These pictures are very often...

...my imaginitave attempt to show faces as i sometimes picture them. They appear to be in two halves! I don't know if you have ever tried to blank out the top half of a face and pictured someone else's top half in its place, but i do it all the time. My face isn't a good example, its not big enough i think(!) There are some faces that are really good for this, not saying who though, even if they are celebs. These are just experiments that i leave alone. Its the same with all the folds in the drawing paper that exist in my pics that i sometimes erase...i like to call these my 'Zips' and of course nothing i ever produce can have a sheen or look new, that would be wayyyyyy too pro-like. so if its a really grubby piece of tatty old paper and not entirely in one piece then its probably my latest offering. I'm really getting into horrible looking stuff being attractive, i haven't worked out if it just applies to my stuff yet, i'll have to check out more galleries for that. I think this is all part of my recyclable life that has got weirder. I even recycle the drawings after i finish em, i'm doing various versions of the same gimp faces, i've probably recycled this wordy nonsense from a previous blog too. Ah well.

i seem to have started the year...

...with a serious lack of patience and a foul mood to back it up! It might be Seasonal Affective Disorder, or the cold weather or the number of people who seem to be rushing everywhere, who's way i seem to be in! Not many people spend time being polite any more, all the rushing tends to make any spark of politeness evaporate. I'm sure i'm guilty of this as well...i am trying to address it, but sometimes the haze takes over. That is why i try not to get into these hazy situations. I'm going to start afresh, again, tomorrow...we'll see how long it lasts, i need some form of reminder to keep me cool i think. Mmmmm, More thinking to be doing. At least the snow has left, that's given me a thought! Lots more pictures finished, but not many/any pretty ones though. :P

its even more dangerous out there now...

beware of people who smile too much, they are not what they seem and are not to be trusted! Don't fall in to the trap, it'll be hard to escape from...I learned the daft way!

no more wet weather please...

i don't do umbrellas, not that it would be much use in this deluge! All the fallen leaves have gone, now its just buckets of rain. I'm sure i can avoid the wetness if i plan it right. No real inspiration with the pictures these days, but i have just thought of something, so i'll try and do that later...its an old idea.
For a laugh, go to google and type a silly statement and see what pics it comes up with, i just tried 'sandwich face' and got a picture of an ugly piglet! Bored of that now! Ho, hum.

its getting colourful inside...

...outside its just gloomy. I like it when its dismal, i'm not just talking about weather either. I've got a bit of a throat pain thing going on at the moment, i may be losing my voice that would be nice for a bit! My drawings seem to be coming out as twins, no reason really, maybe to fill the page a bit more, or to make the figures look less isolated. Look at all this colour too, i'm trying to stick to the gloom of black and white but the pinks and greens are slipping through. How secure is myspace? How sensible are their security measures? How bloody difficult is it to log on if you have a really old email address and useless password? Don't ask, it has been a mini nightmare, and usually bobbins like this doesn't get me worked up, ooh, but it was an annoying weekend! Hope this one is a lot better...i think we know why. Keep smiling...somebody has to!

quite a lot of things have been going on...

...since last time i posted, but there is one constant, headaches, its very annoying and painful! Oh, i've been drawing a lot too. I'll probably add them later, when my head clears, it doesn't seem to be clearing soon, i'm going to sleep it off, hopefully. More later.

its taking much longer to recover from...

...illness, over-indulgence, physical exertions, even just sitting or standing still in the same place for more than five minutes! My joints seem to seize up after any short time of idleness; knees, knuckles, shoulders. I don't think i can blame the weather, i put it down to the effects of insomnia. Yeah, i think its lack of a sound night's sleep, even though i can sleep a little longer each night, more than i used to. God forbid, that i try to play any sport! Running for buses is tough enough, so no, i won't be doing a marathon either...marathon drawing maybe! I think the answer is to get more active, works for the brain i suppose. We'll see :P

getting dizzy making patterns...

...this is not helping my eyesight at all! They are also taking ages to do, but i've got tons more of em waiting to be finished. I might try and make my own wallpaper that would truly drive me insane i think, not just the putting together of the images, but then having to look at it on a wall! I'm now getting a headache, yawn, its bedtime!:)

starting to draw again...

...i managed to scribble these things this week. My head is not in the usual place these days(no jokes please!) so i'm feeling very distracted and less creative. I'll be doing more doodles as per usual, but i'll be trying to make em neater and cleaner, not sure it'll work for me as i tend to treat all pieces of paper grubbily! My printer is up the spout, but its producing some weird effects when i print stuff, think i'm going to go through a lot of ink, so hopefully i'll be able to manage the strange outpourings from the machine...i really do hate to waste paper, not to mention ink! You do know the inky stuff is more expensive than gold, don't you?

i thought i'd lost my drawings...

...but, luckily after some searching, i found em. Phew! I've not been able to do much sketching this week due to one thing or another, but i'm going to try and get back to it this week sometime. Either the pen, or the paints. I've been meaning to get around to painting things, but of course i get sidetracked by other ideas that i feel are important, like writing a thousand words or walking ten thousand steps in a week. I'm going to try to do it. How hard can it be? I need one of those clicky counter things. I tried counting my steps to myself, but i had to keep starting over because of interruptions and distractions, my poor memory adds to the nightmare. I think i'm going to 'Get back to black' with my picture stuff, i'm not sure that i want to continue with colour, not so sure that it enhances or compliments them, so i'll give it a rest for a while...prepare for darkness and gloom!

confusion is overtaking...

...i am completely lost! I haven't got a clue what i'm doing, and its getting worse, rapidly. I'm hoping the situation takes a turn for the better, i think it may be around the corner, but i have been wrong many, many, times before. I'm still churning out the pics though, i'll call it the confusion phase i think. Its sunny!

tiredness is becoming annoying...

my weekend hasn't been great, but there is always tomorrow to look forward to, i can kind of guess what'll be happening, i think its called being knackered! I could try and complete another drawing, to try and keep myself half awake i suppose, we'll see what happens. These are my latest creations, and none of them are portraits. I don't think i'll ever be a portrait artist, i would never be flattering, i tend to squeeze out some kind of unhealthy aspect to a person, a menacing grin or large nostrils or excessive hair, its just something i feel i need to do...its got to have some form of uglyness attached to it. That really makes my day. No, i won't apologise! :)

when you get older your body begins to fall apart...

...the artist R B Kitaj once said that, and it is SO true. I don't feel too bad myself, but today i've witnessed what other people have to put up with and it is very scary. I suppose the last few weeks have been a real eye opener, but then again, all this was evident from many years ago, its just that now its all much more worrying. I should be thinking about something else.

where is it coming from...

...tell me.

if its not one thing...

...its another! They are digging up the roads and halting transport services...its all really beginning to interfere with my schedule! The roads are very busy too and the hot weather doesn't lessen the stress levels either. I'm loving it though! I'm taking things slowly, it seems the most sensible way to go. Being sensible is hard to focus on, when you spend most of your life being a joker, i'll give it a good try though! I think i'm going to really start painting soon and also attempt some wallpaper pictures, that should drag me back in to the realms of foolishness. Ha, ha. We want rain and lightning and thunder, yes we do!. :)

the names on...

the little tabs on these pics are old familiar streets i used to knockabout on years ago. Some of them don't exist anymore and others have completely transformed, some would say; for the better! This weather is nice, six or seven days of sunny blue sky and the occasional afternoon of rain, i like it a lot. Have got painting to do today, and i want to make these sketchy things more sketchy! Less colour, more whiteness and maybe charcoal or pencil. This is a note to self!

Isn't there a law...

...that can stop the bnp gimps from getting into Manchester town hall? I saw it on tv last night it was horrific. It looked like all the decent people exited the building and refused to acknowledge the outcome. It was a terrible result but these evil people will never prosper. I was a bit disturbed by all the scare-mongering stories of doom before the vote, because the likelyhood of these wretches gaining a foothold in politics is very slim, so i was never worried. After seeing this bilge on tv though, my stomach feels sick. I half expected all this; the far right anger vote, it happens a lot, especially during testing economic times. These morons always seem to get a bit of exposure as a result of public apathy/annoyance, let's hope it stops there. It looks like the sale of rotten eggs will sky-rocket in anticipation of further public appearances by this lot, think i'm going to join the queue for eggs!

being forgetful is easy...

...remembering is the hard bit! I've not been too bad lately though, nothing of major importance has cropped up, so there was nothing i had to think about. I seem to be doing 'spots' a lot more lately, makes a change from seeing them before my eyes in real life i s'pose. Think i need to draw for a bit, i'm lost for words at the moment with no inspiration, the brain needs oiling. More later...

i think i saw the person...

...who pinched my drawings a while back, but what can i do? I can't demand them back, i need proof of the act. Never mind. Well it looks like the politicians in this country have really gone and annoyed us far too much now. Its very funny seeing them try to squirm out of their positions and almost everybody is apologising, The world has truly gone mad. Its going to be a difficult one for people to decide who to vote for now, maybe we'll all just stay at home that day and refuse to vote. It could backfire and the complete undesirables might gain a few seats. That would be horribly catastrophic. I will vote, have to deal with my conscience...its going to be very interesting.

Happy Mothers Day...again!

Can't hang about here, just thought i'd post the picture, its the only paper thing other than doodles that i've done this weekend. I've been on the pc to long, but i've had time to do some painting as well. Its all really messy and weird in a menacing kind of way, the painting i mean. Its given me a plan for future stuff, but as usual if it materialises that'd be great, but usually it doesn't. Happy Mum's day everybody.