This always happens when I make bread.
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Andrew was beginning to suspect the dough had risen for long enough.
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After meeting Hoover, the big male hippo at Whipsnade Zoo, personally last year, I decided I needed to branch out from drawing and painting hippos, and get on with making them in 3D, preferably with moving parts. The (very short) movie can be found on YouTube.
At last I’ve discovered the true purpose of Lego!
Tech note: I’m using a gazillion “dark bluish grey” bricks, and the Spots-not-on-top (SNOT! I kid you not) technique. The upper jaw is much too heavy to lift alone, so the lower jaw is weighted and acts as a counterbalance (they are operated via 2 meshed 16-tooth gears, one with a lift-arm for each jaw.) Even then, and geared down, the old 1980s Lego electric motor is having a difficult time. Note also the muck-spreader on the back!
It’s been really busy here, which is why I haven’t been posting much!
First there was the book (which you saw); and then Karen did her new show (and I made all the scenery); and now I’m doing Artweeks.
Artweeks is an Oxford/Oxfordshire festival, in which hundreds of artists open their studios to visitors for a few days.
If you’re in the area, do come and see the hippos!
My Artweeks gallery gives some idea of what I’m showing.
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Andrew and his hippo-shaped Artweeks sign in the driveway.
Here’s my first ever herd of gingerbread hippopotamuses.
(Apologies for the site being down for a few days with hardware trouble. It’s solved for the moment.)
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Hippos made from gingerbread with their biscuit cutter.
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Hippos spell out a message in semaphore
A little doggerel for you.
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A girl in pink, spotted pyjamas
Said for breakfast she'd like some bananas.
But when she came near
They said that "We fear
The whole lot were scoffed by iguanas."
Said for breakfast she'd like some bananas.
But when she came near
They said that "We fear
The whole lot were scoffed by iguanas."
Sometimes the things that arrive in the sketchbook are best not explained.
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woman sunflower black-eyed susan frog elephant hawk-moth caterpillar badger trumpet watering can cosmos murano glass elizabethan ruff robin crest fence
We’ve just been on holiday for a week in Northern Norway with some friends, well inside the arctic circle. We were lucky enough to see the Aurora on four nights. It really is very beautiful there. The dog sledging was horrifically expensive (actually, so was everything.)
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Cheap dog sledging -- a woman is pulled in a wheeled cart, by a collection of dogs of vastly mismatched sizes. The alpha dog has stopped to relieve himself by a sign saying "No Dogs."
Winter greetings to all my readers, and non-readers too. Wishing you all a happy and healthy year ahead!
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Woman and polar bear dance in the snow
This wonderful cartoon of my Cartooning Workshop yesterday was made by (and republished by kind permission of) the talented Imogen Foxell (http://www.imogenfoxell.com) I’m the one in green on the left. The workshop was at the South Oxford Community Centre, and part of Oxford’s contribution to The Big Draw national drawing event. I had a lot of fun leading a set of interactive drawing games involving speed drawing and exaggeration to very enthusiastic participants. I’m pretty sure they had a lot of fun too.