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If you go down to the woods today…

May 15, 2012, 12:02 am
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You won’t find any bears, Not in the Congo anyway. but there are tracks through the forests in the Congo, Paths, well trodden though the trees. What forest dweller could be making these paths?.. Elephants. Yes that right. Forest dwelling elephants. Elephants in the Congo The Forest Elephants of the Congo are smaller than their [...]
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Pyrios – Solar Steed

May 23, 2012, 12:59 am
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3 Colour Screenprint of Pyrois In Greek mythology Helios drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day and returned to the East at night. His charoit was pulled by four horses, Pyrios, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon. They were all given appropriately fiery names. This print is Pyrois, he has images that represent [...]
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In the Congo – African Forest Elephant

May 24, 2012, 12:17 am
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The Congo Rainforest is the world’s second largest tropical forest, covering 700,000 square miles. It spreads across the basin of the Congo River and across six countries. So its big! Big enough to hide a brand new species? Well, up until recently it was always thought that the Forest Elephant was a smaller subspecies of [...]
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Greylag Geese Flying through a Thunderstorm

June 7, 2012, 11:41 pm
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This painting is going to be on a lampshade. This is just one part of the overall design. Very japanese! There are three panels altogether that will all join up. Lazy Geese! The geese are migratory, moving south or west in winter. The greylag is one of the last to migrate, and the “lag” portion [...]
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Nice pair of jocks!

June 25, 2012, 3:38 am
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This illustration was for Doctor Weaving’s Diary in Pulse Magazine. What a luxury it is to have the NHS. On a recent trip to the Himalayas in one of the last villages in indian before Tibet Doctor Weaving meets a shopkeeper who is scratching a living selling cigarettes and alike. The shopkeeper has a scrotal [...]
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What’s new pussy Cat?

June 27, 2012, 5:47 am
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At last 4 new cards are available at my shop, The forest Elephant, The mountain Gorilla, Cat licking it’s Paw and Ducks rising on a misty morning. You can see them all in progress, two wild Animals, the Mountian Gorilla and the Forest Elephnat. Some ducks in a repeat pattern and a Cat licking it’s [...]
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The DM Collection gets its own page!

July 4, 2012, 3:11 am
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My collection of cards and prints that I sell through my shop, The DM Collection now has its own facebook page. It has details of my retail activity. I started Selling my cards and prints last December at West Norwood Feast, It went really well and encouraged me to get a stall at Greenwich Market. [...]
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3 days inside a Whale

July 5, 2012, 3:03 am
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This is the start of a watercolour of a Whale I am working on. As you can see I want to maintain a simple shape with all the narrative inside the shape. Whales have been in stories and mythology stretching back into the mists of time. Perhaps the most famous is that of…. Jonah and [...]
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Cunning as fox

July 10, 2012, 1:05 am
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This is the first positive for a two colour screen print, it’s indian ink on clear film. I’ve not decided yet but it will be printed either red or blue. Throughout many cultures the fox is a symbol of cunning and trickery. Even the possessor of magic powers. The fox has come to represent intelligence [...]
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Whale Stories

July 23, 2012, 5:37 am
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This is the finished whale picture, as you can see, it’s probably one of my most graphic looking. I mentioned some stories in my earlier post about whales, Famously Jonah spent three days inside a whales belly after an argument with God. Sailors had trouble with mistaking whales for Islands and were shipwrecked as a [...]
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King of the Jungle!

July 26, 2012, 1:45 am
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Watercolour in progress of a Lion (Panthera leo) Lion, king of the jungle. Well not really as lions don’t live in the jungle, they live out on the African Savannah. Maybe it’s because lions are at the top of the food chain that they have become labeled with “king”. An interesting related fact is that [...]
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Chinese Whale Farm – Prospect Magazine

July 27, 2012, 12:35 am
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This illustration was for prospect Magazine. A brilliant short story by Xiang Zuotie. A dark, but witty satire on Modern China. It is called Rasing Whales and uses the whale as a metaphor for the growing chinese economy. A rural village slowly runs out of containers to house its growing whale farm. It is surreal [...]
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AOI Exhibition at Somerset House

July 31, 2012, 1:45 am
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This illustration which was commissioed by Men’s Style in Austraila was selected for Images 36. It has now also been choosen for the AOI touring Exhibition, Images 36: Best of British Illustration. It starts on 3rd October at Somerset House. see further details here. You can see the original illustration in progress in 3 stages [...]
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I am King (with Daddy issues) – Hesoid, Theogony/Works and Days

August 2, 2012, 3:44 am
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How to establish permanant control over the cosmos. If you have ever wondered how to do this then you need to read Hesoid’s, Theogony/Works and Days. It is about the birth of the Gods and the struggle for power. This is the cover I did for the book, which was commissioned by Canadian publisher, Talon [...]
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A King that shows Mercy?

August 9, 2012, 12:48 am
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Ancient Beast The oldest stories of lions date back to some 32,000 years ago, they are represented in cave paintings in the south of france. More Morden, well about 620 and 560 BC. Aesop, the greek slave and story-teller wrote a fable, The Lion and the Mouse, the lion learns that mercy brings its reward, [...]
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Blue Fox

August 23, 2012, 11:58 pm
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This is the finished limited edition screen print. You can see the progress in my earlier post. I decided to print UltraMarine and white on a yellowish Japanese paper called Atsukuchi paper, which is only 57gsm. Light but very strong. The print is 320mm x 485mm. I love the fables about foxes. This one is [...]
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Scent Hound

August 28, 2012, 10:40 pm
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Watercolour in progress of a scent hound. This one is an English Fox hound. How sensitive is your nose? The Scenthound breeds are generally regarded as having some of the most sensitive noses among canines. The theory goes that the long ears aid the wafting of sent into the scent hounds sensitive nose and their [...]
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Sleeping Fox Screen Print

September 3, 2012, 11:06 pm
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This is a 3 colour screen print printed on Japanese paper. Throughout history the fox has been associated with the good and the bad. In pre-Christian Times the fox was seen as a symbol of the god of vegetation or as a symbol of forest and mountain-spirits. This later changed and the fox was seen [...]
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How the Rooster got his ‘Cock-a-Doodle-doo’

September 5, 2012, 10:37 pm
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This watercolour in progress is sticking with my theme of animals in the natural habitat but with their natural habitat inside them, albeit stylised. ( the blobs on his tail is masking fluid) Why do roosters ‘Cock-a-Doodle-doo’ in the morning. The greek myth about Alectryon explains, naturally it involves an illicit affair and a tragedy! [...]
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It’s a Dogs Life!

September 13, 2012, 11:16 pm
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This water colour painting of a hound is now available at my Shop as a card or a print. You can see it in progress on my earlier post. According to research your personality type is reflected in the dog you own. Hound dogs tend to be owned by emotionally stable people. For example the [...]
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