekend!
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

I love a fried breakfast.

The Blog has had over 10,000 views :D

72. The Pessimist
 Print making (dry point)

15cm x 20cm

So completely not in keeping with the good news that the blog has been viewed more than 10,000 times, here is a dry point image about pessimism. 

Beards

71. You're all just jealous of my beard!
 Acrylic on board

30cm x 21cm

So today i did a painting demo at St. Ninian's high school, I haven't shaved in awhile so i was worried that students would rip it out of my ginger beard, so i thought of this image, i think it went down very well.

a bit of printmaking

70. The optimist
 Print making (dry point)

15cm x 20cm

It's been a long time (10 Years) since I last did any print making and so when the opportunity arose, i jumped at the chance I plan to do some more print making as the project progresses. there is something I really like about the quality of line you get with etching.I'd like to say a big thank you to Claire Pullinger, our print making lecturer at the Isle of Man college and her Friday morning Print class for letting me gate crash.

houses

69. why do houses all look like they have faces?
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

just something I've always wondered.. answers on a postcard please.

Monday mornings

68. I Hate the mornings.
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

Anyone else feel this way about Monday mornings? 

creative block

67. The creative block.
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

some days the ideas just don't come, I often feel that the creative block is a parasitic insect that stops ideas from coming to me.

knowledge

66. The burden of knowledge.
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

People say ignorance is bliss and maybe they are right, so here is an image depicting the problems of knowing too much.

keep it clean

65 keep your nose clean.
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

the phrase "you need to keep your nose clean" has always baffled me a little :)

A painting demo at QE2 high school.

64. A fish out of Water
 Acrylic on board

30cm x 21cm

talking to high school students makes me feel a little out of my depth... hence the title.

Drink?

63. Drink like a fish
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

Fish appear throughout my back catalogue of work, I'm amazed it has taken this long for one to appear in this project.

revisiting old themes

62. beauty from pain. (dying revisited)
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

for my first exhibition (quite a few years ago now) I did a painting called dying, it proved extremely popular, one of the wonderful people who buy my work has never forgiven me for selling it, so I have been requested to create a similar image.. so Happy birthday Julie James, I know it's not the same as the image you like but it is in the same vein. :)

rough mornings

61. the morning after the night before..
 Digital

10.5cm x 10.3cm

I think (hope) this image speaks for itself, I'm trying to capture the feeling of walking home after a particularly messy house party. (not that i do that sort of thing any more).

Dinner party

60.Dinner party
 Digital

14.8cm x 17.3cm

whenever I get an invite to a dinner party my brain interprets  the phrase as a dinner that's having a party. maybe I need help :s

Can't sleep :(

59.Can't sleep!
 Digital

14.8cm x 17.3cm

I'm not really much of a night owl, I like to get up early(ish) but now and again I get nights where, no matter how hard I try, I can't sleep.