Vintage Seaside

    'Vintage Seaside' pencil on vintage cotton

Girls in Galoshes

     'Girls in Galoshes' - Pencil on board and linen

Shark Doodles

I've been doing some design work for my lovely fiance this weekend, and it involves drawing sharks. Lots and lots of sharks... [insert menacing 'Jaws' shark music here].

A Portrait of my Great Great Grandfather

Love in the Funniest Places

While wandering back to the office yesterday after getting some lunch, I found myself walking behind a man who had unsuspectingly sat on a piece of red thread, and it was stuck to his bum forming the shape of a heart. It looked something like this. Unfortunate for him, quite possibly. Highly amusing for myself? Most definitely.

One from the Moleskine - Bunnies on the Brain

Draw What You See, Not What You Know

                            'Legs in bath, taps in reflection'

Many years ago, aged 8, while struggling to draw a paua shell, my art teacher said, 'Draw what you see, not what you know.' So yesterday, in the bath, I did just that.

Janine Wareham Illustration

How much fun is this doodle slash piece of amazing artwork? It's kinda like all those times when you were supposed to be listening to the teacher back in school but you just ended up doodling all up the side of your refill, only, this is SO much better. Nice! Janine Wareham, catch her here.

Boing Boing Weeee

Another Poppet

Note: This fella was not intended to look like Hitler, as C pointed out to me...

Doodling Houses

A quiet, old avenue from somewhere in my mind...

Two Poppets on a Page

When I started drawing this pair they were going to be two French poppets, but the boy looks decidedly British if you ask me (minus the baguette)... never mind, we're a multi-cultural bunch these days anyway!

It's funny, because the more I look at it the more I think this chap is based on my Grandad - he's a splitting image just a little younger obviously... but they even have the same knobbly knees! There's mischief written on that face, which is very appropriate indeed.

Random Doodle of the Week

These are my feet. On my desk. At work - i.e. not working.

I have strange feet, they are a size 9, and they have squat, unformed toes. My pinky toes curl under at each side. I had both my big toe nails cut out on all sides when I was a teenager, as they were forever ingrown. One worked, one didn't, so now I just cut it out myself. Ouch!

A couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with Graves Disease. Subsequently my right foot swells so badly I had to buy new shoes. What a shame. But that's why I've hidden it under my left foot in this doodle.

This excercise has also shown me that I desperately need to re-paint my toe nails.

Bugger. Just gonna have to go out and buy some nail polish now too. Oh well!

A Widdle Wabbit

Well my man is away in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia, building houses for aboriginal communities out there in the great red, dusty desert! He's gone for at least 8 weeks (yikes! The things we do for money!) so I am trying to find things to keep myself occupied.

An opportunity came up to work Saturdays at my old workplace so I grabbed it, and when there are no customers in the showroom I've been given permission to 'muck about', so here's a widdle muck-about wabbit I just doodled.