Changes in my store

If you hadn't read the news on my other blog, then my Etsy store is reopened with a difference! Hurray!

From now on i'm primarily selling download-able, print-your-own toys through there. And my prints are sold via my Society6 store.


As a celebration of this change of direction, i'm offering Mr Mystical Cowboy for free. Just click this link

All you need to construct him is some small scissors (or a scalpel), a few small brads and either a small hole punch or be very patient with your small scissors!

The jumping jacks in my shop are packaged with instructions, I just haven't got round to it with this fella.

New Year, New Post

A very happy 2010 to you all - A New Years Post is over here on the new blog.

New Prints

I've now opened a Society 6 store to deal with prints which I cannot manage myself.
The first 2 prints are Fox Confessor and The Flora and Fauna of Intoxication.

The store is here.
Details on why, and various ephemera are now given on my new blog.

Unusual gift

I had previously forgotten all about the fact that I said i'd copy posts from my new blog to this one...I said it, and it was recorded publicly and then I didn't bother...Fairly typical then.

I remembered tonight, so here's a link to the post about the very unusual gift I was given

A couple a' things

Well first of all i've been a busy wee bee. I've redesigned my website and blog and relocated the whole shebang over here: http://www.littlerobot.org.uk/

The new blog is powered by typepad and makes my life a lot easier. You can go directly over there by clicking here. Go check it out, I have posted a new painting!

I will keep posting here and redirecting your kind attentions there for a while :)

Better Image

I managed to piecemeal scan in the fox today. My scanner is really annoyingly doing a faint red line across everything now - so I have just bought a new one. Hopefully to arrive in the next few days. Thank goodness, so sick of cloning that line out.

If you click the image you'll get to see a much larger version.

It's called 'The fox confessor', after the Neko Case song. I was only just introduced to her by a good freind and am now obsessively smitten. She happens to be playing in Glasgow in September, and I may have to go.

The painting was made under the influence of her and also Kate Bush's 'Aerial' album (Also from the same freind - I scoffed when they said it was her best album, how wrong was I?)

And relax

This is pretty much finished apart from the usual set of glazes which go over the top - deepening shadows, bringing out highlights etc. But before I do that the varnish needs to dry. And while that's happening, i'll put the undercoat down for another one and go for a walk.

It's sunny out, i'm thinking i'll make the dinner tonight, something proper. Here's some shots. Taken in daylight but i'm still not happy with them, the camera seems to oversaturate everything. I may need a new one. But you can get the general impression.





there's a little glare from the varnish which makes the shadows seem a bit washy...

I'm going to try, somehow to get a scan. I'm not sure how. In any case I am very happy with the direction it's going in.

RE: Comments in last post - *Apparently* our summer is coming back in August? I heard a weather lady say it....It's got a few days left then ;)