Cowboy Spacegun

This is the gun for Cowboy spaceman, from a series of paintings of robots and futuristic items.

Cityscape - wires and valves

Countdown to Christmas

Despite starting my shopping early - I am rapidly running out of time to get good Christmas presents for everyone.

Carnival Road

An oldie, but one I'm still working on slowly.

Just found out that a postcard I designed is one of 135 selected for a new book about international postcard design - created by http://www.flat33.com/flat33_v2/index_home.html

The book will be out September 2008.

Plockton ideas

Where the animals hide (2007)

Inital colour test sketch for a painting inspired by the book "The testement of Gideon Mack." Will try and complete this and a further series of 6 paintings by this time next week.

Hmmm can't decide if pen and ink overlaid looks good or not http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1277/589423855_fab8a2ee37_o.jpg

Cars are bad

Transport in Glasgow and Scotland as a whole is a bit of a mess. Our neighbours across in mainland Eurpoe seem to have it so much better sorted. Not only do many of these countries have clean, efficent, reliable and cheap transport systems many are also intergrated and you can by a single ticket that will cover your travel on any mode of public transport within a city for the whole day. Glasgow on the other hand has a quite bewildering range of different companies fighting for your attention and your pennies. This could however be about to change as Glasgow City Council has just advertised a job for someone to work with the various companies and develop some kind of smart card system.

The above is all sounding good but there is also worrying news that the largest bus company has raised their ticket prices again and an all day ticket which not long ago was £1.80 will now be £3. Pretty steep rise to use a slightly smelly and opften not brilliant service when the company in question posted profits last year of £210million.

See my previous car rant here.

red bird

Wood

Lumberjack (14cm x 20cm)

My cousin told me a story about his adventures on the NYC underground. One morning, in his first week of work, when getting on the train, he dropped his paper. As he bent down to pick it up, the doors closed and he got stuck with his head on one side and his body still on the platform. Luckily the train won't move if the doors aren't fully closed so he didn't have to run really quickly down the tunnels. The New Yorkers quickly lept to his assistance and forced the doors open. Once free Stuart fell face first into the train and then had to try and stand up with the remenants of his dignity and act like everything was ok.

Sailing home

Lily Ship
(30 x 15)

Robots of the future 2

38-58 (20cm x 14cm)
R45-22 (20cm x 14cm)
K5 (20 x 14)

Some more wee Robots from my Robots of the future series.

Had a grand weekend away on the Isle of Arran for my cousins wedding. Was good to see all the family away in such nice relaxed settings dressed up in their finest. Spent a lot of time beside big log fires and enjoyed some nice ice-cream but have caught a cold, boo.

On a cold and dark night

Luna - Chapter 5: The deepest wood

Hmmm, I shall have to start making some new things and stop stealing work from my portfolio and posting them up here. This is a sketch from a picture book I started playing with about a little girl who goes in search of the Moon.

Portrait 2

Royal Tenenbaum. (20cm x 14cm)


Think I'll try to post a new image on here every few days. Will be a good idea to force myself into being more creative.

Robots of the future

Steve the robot (20cm x 14cm)

Started a series of paintings of robots, spaceships and spacemen of the future. This is the first one and is called TR3-01x otherwise known as Steve.

Footie

The most hated man in the world (20cm x 14cm)

Half-time (20cm x 14cm)


Going to enter a competition to make some art related to football for a competition at the Lowry in Manchester. Made these two last night and unsure which to enter or if to enter them at all. But after a couple of months of studying its good to get my paintbrushes working again.

Portrait 1

Captain Steve Zissou of the SS Belafonte. (20cm x 14cm)