Tag: skull

Things I did today: 

Dug up a dead fox; cycled to the most depressing supermarket in the world, bought a baffling colouring book; fed Bear Cub the stray; finally got around to cleaning behind the cacti; got stabbed in the eye by an aloe vera; found three very dead moths, one butterfly and a megaspider. I don’t know what the Latin name for this species is, as in my experience its entire geographical range is localised solely within this house, but I can tell you that it’s unusually large for this country/climate/side-of-the-thin-veil-separating-this-reality-from-a-nightmarish-Lovecraftian-netherworld-of-monsters.  

I found a tiny bird skull and tried to draw it a couple of times. Then I drew it to scale. Then I drew another different kind of bird skull next to it. Then I realised that did precisely nothing to actually convey a sense of the size of the thing so I drew my weird lumpy hand.

Then I drew a little fly that was hanging around being creepy, repeatedly landing on my fingertips and in my paintbox and then inexplicably falling over and pretending to drown in my watercolours. Had to fish it out with my paintbrush three times. If it turns out it’s actually a person who’s fallen victim to some scientific experiment gone awry, like in Honey I Shrunk The Kids, I’m sorry but they should really try and get someone else’s attention because I don’t even answer the phone. 

Pencil & watercolour on paper. (2013)

SO. hello. 

Since the move, I have been really, really unfocused. I have no idea what I’m doing. It’s…fine, actually. It’s great. I am not worrying about the future, or dwelling on things that don’t matter, or making any plans whatsoever beyond the level of “maybe I will buy a nice pencil today”. My sleep patterns are all over the place, I am probably drinking too much and I think I have forgotten how to read but that is okay. For now. 

Since my attention span is shot, I am not committing to any large-scale or long-term painting projects just now. Instead, in the spirit of spontaneity, I’ve been messing about with low-fi, quick & dirty, one-off print techniques – monoprint/monotype, frottage, collagraph, and what-have-you.

Untitled prints, water-based ink on various papers.