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A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.

Shiny distractions

AI is a quantum fuzzy logic buzzword, or at least an interesting toy to generate new monsters. Experiments with DALL-E

ai, ai art, DALL-E, spider, spiderwoman

Walk on a Beach

Dramatic clouds over orange tinted hills, dark sand and the sea. 720nm IR filter

fish, ocean, sea, seascape, skeleton, wairarapa

Not pretty

Crosshatched ink sketches of a tapeworm and a dog-scorpion

fantasy, fineliner, ink, scorpion, scorpion dog, tapeworm
human wasp hybrid trapped by a plant

Waspish

Crosshatched ink sketch of a wasp lady trapped on a vine

fantasy, fineliner, ink, wasp

Lights in the sky!

Aurora lights over Lake Wairarapa

astrophotography, aurora, wairarapa
ink crosshatched drawing of legs vanishing into inkwell

Quink Dip – More cross hatching

I’ve been metaphorically and illustratively diving into ink this week, playing with ways to energise background textures. I liked this … More

crosshatched, crosshatching, ink
ink crosshatched drawing of a girl arched back

Streeetching drawing styles a little

I stipple, I scumble, but one thing I don’t do, I’ve never done with ink … cross hatching. I love … More

cross-hatching, ink

Quick quick sketching

The portrait group I sometimes draw with didn’t have a model this week, so we all took turns posing for … More

sketching

Way to spend a week

A glorious week of nothing but sculpting

clay

Don’t be allamaed (and all the other puns)

I am, no question, living the fantasy life for a middle-aged middle-class New Zealander. I have now swapped my adorable … More

alpaca

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  • Tiny sketch-booking? August 27, 2025
  • Crafting a Unique Devil Mask: using Papier Mache from recycled books November 23, 2024
  • 11 May 2024, let’s just say ooooOOo together May 12, 2024
  • Building a buggy sketchbook habit March 12, 2024
  • Just drawing people March 1, 2024
  • October? Draw every day? Uh, sure, maybe! October 9, 2023
  • Come Hawk* June 17, 2023
  • April is for … Aurora? April 25, 2023
  • AI for the birds February 9, 2023
  • AI, death and people with bees January 29, 2023

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