Paper, Pictures, Automata & other fanciful things

Just a wee note - i've put some things into my Etsy shop which I haven't done for ages. There's a suede Elizabethan inspired collar and some brooches of varying price. I'm hoping to do this a...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-things.html

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. An...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2010/02/changes-in-my-store.html

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

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-year-new-post.html

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 o...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-prints.html

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 ...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/10/unusual-gift.html

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 ...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/08/couple-things.html

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 d...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/07/better-image.html

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 th...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/07/and-relax.html

Seems like it’s been a long time since I last posted. I’ve been off work for 2 weeks mainly for the purpose of producing some work. Actually, I was meant to finish some work, but that’s not...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-one-up.html

The painting is getting better - layers of oil - lovely. Another drawing.

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/06/covered-in-carbon.html

I'm not sure why I always take premature, badly lit photos of what i'm working on - I should probably just wait till i'm finished, but i'm a blabber mouth. I like rabbiting on and constant analys...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/06/sneak-peek.html

Another drawing. This a more detailed part of the very large painting I have on-hold just now...She is one of the people riding their animals through the forest...I realised part way through that...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/06/bit-more.html

Hello there! Thanks all for the feedback on the last post. I appear to be gradually getting the hang of larger painting. Progress is slow but i'm getting used to the pace, it's not ready to show ...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/06/quick-update.html

So, it turns out (following on from my last post) that going bigger with a painting is a bit more complex than just making a bigger picture and filling in the gaps. It is a different kind of disc...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-all-little-things.html

Hello there! It's another sunny day here, which is great but I always seem be snowed under with some project or other when it's sunny. Lots has been happening. First of all I started on a monster...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/05/sketches-methods-thoughts-on-things.html

The painting from the last post was in preperation for a very last minute group exhibition I tagged along with. The reason I wasn't saying much was that the lovely and talented Rima Staines is ...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/04/out-in-open.html

Well amazingly I haven't been completely slacking off recently. Although the weather has been sickeningly beautiful and i've spent an hour here or there sitting on the front porch listening to a ...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/04/somewhat-furtive.html

Being leisurely isn't something which works for me. I get cranky and uptight if I have to relax. Massages occasionally make me spasm. Anyway, with all that in mind i've been relaxing the last few...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/04/leisure.html

The last few weeks haven't been particularly frantic on the art front. I've mostly been fixing up furniture, painting some silhouettes on plates to brighten up the kitchen and general housey stuf...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-much-doing.html

I kept meaning over the last few weeks to post about the death of John Martyn. He's one of my, and many other people's, all time favourite musicians. There were a few times when I could have go...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/03/things-that-have-gone.html

I packed all of my pieces up to go to Berlin tonight..It took me so long to make them, and now they're going. I feel quite....hesitant. I managed to get some pretty rubbish photos before they wen...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/03/leaving.html

I am writing this currently with a very persistent cat wedged between me and the laptop. His entire head is obscuring most of the view, so i'll try my best. Here's the full version of the Intoxi...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/03/wee-update.html

For a group show i'm taking part in I was asked to do one piece on the theme of intoxication. I decided to stick with a similar colour scheme as the fox and took the week off work to do it....I p...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/02/progress.html

I was able to scan in the fox today. It still needs some touching up - the only problem with oils and glossy glazes is that tiny particles show up in the scanner against very dark backgrounds lik...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/02/fox-scan.html

This is a really quick post to say thanks for everyone's lovely comments about the fox, it really does mean a lot to get feedback. He's pretty much dried now so he'll be scanned and photographed ...

http://little-robot.blogspot.com/2009/02/thanks.html