Category Archives: Writing

Not So Messy

A friend of mine once said ‘The good thing about sculpting in clay is that you can stop at almost any point and the model can still be interesting’. A great observation, I thought. But I wondered whether it was … More

Monkey Men and what we’ve forgotten

One of the better things I heard last year came from a TV program that in every other respect was a bit rubbish. It was a series called ‘Walking with Humans’ and dealt with the evolution of man. My son loves monkeys, he especially loves people dressed up as monkeys and since this program was filled with actors in monkey suits jumping about, hollering and picking nits of each other it was a non-negotiable TV commitment for us all! More

Explosion with rabbit: some thoughts on naming

One of the many differences between digital drawing and traditional drawing is that you have to name the work you make on the computer. You have to name all of it! And I’m not sure that this is the trivial … More