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Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Tuesday 12 July 2022

Phew! What a scorcher!


 'When it gets too hot for comfort

And you can't get an ice cream cone
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin
And dance around your bones'

Tom Waits

Tuesday 29 September 2020

The Sun Has Got Its Hat On!

Drawn during a spurt of late summer optimism a couple of weeks back when it felt like the summer had come back with a vengeance - feels rather bittersweet right now. I still love the sound of an ice cream van.
Here's the original sketchbook piece drawn on a beautiful September afternoon on a table outside The Nag's Head in Walthamstow, one of my local pubs. I feel like the cold beer & sunglasses rather add to the whole vibe!



 

Tuesday 23 May 2017

World Goth Day 2017

On #WorldGothDay please spare a thought for the unfortunate teenage goths on enforced family beach holidays.

Monday 22 August 2016

Monday 1 August 2016

Thursday 21 July 2016

Pigs in hot weather


I was rather delighted by a story in the paper about pigs being given ice lollies & having sun block rubbed into their ears during the recent hot weather.

Wednesday 20 July 2016

Goths in hot weather...

In this hot weather, think about the goths & maybe leave a saucer of cider & blackcurrant out?

Tuesday 26 August 2014

Happy (rainy) Monday!

Seemed apt today somehow, please come back summer!

Friday 9 August 2013

Holidays!

NB no crustaceans were harmed in the making of this picture (that sandcastle got well f***ed up though!)

Wednesday 3 July 2013

Being British illustrations - Woman's Weekly



 Illustrations to accompany comedian Hugh Dennis' article for Woman's Weekly on Being British including inability to choose correct outfits for weather, obsessions with gardens, pets & not turning your back on the Queen.
(shamefacedly I hadn't realised Woman's Weekly still existed & was immediately reminded of the line 'beat me on the bottom with my Woman's Weekly' from a song by Victoria Wood!)

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Cats & dogs

A (fighting) cat & dog rescued from a sketchbook left in a tent in a rainstorm - there is a moral here somewhere re. camping & illustration...probably. A memento of a particularly British summer.

Friday 10 August 2012

Skellington Ice Cream

this seemed appropriate today (again!) but you can't have too much Tom Waits can ya?

'When it gets too hot for comfort
And you can't get an ice cream cone
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin
And dance around your bones'

Tom Waits

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Not so smug™ now huh? (interesting fridge)

Was deliberating about how to make a a drawing of a fridge interesting & seemed appropriate on a day like this

Wednesday 28 July 2010

Festival odds & sods...






Seeing as I almost completely failed to take photos at any festivals this year so far I managed to do lots of drawing