Finn

From a comic strip I'm working on with writer Matthew Craig. 

This is Finn, and a friend.

Edit: Have a good look at its pristine condition, because I spilled coffee on it yesterday. I am such a tit sometimes.

Cat du Jour.

...But Now Am Found.

On Monday last I met Simon Glover, one half of the soon-to-open Found Gallery on the High Street, Dunbar. 


In between painting and putting up shelves he agreed to take a couple of the Price of Fish paintings I blogged about before, which is good, as it looks like it's going to be a very fine gallery - it's a "good space" (as they say) and there were some exciting-looking art works ready to be put on display.


The other half of the venture is Amy Christie, a very fine jeweller who does beautiful work in glass  and seems to have a healthily well-developed interest in rusty things.


The Found Gallery is opening on Saturday 9th July; a web site is on the way and I'll link to it when it's up and running.


I haven't any pictures of the gallery itself but here's a splendid poster:

Music on Monday: If This Song Was A Cyclist It Would Have Drugs In Its Wee.

It's the Tour de France. During it there will be bicycle songs. Thank God it's only three weeks.


There will be no Queen.

Rust Never Sleeps #10, and a bit of #9 again.

Three new completed canvasses. I've been dabbling and fiddling with these for a long time, and changed the whole bottom half of 177 because I felt the balance of the painting wasn't right as it was.

These are off up to a new gallery in Dunbar on Monday, so I'm hoping a couple will be on display for the opening on Saturday.

Falling Down

Done two pages of a new comic strip collaboration now, and I'm quite pleased with how it's going - which is good, coming as it does in a week when I've tried to email a new comic to see what they think of my submission now that I've waited the promised six weeks or indeed  whether they got it in the first place, and have had no emails answered.


Anyway, this is a sample panel - probably the simplest I've drawn on the two pages but I really like it. Man in long coat falling through the air.

Bicycle Touring in France

It's that time of year again.


The video's a bit ridiculous, like Michael Bay Presents: the Tour de France Route, but even an animated route map is absurdly exciting.


As Brian Blessed once said, "My God - Look at the mountain!"

I like the Tour's grading of summits, in that it is a system deliberately constructed so that it has a category of mountains so immense and difficult they are beyond categorisation. It's as if pedaling up a gigantic alp is not enough but the riders have to contemplate the philosophical conundrum at the same time. How very French.