Tomb Raider

One pleasure of working digitally is the endless ability to tweak or completely change your images, without affecting the original…

The bronze swimmers – non toxic patina-ing

The 3 bronze swimmer masks have now had all their odd casting artefacts dremelled way, been sandblasted, and finally last…

I spent yesterday at the zoo, collecting reference materials for future work. And, enjoying a walk in the sunshine. I…

More faces using Adobe Illustrator and the digital tablet. I’m now feeling sufficiently confident managing groups of objects and layers…

Next in the ‘universal’ emotions set, anger. It was oddly difficult to find non-fake/cartoony reference images of anger, particularly of…

As part of my ‘mask’ background research, I’ve been reading about facial expressions and how we express and recognise emotion.…

Work is play, at least when I’m doing a posters for a comedy show. Play is work too of course.…

I’ve just spent a fine week in a printmaking course – working into aluminium plates variously protected from and exposed…

The ‘doctor’ bird mask follows the shape worn by plague doctors in medieval Europe, and the Commedia dell’Arte stock character…

I spent time this morning creating a quick and dirty one page advert to go in the Drawfest Annual, an…