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I got completely absorbed in making this Blog nearly twenty years ago. It was full of paintings, writing, charcoal drawings and small animations. Then life took over. Finding it again and beginning it again has made me feel unexpectedly young and excited.

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I kept this blog for three months while I was living above The Clayton Arms in Peckham, London. I have moved out of there now and will start another website as soon as I can. Feel free to browse through December, January, February, March and the shop is still

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Giant fish

This is a doodle of a joke my mate Dave told me years ago. I won't write it all but it ends with the bloke wrestling the fish into the fish and chip shop and asking for a fish cake. The man behind the counter asks why he wants a fishcake when he already had a

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Kenny's dog

Kenny lives up in the North East but he drinks in the Clayton Arms when he is in London for work. This is his dog. It's a Shitsu it's the only one of it's kind in Britain. He wanted me to draw it for his daughter. Charcoal on paper

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Kenny's dog

Kenny lives up in the North East but he drinks in the Clayton Arms when he is in London for work. This is his dog. It's a Shitsu it's the only one of it's kind in Britain. He wanted me to draw it for his daughter. Charcoal on paper

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436

I sketched this guy while I was on the 436 bendy bus that goes past The Clayton Arms. It goes all the way from Lewisham to Paddington. The guy I sketched held his head high even when he realised I was drawing him. He was well turned out with a flat cap and a d

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Stranded!

Charcoal on paper animated. This animation is looped the beginning is when you see " lads wake up…" You need to watch from start to finish to appreciate it really.

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Taste bud monitor.

Oil on canvas 8 “x10 “(25.4cm x 20.32cm) This is the guy in your brain that monitors your taste buds when you eat. The guages on the left monitor your 'yum' levels, these are the sensations caused by nice food.The buttons on this half of the panel, cause you t

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Monkey Chef

Oil on canvas 8 "x10 "(25.4cm x 20.32cm) Nigel is one of 2 finalists out of thousands of applicants and if he completes this challenge could be the owner of his own London restaurant with all expenses paid for a year. Celebrity host:OK Nigel how much do you wa

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How to impress a hot date.

Oil on canvas 8 "x10 "(25.4cm x 20.32cm) Nigel is one of 2 finalists out of thousands of applicants and if he completes this challenge could be the owner of his own London restaurant with all expenses paid for a year. Celebrity host:OK Nigel how much do you wa

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GCSE dog building lesson.

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ (25.4cm x 20.32cm) Sir Richard Dykes, rector of Inferial College London, is among the scientists to attack the core qualification, in which pupils build real life dogs. He warned a "dumbed down syllabus" may stop those who did not study ch

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Fire Men

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ (25.4cm x 20.32cm) This painting is done from a picture of two men walking past a gas flare in nigeria. I changed the gas flare into a flaming man in the sky because I thought it would look nice. The article I got the photo from is about h

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Good Fences make good neighbours

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ (25.4cm x 20.32cm) Good fences make neighbours because every body knows where they stand and it prevents lots of unnecessary disputes. A really good fence in a lot of ways is even better than having neighbours. Some fences will smile at yo

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Warbirds

Oil on canvas 8″x10″(25.4cm x 20.32cm) A fresh British force with extra fire power is to be sent to Afghanistan. They will be supplied with extra armoured genetically modified birds of prey , that will deploy the troops and watch over them from the sky. All th

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Eye Spy

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ (25.4cm x 20.32cm) I think I've got someone in my eye. You may not like my paintings now but I've got my little guys working 24-7 on the way you see and pretty soon you will love all of them.

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Morph Goes Bad

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ (25.4cm x 20.32cm) Police are appealing to the public for any information regarding a very small terracotta man with black gloves and a balaclaver holding a large shot gun and dragging a large sports bag full of stolen cash behind him. Chi

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New Deal

Charcoal on Paper. <!-- I haven't managed to do a painting for today because I had to go to the Job Centre to sort some things out. I managed to do a couple of quick sketches whilst waiting to see an adviser. I could do another whole website about the characte

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Rising Obesity

Painting. Oil on canvas. 10″x8″. (25.4cm x 20.32cm) I was going to paint loads of really over weight people packed onto these escalator like a big fat demonstration, but then I thought it would be more fitting in with the theme if I decided that I couldn't be

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Jump !

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ (25.4cm x 20.32cm) If you jump from an aeroplane the maximum speed you will achieve is up to about 220-235 MPH, in about 20 seconds of freefall. This would need to be done at about 6000m altitude so that the diver can then slow down to 120

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Shark teeth

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ "The teeth of sharks are not attached to the jaw, but embedded in the flesh, and in many species are constantly replaced throughout the shark's life. All sharks have multiple rows of teeth along the edges of their upper and lower jaws. New

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Tooth Tattoo

Oil on canvas 8″x10″. I was wondering what sort of things people would tattoo on their teeth if it was possible. I would have "I want a chocolate cookie NOW" written on mine. Or maybe I would have "I'm sad" just to confuse people when I am happy and smiling. H

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Shopping centre is busy.

I saw this guy standing talking to the sales man at the BT broadband stand in the shopping centre. He had a keen ear for what was being said. Perhaps he's fed up with being on the phone complaining about his package with another service provider or perhaps he

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Shower Gel

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ Yeah I didn't really think this one through too much as I thought it might spoil my fun. You know how they say your body is 70% water(is it more ?) and the water in your body completely replaces itself after 6 weeks? Well when I painted th

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Chief Albatross

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ Warning: This passage contains some excruciatingly painful puns. Craig Tangley, the chief executive of camera retailer Jessys, became the latest director to quit the struggling company after releasing a video of himself on You Tube reveali

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Durga

This is Durga a Hindu Goddess. I apologise if I have not painted the right number of arms.(I read somewhere she has 10). A well as being the wife of Shiva and raising four kids (Karttikeya, Ganesh, Saraswati, and Lakshmi) she also had a stunning career slaying

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Durga's Distant Cousin

This is not Durga the Hindu Goddess it is a Goddess that I made up but I really do like Durga a lot. A well as being the wife of Shiva and raising four kids (Karttikeya, Ganesh, Saraswati, and Lakshmi) Durga also had a stunning career slaying demons, and that

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Aggi Aye-Aye.

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″. This is a hybrid of Philip Aggee the late former CIA agent and the new aye-aye born in Bristol zoo. Philip Agee and the aye-aye have something in common in that they both have been persecuted. Philip Agee had to leave his native USA as

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Elf Keeper

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ Infosists, the giant Indian outsourcing firm is now innovating a scheme that will mean call centres being run by elves. Infosists have spent $1 billion dollars this year recruiting elves from Eastern Europe, Mexico and China to study in

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Belly Header

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″. <!--When I was a kid if you had tatoo's on your arm it meant on thing and one thing only. It mean that there was a fair to reasonable chance that you are quite hard and its probably best not to mess with you as you spend a lot of time s

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Wind Tunnel

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ It has been a tough few years for long haul airlines, with ongoing chaos at Heathrow, the delay over the launch of the new A380 Airbus, and last but not least climate change protests. Soon all this could change with the development of a

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Telerugby

Oil on canvas 8″x10″ "The growth in the mobile phone industry in the last 10 years has been very dramatic. There has been a steady development in technology, which we find crammed into our mobiles. However, in a bid to combat the recent slump in mobile sales,

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Mighty Mink Man

Oil on canvas. 8″x10″. A few months ago nearly 17,000 minks escaped captivity from a mink farm in Stendal, Germany, located 55 miles west of Berlin. The furry insurgence was co-ordinated by the mighty mink man(now in hiding). They headed for the woods. Mighty

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Auntie Shirley's Safari

Simon Green and me made THIS ANIMATION a couple of years ago when we were trying to get on that Rolph Harris' celebrity portraits T.V. program. It's only 30 seconds long but we worked round the clock on it for about 2 or 3 days. We wrote a really groveling let

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Auntie Shirley's Safari

Simon Green and me made THIS ANIMATION a couple of years ago when we were trying to get on that Rolf Harris celebrity portraits T.V. program. It's only 30 seconds long but we worked round the clock on it for about 2 or 3 days. We wrote a really grovelling lett

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Young Meet

This painting is based on two separate photos from two separate articles. One was about two young men that were hung for being gay in Iran. The other was a about Beef cattle being slaughtered as calves before they have had a chance to have a life. I did it bec

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Dinner Digger

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10 " I've got a book full of interviews with some old miners in South Yorkshire talking about their lives down the pit. Its a really good read and there is a CD to go with it aswell. Ill get the exact title and post it here sometime. There w

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Dentistski

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″. People will get excited about the thought of sliding down a mountain at 60 mph or jumping out of an aeroplane at 3000 metres. Yet it is a fact that the very same species that coil up in dread at the thought of visiting the dentist. Are

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Mr Potato Dead

Oil on canvas 10″x 8″ I read this article from 15th December 2007 about how there does'nt seem to be many soldiers on the streets but they stay in control by creating an atmosphere of fear where everyone is convinced they are being spied on everywhere they go

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Husky Shoes

Oil on canvas. 8″x10″. I gave this Husky Human shoes and hands because I thought it might look interesting. If you are looking for an exotic new pastime, I got this picture from an article on UK Husky sledding in UK. Its looks really good. if i had more money

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Save me the last dance

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ The title of the painting is taken from the song title "Save the Last Dance for Me" . The song is by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It first recorded in 1960 by Ben E. King and The Drifters, who took it to #1 on the U.S. pop charts, the grou

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Stethoscope Girl

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ There is a bit of a movie theme going on with this one. The image of the girl in the swim suit is done with reference to a film still from Atonement, staring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. The film is adapted from the Ian McEwan novel

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Hylonme the Dinner Lady

Oil on canvas 8″x10″. I like the title 'dinner lady' because it implies that she is a lady and that she has an undefined role in the ritual we call dinner. She could be assisting during dinner, eating dinner or even be eaten for dinner. I found a really good l

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Great Gran Gunner

Oil on canvas 8″x10″. There was this article in the South London Press with a photo of some pensioners looking really pissed of and angry. There was a bus stop near their houses where a lot of buses changed drivers. Of course bus drivers who get of a bus who h

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The flying horse man.

Oil on canvas 8″x10″. We all have a carbon foot print, but this man has a carbon hoof mark aswell. I was quite pleased with the way I got the reflected light on the bottom side of the aeroplane by removing paint and exposing the blank primed canvas.

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Bird Handler

Oil on canvas 8″x 10″. This painting is inspired by a picture of an organic fisherman . It was in an article talking about how because of the trend for organic food he now can look forward to being able to make as a good a living as his father and grandfather

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