Saturday 28 February 2009

Final Hawaii strip

Here's the whole strip, given the technicolor treatment from it's cocreator Paul O'Connell

Tuesday 24 February 2009

Blues #2: Leroy Carr


In all the photos I could find of this smooth blues pianist he's always giving a big laid back grin, which doesn't really reflect the mood of some of his classics, so here's hopefully what he looks like the rest of the time...

Hula baby!

Preparation for this comic strip involved watching Elvis's Blue Hawaii, a film with a similar feel to "Can't wait for tommorow" another collaboration with Paul O'Connell...

Monday 16 February 2009

Mountains!

This was a card for my brother in law, who took me up my first munro in Scotland and was celebrating his half century the other day

Tuesday 10 February 2009

pretty polly

Design for a birthday card

Sunday 1 February 2009

Blues portraits




For the last few years I've kept meaning to draw some portraits of blues artists. A friend recently asked for a pic of Mississippi Fred McDowell, the master blues slide player. Here is a cartoonish attempt and maybe the start of a series of artists...