Here’s a drawing I did over the weekend.

(Note to Neil-all images at 72 dpi -saved for web . Hardly any calories at all.)

Tomorrow I’m hoping to purchase a plastic crow for my desk following a request I put out on Facebook. My artist mate Paul Bommer sent me a photo of a corvid he’d seen in a shop window only a stone’s throw away from Liverpool Street Station, London. At first I thought he’d sent me a photo of a flying cat however once I turned my mobile ‘phone the other way around and put on my reading glasses I was instantly smitten. He’s a beauty. My aunt once had a one legged pet crow called ‘Coco’. Quite a character he was. Several people have offered to send me crows from their garden and such like but there are a murder of them hanging about here in the suburbs. They are tricky to photograph, huffing away indignantly on my every approach. Fine creatures indeed. I’d quite like a stuffed rook. Anyone?

On Saturday 31st October 2009, I’m working alongside artists:
Rosie Brooks
Adam Dant
The Surreal McCoy

You’ll find us inside the vaulted arches at The Great Hall Vinopolis, Southwark, London.
Click below for further details:
DRAWN TO BANKSIDE PROGRAMME:
Campaign for Drawing

Am away in Bourgogne, France, on an artists’ retreat staying in a chateau surrounded by several cocks acting as security guards. I thought I’d spend the week drawing these formidable indignant creatures. The sketch was photographed using my digital camera, the images were then fed into Photoshop.

Here’s the fancy version: