Eventide, Good, Falling Quickly.

Berwick Bay, Late Evening. Oil on board, 91cm x 61cm.

Last year we had a long look around the Symbolist Landscape exhibition in Edinburgh, which was uniformly brilliant. There were so many atmospheric evening and twilight paintings, particularly Riddarfjarden by Eugene Janssen, which I was mesmerised by. Two paintings came out of this, of which this was the second and the more problematic. Took me a long time to get it to the point I was reasonably happy with it.

What's Black and White and Rusty All Over?

Avery Hardoll BP Super. Oil on canvas.

Bauxite No.2, Composition in Black, Red and Yellow. Oil on canvas.

Thieves.

Mixed feelings. It was a nice idea, and I quite like the colouring (the idea of it anyway) but I think yet again I've kind of failed to ignore the feeling I 'should' be drawing in a certain way. It could be that when it comes to comic work that I just don't particularly know what my style is.

The Dog is Salty But the Fish is Freshwater.

Had some time to draw today for the first time in about two an a half weeks.

Another in the 'Salty Dog' series.

Bob Brozman, guitarist, ethnomusicologist, big-hearted and restless curious human being, died on 24th April.  He was only 59; but in that time he went around the world, played his guitar, recorded his music and released it to the public. And I got to see him live in concert. For that I am very grateful.

Thanks, Bob.

Ozzy

The first page of an illustrated version of Shelley's Ozymandias. Full 6-page adaptation of the full poem can be found here.

Barking

Blue Birchbark, and companion piece Red Birchbark, now at the Found Gallery, Dunbar.