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Staged watercolor exercise

Staged watercolor exercise

Just a brief dabble with the evil that is watercolour, and one immediately understands that taming it’s wild, watery ways will take a lifetime. However, I recently came to realise that without actually trying, I don’t stand a chance in a dozen lifetimes.
The latest project is a tutorial piece from David Bellamy’s Developing Your Watercolours. [...]

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Three new illustrations

Three new illustrations

It has been a while, but I finally got around to finishing the most recent illustration and scanning the previous two that have been sat in the Moleskine for a couple of months. Art seems to be low priority behind the book lately.

“Afternoon Off”

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New Drawing: Getting Ahead

New Drawing: Getting Ahead

On flickr and A Unique Space
Ink line on Moleskine.

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New drawing: Untitled1

see larger versions over at a unique space or flickr

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A place for my art at last

Finally, after great deliberation, dead ends, and false starts, I’ve created a place for my illustrations, drawings and other art to live:
aUniqueSpace.co.uk
The site has no preview thumbnails, it’s a ‘journey’ through various artworks - mostly those within my main Moleskine sketchbook. I have also added some text beneath each one. These texts may give you [...]

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New Drawing: Run, Bert, run like the wind!

Ink on Moleskine

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Chairs and Headskirts (new drawings)

It has been far too long since I posted any drawings, so today I managed to finally get around to scanning some previously completed pieces from the trusty Moleskine.
Click the images to pop over to flickr for larger versions

 
Head in a Skirt Checking for Rain - What can I say? I believe the title has [...]

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Persistent Spirit Prelude Episode released!

Persistent Spirit Prelude Episode released!

It has arrived!
The Prelude Episode of the first TableRappers book, Persistent Spirit, is now available for you to listen to and download.

You can listen to the episode right on tablerappers.com by clicking the triangular play button at the top of the right-hand column.
To be sure of getting the latest episodes as soon as they are released, use the RSS Feed to add TableRappers to your podcatching software, or iTunes to get it on your iPod.
Persistent Spirit Chapter One, will be released January 2008

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Cross browser and platform website testing

Testing your shiny new website across multiple browsers and multiple platforms for consistent design and layout can be tricky without a spare-room full of different machines and operating systems. Services such as Browsercam.com are superb, but a little on the expensive side if you are not a web developer pro.
Browsershots to the rescue! This is [...]

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NaNoWriMo on the BBC

Sitting in front of BBC Breakfast morning magazine programme this morning and up pops a short feature about Nanowrimo.
It was a rather trivial piece and would likely go unnoticed by most people, but it is good to know that what is a growing activity every November is gaining some attention from mainstream press - and [...]

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