Ripley from next door practising tightrope walking in the back garden #caturday #catsofinstagram #opticalillusion

Biscuit couldn't get the lids off his stabilo pens last night so he made himself into a new art installation instead #caturday #catsofbluesky

First day of the new V&A storehouse Stratford. It's more than a bit good That's me in the blue #V&Astorehouse #V&A

Freddie enjoying watching Springwatch this evening #springwatch

The boys, on guard this morning #caturday

Copper and concrete #sculpture #metalsculpture

Freddie having a little sleep #catsofbluesky

I've been experimenting with making metal armatures, bunging lumps of air dry clay onto them then wrapping it all in modroc #sculpture

I've been putting a few bends into some steel rods and brazing them into some standalone builds. This is one view of one of them #metalsculpture #sculpture

A couple of days late for #nationalunicornday. Doesn't really matter though, I'm not expecting a visit from the Unicorn Enforcement Agency anytime soon #unicorn #illustratorsofbluesky

I restored and repainted the #weathervane from my parents' 1980s #allotment a couple of years ago. This winter's storms took it down but today it's mended and back up in the sun on the shed roof #continuity #family #gold #cockerel

A bit of idle sketchbookery I thought I'd line the original sketchbook page in Affinity then bung a quick smidge of colour and texture behind it #sketchbook #pattern

Partial eclipse now, don't look directly at the sun! i) with pinhole in card ii) with welding goggles over lens, you can see the eclipsed sun shape mirrored below the actual sun #partialeclipse #solareclipse

On the way home from work last night #neighbourhoodwatch #windowkitty #catsofbluesky

It's tree pruning weekend which means we have fresh sticks. So this afternoon, as I'm currently reading Blood Meridian, I made this nihilistic wild westerner. I finished him just in time to take the snap as the sun went down #sculpture #wood #metal #cats #whiskers#caturday #cowboyhat

Biscuit in the bath #everystepyoutake #catsofbluesky

New wire sculpture #sculpture #wiresculpture

Four views of the same #sculpture. Spot welded 2.6mm steel #metalsculpture

Sadly, #animalalphabets ends this week Much of the joy of the twitter drawing challenges was their lovely supportive community. My thanks & best wishes to everyone who both had fun & made it fun. Thought this image is from Picture Book Characters was sorta topical #insaneOrangeMonarch

Expanded the wishbone ring theme this weekend. Used much bigger 4x1.5mm D-shape silver wire this time so had to amend my process. Had enough supplies to make this stacked double ring combo #jewellery #silverring

Rather enjoyed making this little silver wishbone ring at the weekend #jewellery

New sculpture: 3.2mm brazed mild steel rod, cement base #sculpture #metalsculpture

Biscuit, king of the sink Everyday is #caturday

This fellow was part of my degree show back in the Olden Days. Having spent quite a long while hibernating in a drawer, it's lovely to have him back up on the wall in the living room #illustratorsofbluesky #illustration

A new post-it note drawing: PNSQ_013-CN107 7.5 x 7.5mm It's a bit scruffy but I'm not making these often enough #postitnote #unipin #fineliner

Biscuit's been behaving a bit suspiciously since he enrolled on that evening class course in undercover surveillance

A bit of spot welding 4mm and 5mm steel rod 1mm steel sheet Height 36cm #sculpture #metalsculpture

A ring I made at New Year. I'd been looking at Roman/Greek/Celtic jewellery and wanted it to have the feel of something from that era so I gave it a bit of hammer to give it a slightly irregular texture. The stone is a brazilian #tourmaline. #jewellery #jewellerystudent #silver #silverjewellery

Scaling up a bit for a few weeks: rough offcuts of aluminium sheet and pop rivets. Stand is spot welded sheet steel #sculpture #aluminium

Sorta pleased with how this image has become my new glasses case design. It's also easier to find than the old regular black case #glassescase

I hadn't balanced anything for a while so I collected together a few little things that were knocking around the house and piled them up on top of each other #rockbalancing #catswhiskers

Freddie and Biscuit wondering whether it's going to stop raining soon

My top nine posts over on Instagram this past year are, for the first time in a while, mainly drawings #artvsartist #topnine #topnine2024

Festive greetings fellow travellers 🌲 #merrychristmas #happyholidays #blueskychristmas

This little fellow has just fledged and found his new forever home north of the border #makers #makersofbluesky

The new cat in the back garden seems to know exactly how to pose properly for a photo #catsofbluesky #cats

Clytemnestra running a bath for Agamemnon on his return from Troy: greek mythology advent day 15 #illo_advent #advent2024 #advent #adventcalendar #greekmythology #clytemnestra #agamemnon #troy #aeschylus

Freddie cosplaying that he's a hipster cat in a 1940s film noir #caturday #catsofbluesky

Day 10 of those advent mythology drawings Aphrodite's chariot was pulled by sparrows but, as this is an advent series, I've given her a festive robin instead #illo_advent #advent2024 #adventcalendar #advent #greekmythology #aphrodite #robin

Freddie contemplating the nature of existence. Or possibly not #cats #catsofbluesky #deepthought

#illo_advent Day 7: We're now in the House of Atreus, and Thyestes is eating a meal, a succulent barbecue meal Days 3 to 6 seem to have got buried under a pile of other stuff but Day 7 continues our ancient Greece theme #advent #advent2024 #ancientgreece #thyestes

Day 2: Meanwhile, back on Crete, the Minotaur is letting King Minos beat him at minigolf #illo_advent #advent #advent2024 #adventcalendar

You never know what lurks under blue skies - I mean sea... #art #kraken

I've not done any illustration challenges for years. Is #illo_advent still a thing? I saw Drew and Ian had posted lovely advent images so I thought I might give it a go. Here's Advent Day 01 #advent #advent2024

Cat scan #catsofbluesky

Two towers and low tide on the Thames #bluesky #rockbalancing #thames #shard

Taking the pet creature for an evening walk

This is Biscuit. He's very friendly. He likes eating and sleeping

Yesterday's new copper wire sculpture CS-1007

Freddie on the shed roof #catsofbluesky #bluesky