Cat and dog.

Here is a drawing of a cat...

Drawn from an image by Darknight-stock .

This, meanwhile, is a drawing of a dog...

 and no ordinary dog but Buster, otherwise known as Babby Dogs, who lives here...

Galatea

Quick little sketch of Raphael's Galatea...

This went relatively smoothly although it's a copy of a large, complex mural as a tiny sketch. I remembered what they say about putting in the large shapes first, and then refining these down. In so doing I noticed that the composition is basically two triangles, pointing upwards, one on top of the other, with less distinct downward-pointing triangles or 'V' shapes overlaid over them (one formed by the arrows pointing down to Galatea's head, the other by the heads of the two figures on the one side and the back of the Triton on the other, pointing down to the cherub at the bottom). So there's geometry amid that chaos.

A girl called 145

Based on this  

Naked Wednesday

It's Wednesday, it must be time for another nude. This taken from Zedul...

More tattoos from my artwork.

The other day I stumbled across this Templar tattoo, which someone has got based on an image of mine...

And just now someone sent me a photo of a tattoo they had got based on my two angels/skull illusion design, which now features on cards by Eastgate Resource. Keep them coming!

I met the artist Anne Stokes at the Eastgate Resource stand, at the Spring Fair in Birmingham last year, at the NEC. Funnily enough the people at the company had requested fewer of her trademark skulls in the imagery they had commissioned from her for cards, etc. That makes it strange that the first image they took of mine features a great big skull! Stokes is quite famous, and so many people have tattoos of her artwork that a book has been made of it. She has also had lots of products made by Nemeis Now (with whom I've started to have dealings.) I saw some of Anne Stokes' gothic design in a shop in Rothenburg in Bavaria during my German trip last year, a picturesque medieval town with a slightly creepy air, where it seems quite at home. That leads me neatly my sketch of the day, as it happens...

Where have all the flowers gone?

Another quickish study of 'Windflowers', a Waterhouse painting... Done in 1903, the original was, when the winds of change were blowing.

Dark Waters.

I fell in love with this photo and had to do a sketch based on it...