Sebastian and Matteo now in the online shop. First time available for sale online. Find them at shop.nik.uk

New picture: 84,000 triangles, four pens, two colours, three failed attempts, and one brilliant pose from @sputnikboy.bsky.social

A new portrait of @thenakedbro3.bsky.social who posed a few weeks ago, composed entirely of short vertical lines drawn with a black Pilot rollerball pen. There’s a red layer beneath the black but the match is so close I may as well have not bothered.

386 straightish lines drawn with a blue Pilot rollerball

Here's Kramer holding with one of my drawings of himself. I was lucky enough to meet him earlier this week when he was visiting from the US, so I brought along one of the pictures that he posed for remotely about three years ago. As is often the case it's drawn with two continuous lines on A1 paper.

A drawing of Kramer on A1 paper. This was done with two Bic Biros: one blue and one light blue, each tracing a single unbroken line through thousands of spirals across the page.

A portrait of Jonathan composed of (roughly) 60,000 vertical lines, each drawn using a blue Pilot rollerball pen on A2 paper. Jonathan posed remotely and as with most of my work the image data was all organised on a spreadsheet for processing rather than an image editing app. Close-up to follow...

One of your things I like about living here is the street signs.

A portrait of @thenakedbro3.bsky.social who posed remotely for me a couple of weeks ago. Drawn using two unbroken lines through thousands of spirals - one using a blue Bic Biro and one a black Bic Biro. I'll link a couple of detail shots.

A couple of sketches from last night’s class. Both charcoal on paper.

A sketchy portrait drawn on A3 using Pilot rollerball pens.

A drawing of Andrew made entirely of circles, based on a picture from an online posing session. The finished picture is A1 and it’s drawn on white paper using two Pilot ball pens. Andrew isn’t on Bluesky.

Just delivered this one to the gallery. It's a space invader made using 168 British postage stamps (1st class for the dark background and 5p for the lighter areas). If you're close to Chelmsford, it'll be on sale at Artists at the Meadows from next week. Come and take a look.

Love a train trip.

It took a loooong time to sort and mount all of these tubes of paint. Happy with the result though. Technically my first artwork on oils.

A sketch of Ryan from last night. Charcoal on sugar paper.

Seconding this, as you also get to see my cat.

Advent calendars filled with pretty drawings > advent calendars filled with chocolate. Fact.

If you were wondering why I’m not yet in bed…

Work in progress…

Put this one up for sale today. If you like it, and you're anywhere near Chelmsford, you'll find it in Artists at the Meadows. It's made up of thousands of individual shapes, drawn in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black Bic Biros. I'll put a detail shot in the first reply.

London, she wet

I'm experimenting with vertical fragments, colour, and distortion.

Mars came to Chelmsford Cathedral. I went to Chelmsford Cathedral to meet it.

Should have spent less time on the eyes and more on the rest of the face. A little sketch from last night.

A close-up of my latest piece, which is an A1 portrait made up entirely of circles drawn using Bic Biros.

Latest piece: an A1 portrait made entirely of circles drawn using red and black Bic Biros.

Lots and lots of red and black circles drawn using Bic Biro.

A load of hexagons drawn using blue and black Bic Biros.

Kylie Minogue at the O2, London, 2018

A bit of sketching from last night. Charcoal on paper. A2.

Work in progress. This poor Bic fineliner has been at it for four hours and it’s about 10% of the way through this picture. I reckon it’s going to take until the end of the week to finish.

I don’t usually take pictures of road signs, but this one was a bit special.

Got wet in Brussels

Found a statue. Took a selfie.

Went to a museum. Took a selfie.

Sketching this lovely pose from @hockneyspool.bsky.social in Rebelle 8

A new laser cut landscape. This one is A3, and made of 14 birch panels painted various shades of red and white. I originally painted it shades of red and yellow but the mid-tones were a horrible peachy colour that HAD to go.

Two identical poses from @dekanedun.bsky.social that I cut as jigsaws, then switched the pieces between them

Sketching Tracey last night.

New 3D wooden landscape: After the tide goes out. Five layers of birch panel, laser cut, painted, and varnished.

A work in progress sitting in a sunny window so I can see how / where it catches the light. Eight birch sheets, laser cut fixed with 8mm bolts, nuts, and washers. It still needs painting.

Just finished this one called A Day at the Beach. It’s eight layers of laser cut birch wood, painted and bolted.

Working on something different today. Wood.

Two identical poses from Alfonso plotted on top of each other. Dressed in the red pose (horizontal lines) and nude in the black pose (vertical lines). Drawn with Pilot rollerballs on A1 paper. Thanks to @alfonsoibato.com for posing.

This is a spreadsheet. Created in LibreOffice Calc and drawn using two Pilot rollerballs on A2.

Sketched Ryan last night. Here are his shadows.

An A1 picture of @dekanedun.bsky.social today, drawn using two unbroken lines: one in red and one in black, both from Bic Biros.

White on black is always tricky, as demonstrated by the uneven ink take up, but @jamesbrockie.bsky.social was kind enough to say I could use his self portrait for reference. So, here’s a single, unbroken line on black paper.

New work, on sale soon. A knot of pipes, drawn with a black Pilot rollerball.