Month

Yay, it's officially out today: the first full length album by the wonderful Miss Maud's Folly! With artwork by yours truly. Available physically from the band's website and digitally via iTunes...

I've had a few requests for prints of these birds I did in ink and Ecoline, and now I got some beautiful giclée prints made. They're printed on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle German Etching paper, which has a fine texture, like watercolour paper...

I really enjoyed listening to Grayson Perry's series of lectures on art for BBC Radio 4 (listen or download these Reith Lectures here). In one episode he mentioned he like's drawing in front of the television while watching crap programs...

It's been far too long since I've organized a Pub Carpet Crawl. Though the last two London crawls were loads of fun, they were not very successful in terms of carpet-count, so I think I had been demotivated a bit by this... But a feature in the December issue of KLM's inflight magazine Holland Herald (yes yes!!!) should be celebrated with another crawl!!

Doodlers Anonymous is a really fun website about ehm well doodling and people who love to doodle. There are interviews, showcases and they've published two colouring books. Recently there was a call for doodlers to submit work for colouring book vol. 3 and here is my entry! It's based on drawings I initially made for a pattern called The Garbage Thief, inspired by William Morris' The Strawberry Thief...