Work in progress...

It just became Autumn. Happy Autumn everyone :)

(lions)

New painting called: The Inside-out Crowd

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Well, everything's awful, but at least Donald Trump's going to come round and cure my autism.

When I get old I'm going to say things like "of course, you couldn't make that now", but I'm going to say it about fondly remembered sandwiches.

On this day, 30 years ago, the first series of Shooting Stars began (after a pilot the previous Christmas), and it felt like comedy shifted a bit - Vic & Bob didn't really change or water down their approach, but suddenly their strange world seems to infiltrate everyone else's.

This isn't a brand new painting, but I don't think I've ever put it on here before - anyway, it's called: Life flashed before my eyes but, mercifully, it was someone else's.

This isn't a brand new painting, but I don't think I've ever put it on here before - anyway, it's called: Life flashed before my eyes but, mercifully, it was someone else's.

Oh, this is also for sale. As ever, just let me know :)

These two paintings are for sale, btw. That first one, though, is now titled "I remember when all this was stars" If you'd like either, let me know :)

New painting called: The Inside-out Crowd

Started adding a bit more to this painting. There was going to be a bird. But it went so wrong I couldn't think of anything to do except start painting a house over it. So apparently it's a painting with a house in it now (and a tiny one on the horizon)

My eldest is 25 today. I think they are actually catching me up, somehow.

How impossible. And yet... Fifteen Storeys High Futurama The Kids in the Hall The Fast Show Monty Python's Flying Circus Nightingales Ever Decreasing Circles Kath & Kim Vic Reeves Big Night Out Taskmaster

My advice is, don't listen to a word I tell you.

No, he won't once again be "a presence". Because he died. This won't be him. Because he's dead. He died; it happens.

I just want to see a horse that looks exactly like Liam Neeson, is that *too* much to - oh wait, here's one.

1995: I bought this poster for my brother for Christmas! Such a festive gift.

There's a run-down, empty building in Chesterfield that I pass quite often. It's been several different nightclubs & it's been a cinema. But sometime in 1967 - & this is what I think of everytime I pass it - Jimi Hendrix played there. Hendrix! On the other side of that manky wall! Doing his magic!

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*banging on the studio window, trying in vain to get Paul's attention* "Paul, Paul! I've looked it up! It's 'jockeys'! The word is 'jockeys'!"

it turns out making art is spiritually and emotionally fulfilling. has anyone looked into this

Lee Madgwick's paintings show a world I would be slightly unnerved by whilst simultaneously delighted to live in.

Good morning. Bit more work done on this painting over breakfast. Still not sure what will being going on in the foreground. But something'll turn up.

This weekend I will have been a dad for a quarter of a century. This despite 2000 being about eight or nine years ago? Doesn't make any sense.

Good morning. Here's a new painting called: 'Well, well, well, if it isn't the universe'

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Quote post a female character you love

This is a brilliant article about how the Rik Mayall Nintendo ads came about. www.timeextension.com/features/how...

Listening to Hunky Dory for the first time in a few years. Side One in particular really doesn't put a foot wrong, does it. Still not very keen on the Bob Dylan one or Queen Bitch, but it's never long till The Bewlay Brothers turns up with its shadows, mystery and gravy.

Good morning. Here's a new painting called: 'Well, well, well, if it isn't the universe'

Added a bit more to these two paintings before work this morning. Clouds gathering in one, and a kind-of northern lights thing going on in the other.

Peter Falk and Patrick MacGoohan planning a Columbo episode

Just a few works-in-progress... work-in-progresses... paintings that aren't finished.

This has reminded me of something I realised yesterday, which is a rather pointless fact, but here it comes anyway: The number of days in which Louise Brooks was still alive and Running Up That Hill existed as a single is: three. I wonder if she ever heard it?

Happy 40th birthday, Hounds Of Love. I should get a fourth copy; one for each decade. A cassette or wax cylinder or whatever.

"Throne's free."

This morning's music to work to.

Stone tiger head collection

Stone tiger head collection

I like that there's the option of sound on this video, as if you'll unmute it and hear the sound of a brass band in the distance or something.

Of course, it's well over half a century since the Beatles' music was made, and yet it's somehow more horrifying that it's already 20 years since this McCartney album.

Thinking back, I should have taken that trip to Novelty Island

So far this evening I've just reposted pictures I've drawn with lions in them. I know, who do I think I am? But I like my lions and I'd hate to think anyone had missed seeing the creepy tracksuited monster cats.

A drawing of: a lion with a sandwich