Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Merry Christmas up a tree

Here is a Christmas tree made out of the top of a bigger tree. Monkeys are involved.
I rest my case.

Friday, 4 May 2012

Prints of Wiles

This portrait of Beethoven, called ‘Ode to Joy’, together with 29 other old drawings from when Non-Stick Plans was an unrelenting hive of honey-making activity, are now available as prints on Mysoti.com. Somebody might like them.

Sunday, 29 April 2012

Bread and buttons

I have some badges, buttons, pins, whatever they’re called, on Lollypins.com – home of “the sweetest 1 inch / 25mm pins, buttons, and badges on the net”. Not having tasted any I can’t vouch for that. Here’s the link: Here.

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Footpad's weapon

I was trying to make a crown out of a cat's paw but it ended up looking like knuckledusters. It's very difficult sometimes, you know.

Thursday, 27 October 2011

The best-laid schemes...


...o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.
- Robert Burns - ‘To a Mouse

Perhaps six months is a little excessive as a gap between blog posts. I was hit by an idea drought and thought that was it. Getting ready to throw myself off a bridge in despair, my idiot brain seems to have at last stirred, hopefully not too briefly, into action and saved me a trip to San Francisco.

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Cat got your pencil?


It’s good to be busy
but I've been neglecting
my blog duties and this
is my first post of 2011.
Sorry about that.

I’ve been trying to draw
a tabby cat but it keeps
coming out as a dog.

Sunday, 14 November 2010

Food for thought

You Are What You Eat Shirt shirt
You Are What You Eat Shirt by nonstickplans
make your own custom t-shirt at zazzle

This is a t-shirt with a drawing from September 2007, adapted into a circle for Mindfields College as a logo for a seminar or workshop on diet. Alas Mindfields has ceased trading and has morphed into the smaller scale Human Givens College, where humorous logos are spat upon and clean pastel colours and Swiss-style graphics are employed instead. With so many logos going spare I thought it was time for some recycling (with permission) and a few of them (the more interesting ones) have been Zazzled.
The .com link for this t-shirt is here, by the way, though I'm not expecting anyone to buy it. Judging by my past efforts to make money, this Zazzle lark is almost inevitably doomed to failure. It's already been plagued by technical problems. I've been reading an interesting series of blog posts by Robert Twigger about how to make money. I must study them more thoroughly - it could change my life. He's an interesting writer, by the way, and I recommend his blog, and his books.
Another by-the-way is that I've started a Wordpress blog where I'll be posting drawings from the Non-Stick Plans archive which I'm using on my Zazzle products. I realise I'm occasionally doing that here too, but over on Wordpress I'm posting them big enough to see. Surely a good reason to visit. Ok, suit yourself.

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Emile Zola in his J'Accuzzi


This bad literary pun is a remnant from my Paris Fraud series from February 2009 (starting here), which I never drew up. Having drawn it up I now realise that it's hardly an original bad literary pun as there are 869 results for it on Google. It's obvious when you think about it, but I may as well post it now I've drawn it up - that will make it a round number.