I’ve realized I just cannot resist temptation to create a decent image of the non-sketchbook explorations. This cam experimenter called...

Absurd to make a to do list for a weekend when I’m away and then think I can make something happen. Particularly when the to do list...

Confronting the dreaded hands. Pages of drawing required so I can move to the watercolor drawing with fluid, instinctive lines and...

My head is dangerously full of 3D movements options; gears, cams, sprockets and belts. I am unable to think about anything else which is...

It’s funny how ideas evolve. This blog series for example: I had no real Idea of what was going to happen, what I was going to post, but...

Running apace now on multiple fronts. Still messing for the shadow puppets, starting to assemble the actual puppet and busy drawing specs...

Exploration is aways a challenge on busy days, but I have a serious deadline to meet at the end of the next week which isn’t disappearing...

The entire day was almost a #dailyfail after falling back to sleep when I should have been up and about. Creativity was hampered by...

An extremely satisfying set of fails today which is encouraging for resolving this piece over the next few days. Inspired by a workshop I...

Woke in a panic this morning. Too many deadlines approaching, and I need to move up a few gears. So instead of rushing into the studio, I...

I’m becoming a bit more relaxed each day posting the normally hidden pages of my sketchbook and related messings. Working in a open plan...

A reflective weekend. In pursuit of Slowness. 24 hours away from all online activity, allowing focussed concentrated reading and note...

Sculpting and exploring puppetry is pretty forgiving in terms of outcome. Almost anything looks quirky/interesting/funny. But the outcome...

The best type of glorious failure today. I have been playing around with surfaces for making shadow puppets, and had read that Ivory...

Playing around with puppet ideas, it occurs to me that it is very enjoyable to scribble without worrying about result. I read an article...

First day back in the studio today. A ton of work to do, loads of new collaborative projects to occupy me, but all I could think about...

Notice I’ve ensured over the last few days that the sketchbook itself is visible. I realise it’s important in the great scheme of things...

Playing around, there’s nothing more fun than just seeing something upside down or back to front and a whole new image appearing. Still...

It’s slowly crystallising what this #dailyfail challenge is all about. Maybe it’ll carry on crystallising till 31st December. And beyond....